The SocketScan S550 contactless/wireless NFC reader designed for membership card reading and writing functions has become the first contactless reader to achieve CR12 certification from the NFC forum Certification Program. This ensures that the S550 can read all NFC Forum compliant tags.

Mike McCamon, the executive director of the NFC forum said that NFC Forum Certification demonstrates to customers, consumers and partners that a company values product quality and improving the customer experience.

Socket Mobile claim that the S550 is built for painless integration into apps and fact that the device is now Apple Pay, Google Pay and NFC Forum certified means that it is the idea reader for many loyalty, closed loop payment systems, age verification or vaccine passport systems. Their aim has been to remove complexity for application developers allowing third parties to take advantage of the customer experience that the certifications bring.

Achieving NFC Forum certification is a key milestone in the NFC journey, as it guarantees reader/tag compatibility in a highly secure but complex NFC ecosystem. The combination of Socket’s NFC hardware and CaptureSDK tools, enables our application partners to avoid the complexity and focus on using NFC data to enhance their application. Our application partners will now have the ability to support a host of NFC centric interactions, such as the tap of a phone with a mobile driver’s license for fast, simple and secure electronic age verification, replacing the time consuming and unreliable visual verification system mostly used today

Dave Holmes, Chief Business Officer at Socket Mobile

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