A Middleware Application Framework For Academic Institution Services Utilizing Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology

摘要

In an academic institution environment, students and employees need to wait for a long time for their transactions to be processed especially during payment and assessment. In this study, a middleware application had been developed for academic institution services utilizing Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Users of this application need to load up their NFC-enabled ID card and just simply tap the loaded card to the NFC reader attached to the computer terminal upon paying of food bought at the academic institution's cafeteria, thus, reduced contact time for payment transaction. The loading and reloading of NFC-enabled ID card is also done in the academic institution's cafeteria. In addition, a mobile application was also developed in this study in order for the parents of the user to download such application in their android smartphone to monitor the payment and load transactions of the users. Based on the evaluation results, it had been found out that NFC middleware and mobile application had positive impact in terms of fast payment transaction.