title: Everyday NFC Second Edition: Near Field Communication Explained
author:  Hsuan-hua Chang 
description: Hsuan-hua Chang is a consultant, coach, writer and speaker. She has over 20 years of experience in Wireless technology as a software engineer/developer, architect/product manager and marketing product manager. Her focus is on NFC, Big Data and Cloud Computing. Hsuan-hua has been coaching executives and entrepreneurs since 2004 as a certified leadership coach. She empowers business leaders through the use of technology and leadership development. Her brand is Leaders Empower Leaders . She holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and a Leadership MBA. The combination of her enterprise technology experience, with professional business coaching, results in a unique perspective and approach that explores business opportunities in technology. Learn more about Hsuan-hua at: www.linkedin.com/in/hsuanhuachang and www.coachseattle.com
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  # Beginning NFC
  
  ## Near Field Communication with Arduino, Android, and PhoneGap
  
  ### Tom Igoe
  
  ### Don Coleman
  
  ### Brian Jepson
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dedication
  
  This book is dedicated to Red Burns.
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 1. Introduction
  
  This book started life innocently enough in an email from Brian to Tom in
  March 2011. Brian thought it would be a good idea to add a couple of lines to
  the second edition of another book about near field communication, _[Making
  Things Talk](http://oreil.ly/igoe-making)_ , which we were working on at the
  time. There was already a chapter on radio frequency identification (RFID) in
  the book, so how hard could it be? Two and a half years later, we’ve learned a
  lot about NFC along the way and picked up an excellent and knowledgeable
  collaborator, Don Coleman, author of the NFC plug-in for PhoneGap.
  
  Even though NFC has a lot of potential, most of the material written about it
  so far hasn’t been written for the casual programmer. E