Hi jeremy882,
Thanks for your response.
There are many industrial use cases for NFG tag:
- Upgrade device firmware using the phone/tablet connection.
- Identify breakdown issue and bring the appropriate replacements.
- Check warranty or product registration.
- Read product diagnostics before powering up the machinery.
- Easily obtain product serial numbers, firmware version, repair history.
- Error logs or activity statistics can be read even when the device is completely dead and does not boot up anymore.
I used NFC tag in one of my application where it was needed to modify threshold of a sensor without reprogramming the firmware or touching the board (contactless). Using a tag writer the NDEF record on the tag is modified and the MCU reads the new value from the NFC Tag (connected through serial I2C interface).
Since this development board is very powerful so there are possibilities that it will be used in industrial as well as home-automation system and NFC will enable “tap-and-go” connectivity typically for commissioning a new device in those environments.
Also, a bit extra cost to implement USB 3.0 would give an edge to the board since many Linux development boards coming with USB 3.0 to take advantage of faster data transfer with external storage and adding Neural accelerators.