Mobile Distillery and Stollmann in NFC Partnership

Mobile Distillery, which supplies an NFC (Near Field Communications) porting platform for NFC-embedded and NFC-enabled phones, and Stollmann, which specialises in portable, modular protocol stacks for NFC, ISDN and Bluetooth, which can be used in mobile phones, embedded and PC-based devices, have revealed that they are cooperating to ease the adoption of NFC technology.
The companies note that NFC has two contrasting reputations. One for being a technology that will revolutionize the way that consumers will use electronic devices, particularly mobile phones; the other that the industry forecasts for start of the ‘NFC revolution’ have been pushed out several times. All the numerous trials worldwide have returned unanimous and enthusiastic consumer acceptance, yet much of the talk in the NFC sector today is about how the ecosystem can work together to launch mainstream consumer services.
This is where the association between the Mobile Distillery and Stollmann cooperation comes into play. Developers writing applications using the Celsius framework will benefit from time saved on creating their applications and ease-of-use when porting Stollmann’s stacks across mobile devices.
“During conversations at previous NFC events, we realized that we were both working on a common goal, but at different levels of the software architecture,” says Mobile Distillery CEO, Vincent Berge. “Both of us are working to ease the use of NFC technology by smoothing out the difference in hardware or software implementations. By coordinating our research and development efforts, we can ensure that an application using NFC could be ported with the maximum reliability and minimum effort across a large number of hardware platforms.”
For Stollmann, CEO Christian Lührs says:
“We have been involved in embedded software for almost 30 years and we know that non-compatibility, despite the existence of standards, has seriously limited the domains of application and the quality of the user experience in technologies such as Bluetooth. “Our cross-platform NFC stack removes this blocking point and allows device manufacturers to concentrate on their core business.”