NFC stands for Near-field communication. It is a set of communication protocols that enable two electronic devices, one of which is usually a portable device such as a smartphone or NFC card, to establish communication by bringing them within a small distance of each other.
GoBright users can either use a supported NFC card or their smartphone if NFC is supported. To configure and use NFC the following items are required:
- NFC Card
- NFC Reader
Enable the NFC module
In order to use the NFC options for your GoBright environment, you must first activate the NFC Options. You can do this by selecting General Settings in the Settings tab and then check Enable NFC options.
- Log in to the GoBright portal with your manager account
- Choose Settings > General
- Enable NFC Options by ticking the box
- Press Save to complete
Configure NFC per user
Each NFC chip has a unique ID containing (e.g. 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00). This ID needs to be configured to a GoBright user within the User tab of the portal.
When the NFC ID of a user is known in Active Directory, you can use the Active Directory synchronization to assign the NFC Identifier for each user automatically.
- Log in to the GoBright portal with your manager account
- Choose Settings > Users
- Enter the ID in NFC identifier
- Use the Show NFC identifier button to check the ID
- Press Save to complete
Authentication using a NFC card reader
Now that a NFC card has been linked to the user he or she will be able to authenticate by holding the card or smartphone against a NFC reader. Note that the Connect also has a build-in NFC reader that is used to for authentication.
Supported NFC Protocols
NFC has a wide range of protocols and not all of them are supported by the ProDVX card reader. To check whether the NFC card is supported the following steps can be taken:
- Go to a GoBright device with a NFC reader attached to it.
- Close the GoBright app by exiting the app through the kiosk mode
- Start the browser and go to http://install.brightbooking.eu/tools/
- Install the ‘NFC tools’ app
- Hold your NFC card against the reader, the app will display the NFC ID
If no ID is displayed or an error occurs the NFC card is not supported by the ProDVX card reader.
NFC ID unknown in the Active Directory
When the NFC ID of a user is unknown in the Active Directory, the steps above can be used to find the NFC ID's.