Near field communication in orienteering

Near Field Communication (NFC) – radio-based communication technology that is rapidly gaining in popularity, although its potential is still not fully utilized. The aim of this thesis is to improve orienteering sports using NFC technology. Firstly, in this final work orienteering sport is analysed. It is identified how punching happens at control points and what are the main problems of orienteering sports. Secondly, operating principles of the technology, usage perspectives at the present and in the future as well as its advantages and disadvantages are identified. Further, analysis of the results of the carried out survey and overview of already created NFC orienteering systems are performed to determine current situation in orienteering. Finally, NFC advantages and disadvantages for orienteering are listed. The final section is devoted to the improvement of current state of orienteering sports – the requirements for the new NFC orienteering system are raised, different possible system architectures are compared, the most appropriate one is chosen and its prototype is created