What sort of range ?
NFC tends to only be maybe 50mm or less. How this works will likely depend on your phone and the controll it it let you have over the NFC chips.
I could see BT working with a “Paired” device. just like your phone auto connects to the car kit when within range.
While I have not yet played with BT etc, I suspect you can just use something like and ESP32 with BT enabled to paired to your phone ???