SD card turns PDAs, smartphones into RFID terminals

9 August 2006 Electronics Technology

ACG Identification Technologies, a component and technology supplier in the smartcard and RFID markets, has announced the availability of two new readers that interfaces with mobile phones.

The Wireless Dynamics SDiD cards are designed to plug into any mobile phone, PDA or handheld device with a secure digital (SD) slot. The SDiD cards offer read/write RFID capabilities for portable devices.

The SDiD 1010 card supports the Philips Mifare as well as the NFC peer-to-peer protocols and is suited for applications like contactless payments and accessing product, entertainment and customer loyalty information. Transaction or tag data can be processed through mobile connections such as WiFi, CDMA, GSM or Bluetooth connections associated with the portable device.

The SDiD 1020 card is compliant with ISO 14443A, ISO 14443B and ISO 15693 standards and supports Mifare, I-Code and Tag-it chips. Applications include seamless management solutions for realtime inventory, asset and document tracking, logistics, process control and location-based services. RFID tag information can be communicated in realtime to the enterprise database through mobile connections such as WiFi, CDMA, GSM or Bluetooth connection associated with the portable device.

For both models there are Software Development kits containing an SDiD card, two RFID cards and a CD with binaries, header files, drivers, demo applications and sample applications with full source code. The SDK includes a powerful, yet straight forward Application Program Interface (API), which reduces the learning curve and simplifies the overall development process to launch an RFID or contactless application.

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