3.3 Description of HF RFID standards
High frequency (HF) vicinity RFID communication is specified by ISO 15693, ISO 14443
standards. The first one, targeted for tags containing only ID and becoming popular for single
use transport tickets is out of the project focus. ISO 14443A corresponds to tag brand Mifare
from NXP/Philips most widely used in the world. The conventional access speed is 106kbps,
modulation schema is 100% ASK, Miller encoding. Sony developed competitive IC under
brand FeliCa working at 212kbps 10% ASK modulation depth with Manchester encoding.
Both modulation schema support speeds up to 1 Mbps, access range for handheld devices is
2-5 cm due the power supply limits. FeliCa (not ISO standardized) is widely used in Far-East.
The most of reader ICs support both standards, meaning devices bought in Japan should work
in Europe with European ISO14443A tags. The same IC can read ISO 15693 tags as well,
making 13.56MHz RFID technology extremely flexible and universal.
Joint venture between NXP and Sony was established in 2007 to produce universal chips,
showing continuation of related technology development around the world for the next years.
Mifare is the most widely installed contactless smart card (technically RFID tag with large
memory and secure microcontroller) technology in the world with about 1.2 billion smart card
chips and more than seven million reader modules sold (Contactless News, 2006). FeliCa ICs
shipment was 170 million units in 2006 and 30 million of these are mobile FeliCa chips for use in
mobile phones (osaifu-keytai
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) in Japan. From instrumentation point of view those phones should
be compatible with proposed SMARTMUSEUM tag access solution. Based on information of
NTT DoCoMo there were over 200000 contactless payment terminals installed in Japan (Sept.
2007) and 3.7 Milions of DCMX service subscribers. The number of RFID based contactless
payment service subscribers increased 5 times in one year
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. Booming of cellular RFID technology
can be expected in Europe as well creating technological base for wide usage of
SMARTMUSEUM solution.
3.4 HF RFID Tag selection
The security features of HF tag access are not relevant in the present project context. The most
essential parameter for tags to be selected is data area. Suitable tags for SMARTMUSEUM
include:
1. ISO14443-A, NXP Mifare Standard 1k tags with total memory size of 1 kbyte, writable
memory 720 characters
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,
2. ISO14443-A, NXP Mifare Standard 4k tags with total user memory size of 3480 bytes
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3. ISO14443-A, NXP Mifare DESfire tags with total writable memory size of 7 kbytes
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4. It is recommended to use tags compatible with NFC Forum 1 specification, e.g. Topaz,
Jewel tags from Innovision
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. So far the largest tags available contain 96 bytes of
rewritable and 6 bytes of OTP memory that is insufficient for most of SMARTMUSEUM
applications.
7 http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/osaifu/index.html
8 http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/corporate/ir/binary/pdf/library/presentation/080108/all_e.pdf
9 http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download/other/identification/M001053_MF1ICS50_rev5_3.pdf
10 http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download/other/identification/M043541_MF1ICS70_Fspec_rev4_1.pdf
11 http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download/datasheets/MF3ICD8101_SDS_N_1.pdf
12 http://www.innovision-group.com/products.php
Grant Agreement Number: FP7-216923
Acronym: SMARTMUSEUM
Project title: Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange
Platform
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