NFC Forum Type Tags
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Description
NFC Forum Type Tags White Paper V1.0
Technical and marketing people
The NFC Forum is an industry consortium to further develop and
improve the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. NFC is a
new short range wireless connectivity technology that evolved from a
combination of existing contactless identification and interconnection
technologies. NFC enables intuitive and easy to use consumer
devices interactions.
Based on NFC the NFC Forum has created the NFC Data Exchange
Format (NDEF) and the NFC Forum Type Tag Operation. NDEF is a
data format to encapsulate and identify application data that is
exchanged between NFC enabled devices. A type of such device is
the NFC Forum Type Tag. The Type Tags are contactless cards
based on currently available products capable to store NDEF
formatted data.
NDEF and the NFC Forum Type Tag Operation allow new kind of
touch based applications: Smart Poster, automatic wireless
communication configuration (e.g. Bluetooth pairing), electronic
business card exchange, etc. Such applications can be implemented
using already available in the market NFC enabled tag products:
MIFARE Ultralight, MIFARE Ultralight C, MIFARE DESFire,
SmartMX, Innovision Topaz, and Sony FeliCa.
This document describes the NFC Forum, NDEF, the NFC Forum
Type Tag Operation, the NFC enabled tag products, and several use
cases related to the NFC Forum Type Tag Operation. Finally the
Type MIFARE Classic Tag Operation based on the NXP family
products MIFARE Classic 1k/4k/Mini is also described.
MIFARE, DESFire, SmartMX and JCOP are registered trademarks of
NXP B.V.
Java and Java Card are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
FeliCa is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
NFC Forum and the NFC Forum logo are trademarks or service
marks of the Near Field Communication Forum in the United States
and in other countries.
Other product and company names mentioned herein may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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1.0
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Approved
Description
Initial Version
Date
2009/04/01
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TABLE OF CONTENT
1.
Introduction .............................................................................................................................5
1.1 References ........................................................................................................................5
1.2 Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................7
2. NFC Forum ..............................................................................................................................8
2.1 The NFC Forum Device ....................................................................................................8
2.2 The NFC Forum Device in Reader/Writer Operating Mode ..............................................9
2.3 The NFC Forum Tag .......................................................................................................10
3. Storage of Application Data.................................................................................................10
3.1 The Application Data .......................................................................................................11
3.2 NDEF...............................................................................................................................11
3.3 The NFC Forum Type Tag Platform................................................................................12
3.4 The Product (NFC Forum Tag) .......................................................................................13
4. Use Cases..............................................................................................................................15
4.1 Smart Poster Use Case...................................................................................................15
4.2 Handover Use Case ........................................................................................................15
4.3 vCard Use Case ..............................................................................................................15
4.4 URL Use Case ................................................................................................................15
4.5 SMS Use Case................................................................................................................16
4.6 Call Request Use Case ...................................................................................................16
5. Use Cases vs. Products .......................................................................................................17
6. Disclaimers............................................................................................................................18
Appendix A. NXP Specific Type Tag Platform........................................................................19
A.1 The Product (NXP Specific Type Tag) ............................................................................20
A.2 Use Cases vs. Products ..................................................................................................22
Appendix B. Best Practices .....................................................................................................23
B.1 Formatting procedure during the Tag’s first use..............................................................23
B.2 Formatting procedure during Tag Production..................................................................24
B.3 Samples ..........................................................................................................................24
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Figure 1 - NFC Forum Device Architecture in Reader/Writer Operating Mode. The Protocol Stack
elements in the gray rectangles are the ones described by this document. ......................................... 9
Figure 2 - Overview of the Application Data, NDEF, the NFC Forum Type Tag Platform and the
Product................................................................................................................................................ 10
Figure 3 - NDEF Message. ................................................................................................................. 11
Figure 4 - NFC Forum Device Architecture in Reader/Writer Operating Mode................................... 19
Table 1 - Referenced documents.......................................................................................................... 5
Table 2 - Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................... 7
Table 3 - Communication links (indicated with “ ”) between an NFC Forum Devices and either an
NFC Forum Device, NFC Forum Tag or a Reader/Writer Terminal...................................................... 8
Table 4 - NFC Forum Type Tag Platforms and related products. ....................................................... 13
Table 5 - Comparison of the different products compatible with the NFC Forum (Type Tag) Platforms.
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Table 6 - Comparisons between Use Cases and NFC Forum Type Tag Platforms compatible
Products.............................................................................................................................................. 17
Table 7 - NXP Specific Type Tag Platform and related products........................................................ 20
Table 8 - Comparison of the different products compatible with the NFC Forum (Type Tag) Platforms
and the NXP Specific (Type Tag) Platform. ........................................................................................ 21
Table 9 - Comparisons between Use Cases and NFC Forum Type Tag Platforms and NXP Type Tag
Platform compatible Products. ............................................................................................................ 22
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INTRODUCTION
This white paper gives a technical introduction to the NFC Forum Type Tags, the use
cases where these devices can be applied and a comparison of currently available
products.
The document consists of the following chapters:
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Chapter 2 describes the NFC Forum consortium, the NFC Forum device, and
the NFC Forum Tag,
Chapter 3 describes the storage of application data into the NFC Forum Type
Tag platform and the NXP specific Type Tag platform,
Chapter 4 describes several common use cases such as Smart Poster,
Handover, vCard, URL, SMS and Call request,
Chapter 5 compares based on the use cases of chapter 4 several NFC Forum
tag products,
Appendix A describes the NXP Type Tag Platform based on MIFARE Classic
1K/4K/mini, and
Appendix B describes best practices.
1.1 References
The following Table 1 contains referenced documents.
Table 1 - Referenced documents.
Reference
[HANDOVER]
Document
Connection Handover, Candidate Technical Specification, NFC
Forum, Connection Handover 1.0, April 14, 2008 (downloadable
from
www.nfc-forum.org/specs/)
NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF), Technical Specification, NFC
Forum, Revision 1.0, July 24, 2006 (downloadable from
www.nfc-
forum.org/specs/)
www.nfc-forum.org
NFC Record Type Definition (RTD), Technical Specification, NFC
Forum, RTD 1.0, July 24, 2006 (downloadable from
www.nfc-
forum.org/specs/)
ISO/IEC 18092:2004, Information technology –
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems –
Near Field Communication – Interface and Protocol (NFCIP-1)
MF1 IC S50, Functional Specification, DocNo. 1052 (downloadable
from
http://www.nxp.com/products/identification/MIFARE/classic/
see “MF1 ICS50 Functional Specification (350kB)”)
[NDEF]
[NFC FORUM]
[NFC RTD]
[NFCIP-1]
[NXP 1K]
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