NXP's MIFARE® is the best-recognized standard in the world, known for its wide range of products for non-contact RFID contactless communication in the high frequency band 13.56MHz up to a read / write distance of 10cm (4 inches). By already supporting over 260 million readers and over 10 billion contactless cards, MIFARE® products are proven and more reliable than any other interface technology on the market. The huge database of operating and installed MIFARE® applications allows integrators to expand their offer while reducing overall costs and increasing user convenience.
MIFARE® products comply with the international ISO / IEC 14443 standard, which is used in over 80% of all contactless cards in the world. The MIFARE® product families provide backward compatibility so that existing infrastructure can be seamlessly moved to a higher level of security or to increase its functionality.
MIFARE® transponders are completely passive - they do not have their own power source, drawing energy from the reader as a result of electromagnetic induction. Retention or the validity of data saved on MIFARE® systems can be up to 10 years.
The MIFARE® standard is divided into:
MIFARE® Ultralight
The MIFARE® Ultralight family of products currently consists of three models that provide system integrators with maximum flexibility to create complete system solutions such as time, zone or single tickets. Integrators can take advantage of the benefits of one-time tickets by properly using one-time OTP (One-Time-Programmable) programming memory in combination with a unique ISO identifier (UID) on a secure infrastructure.
Tickets based on the NXP MIFARE® Ultralight solution are ideal for low-budget, high-volume applications, such as public transport, loyalty cards or events, serving as an excellent replacement for magnetic stripe or barcode solutions, favoring the tendency to upgrade entire systems into solutions purely contactless. The introduction of contactless solutions based on MIFARE® Ultralight leads to reduced installation and system maintenance costs. In addition, MIFARE® Ultralight products can be easily integrated into existing systems.
MIFARE® Classic EV1
The MIFARE® Classic EV1 standard represents the highest evolution of the MIFARE® Classic family of products available on the market since 1997. The EV1 standard is available in 1K and 4K memory versions, supporting the requirements of various applications.
MIFARE® Classic EV1 provides excellent ESD resistance for easy handling of integrated circuit assembly during card production, best-in-class RF performance for optimized transactions, and allows for more flexible antenna designs.
MIFARE® Plus
The MIFARE® Plus standard provides AES security in intelligent contactless contactless card applications, offering the benefits of seamlessly upgrading existing installations and services based on the MIFARE® Classic solution with minimal effort. This leads to the possibility of offering modern cards, backwards compatible with MIFARE® Classic, in existing security systems environments after they have been properly modernized. After upgrading security, MIFARE® Plus uses AES encryption to authenticate and encrypt data integrity.
MIFARE® DESFire
The main features of the DESFire standard are specified in its name, where DES refers to the use of the DES, 2K3DES, 3K3DES and AES hardware cryptographic engine to secure data transmission, while "Fire" is an acronym for "Fast, Innovative, Reliable, and Enhanced ", i.e. fast, innovative, reliable and optimized operation of RFID proximity applications.
The MIFARE® DESFire family consists of the MIFARE® DESFire EV1 and EV2 products, which are ideal for building reliable, scalable and interoperable smart contactless card solutions. This standard is addressed to many intelligent applications, including in identity identification, access control, customer loyalty, micro-payment applications as well as in transport systems. The MIFARE® DESFire standard is fully compliant with the requirements of fast and very secure data transmission, has flexible memory organization and is compatible with existing RFID proximity card infrastructures.
The most significant achievements of the MIFARE® standard
- Application infrastructure support in over 750 cities around the world,
- 77% share in the market for handling public transport tickets,
- The MIFARE® standard can be used in over 40 different applications,
- Over 1.2 billion people have access to MIFARE® technology,
- Support for the MIFARE® standard is implemented in over 210 million mobile phones in the form of NFC technology,
- 150 types of products in the 4 available MIFARE® families.
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