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How we facilitate the life of students with the CNOUSOur partner The national center for university and school works, also called CNOUS, is ensuring the control of the CNOUS and CROUS network. Its mission is also to encourage the implementation of new tools and to organise the dialog between staff representative and students. Project details The CNOUS contacted us for a project regarding the development of a DLL and the design of a system allowing to write informations on[…] -
LoRa: Overview of this technology & its protocol LoRaWANWhat is LoRa? LoRa is a radio communication technology, developed by a startup from Grenoble bought by an american company called Semtech in 2012. The 4 letters of LoRa stand for Long Range and they describe the objective of this technology: ensure long distance information transfer. LoRa uses the band frequency 868MHz (UHF) which is free and free of use. The specific modulation of LoRa allows you to obtain a reach of several[…] -
SpringCard is now a member of NFC Forum !The magnetic field 13.56 MHz is the technical basis of three different uses, the classic use reader + card, the RFID use (for traceability and inventory applications) and the peer-to-peer use. These three uses are united under one identified label: NFC, which means near field communication. The NFC Forum The NFC Forum is a non-profit industry association whose membership draws from all parts of the NFC ecosystem. This[…] -
Our partner's projects are our projects: K2Corp's exampleOUR PARTNER K2Corp is a company operating in the interactive terminals area, created in November 2005. Their mission is to design and manufacture interactives terminals for key accounts. They value customer support and efficiency. PROJECT CHALLENGES A store chain has asked K2Corp to design a vault secured by a card and a code. This system would allow employees to drop the content of cash registers easily and in a secured[…] -
NFC, RFID : the complete guideRFID was created because of the essential need to identify enemies and allies planes during World War II. IFF system (Identification Friend or Foe) used radio waves to identify a mobile object, so it become the first identification system using radio-frequency (Radio Frequency IDentification). Nowadays thanks to the miniaturization of electronic elements and the decrease in costs, RFID is used in many other field of application. An[…] -
How to design your antenna?SpringCard OEM NFC/RFID module is suggested with a 69x45mm antenna which covers a wide diversity of uses. Some situations may lead to the design of a specific antenna, it could be for facing clutter constraints or to optimise communication with nonstandard cards (bigger or smaller ones). But designing an antenna is not an easy task ! You need to tune it but also to test and validate your antenna that is an expert job. SpringCard[…] -
SpringCard develops green packaging!SpringCard has developed an environmentally friendly packaging for its products. Beforehand our products packaging was made of expanded foam, these packaging needed to use strongly polluting raw materials such as plastic and oil. SpringCard decided to enter into an environmentally friendly initiative starting with its packaging. The new SpringCard packaging are made of cardboard which reduces the use of polluting raw materials. The use[…] -
SpringCard guides you through the world of contactless solutionsYou aim at presenting quickly a demonstration or delivering your new contactless product or service within a very quick time? Of course, you also need to be sure your system will last long. However electronic components and standards evolve rapidly. But what if environment changes or one of the essential components of your product becomes end-of-life ? These questions creates uncertainty that slows down your project whereas you have no time[…] -
Choose your contactless providerSpringCard ecosystem SpringCard is a quality stakeholder of the contactless ecosystem: our products and services are the best demonstration of this. Our ecosystem is made up of electronic components providers, producers of our products, but also companies ranging from the multinational to the self-employed developer, and many different partners such as project managers, buyers or members of standardization committees. This ecosystem[…] -
SpringCard's customers serviceClients support as a strong point At SpringCard, supporting our client is essential: this is why support is provided by our engineers themselves. Indeed we believe that those who design our products are also those who are the most competent to support the client to install a product or adjust an installation. This organization has two advantages : understanding better our clients needs and integrating their feedback when designing new[…] -
Core NFC: what you need to know about itOn September 19, 2017, Apple released the latest version of its operating system for its smartphones, iOs 11. Among other features, it provides the possibility of using the the smartphone NFC chip which was before only used for the Apple Pay application. Developers can work with this chip via a new API called Core NFC. Let's learn more about it ! After reading this, you could also be interesting by our previous article about iOs &[…] -
Success Stories of our clients: ThinFilmOur Norwegian customer Thin Film Electronics ASA is a global leader in NFC mobile marketing. Its latest achievement consists in the development of a NFC beer coaster for Coronado Brewing Co.in San Diego (source of the picture on the right side: Coronado Brewing Co). The beer market is extremely competitive: more than 3,900 new products are launched every year in the US beer market (source Nielsen). It is then difficult to stand out from the[…] -
Retail and contactless technologies (NFC, RFID, BLE, etc.)According to Fevad, French e-commerce is growing (sales improved to 14.6% in 2016 compared to 2015). After tourism market, retail market is a pillar of French e-commerce. Retail is a dynamic and highly competitive market. In such a context, contactless technologies are helpful (essential?) tools to stand out. Advantages of contactless for the retail trade Guaranteeing authenticity of products, tenfolding proximity marketing[…] -
iOs et NFC: latest news from a NFC APIRecently, an iOS developer performed tests with his jailbroken iPhone and, in the wake, Apple released an NFC API for all developers. Will the new API unveiled by Apple be released in September? In the meantime, here is a brief summary of what we have observed. The interaction jailbreaker / Apple On May 19, 2017, Elias Limneos, iOs developer, published a video in which he shows how to identify different types of tags with his[…] -
RFID: overview of the technologyRFID is a technology that helps saving time and money by: rationalizing the management automating actions sorting easier tracing things RFID is the technology of real-time information control. The examples below brings you a non-exhaustive overview of the sectors that can implement it. Large retailers Supply Chain Management of closed loops (containers, pallets, ...) Airports Luggage[…] -
How to start with my contactless project?SpringCard wrote this short guide to help you start your NFC / RFID project. You will find here the questions to answer in the most logical order. Once you have all the answers, it is time to contact our teams who will offer you the most suitable solution. Which rate for your project? As SpringCard'engineers are specialists of the 13.56MHz, we are only interested in this one :) Among 13.56MHz technologies, which one would you[…] -
Why must your contactless reader be interoperable and scalable?SpringCard devices are interoperable Ou devices are interoperable: With the most common cards on the market, With products other than those we produce (provided that they use the PC/SC standard), With the future products that we will design. The new products will always have the same dimensions and interfaces. Because if some components bring additional functionality or increased capabilities, novelties should not upset your[…] -
ThinFilm talks about usThinFilm is a global leader in NFC mobile marketing and smart packaging solutions using printed electronics technology. Thinfilm aims at bringing ready NFC readers to the market and help position NFC as an enabling technology for a range of applications within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space. In order to do so, SpringCard is identified as the best partner. Thinfilm tags have been fully validated with a variety of[…] -
A new packaging for our Prox’N’RollOur Prox’N’Roll is a versatile reader that is apart from the other devices we design because of its round shape. When SpringCard teams were working on building the base of its image, the packaging aimed at positioning the product, distinguishing it, seducing the customer, as a complement to its intrinsic quality. As now the sales figures are growing, rationalizing and improving the process is required. The Prox’N’Roll packaging has then[…] -
An end-to-end secure access control systemFinding the weakest link An access control system is like a chain made up of several links: the access badge, the reader, the access control unit hosting the credentials’ database, the door opener, the encoding terminal, the software managing the users’ access rights, and so on. In this chain the weakest link has long been the access badge. Using the UID of basic cards, or MIFARE Classic® cards that are not well secure, jeopardizes the[…]