Monday, June 1, 2009
Week 5 Journal
Sorry for such a late post. But anyway, week 5 was an interesting week. During the 1st half of the lesson, we experimented using the Felica software.
Sample Felica reader and card
Felica is a contactless IC card technology developed by Sony. As the name stemming from the word "felicity" suggests, the system was born to make daily living easier and more convenient.
The card is difficult to forge/reconstruct, and allows to send/receive data at high speed and with high security. The system is also environment-friendly since the card can be used over-and-over virtually forever by rewriting the data.
Uses of Felica
During its practical session, we use the software and reader to control the lift. According to the practical, the reader us technically known as Interrogator and the tag is known as a Transporter. Our Ezlink cards is read when it is near the reader. It uses the near-field inductive coupling technique were emergy is transfered from the reader to the tag.
EZ-Link card scanned on the reader
During the afternoon session, we presented our assignment 1. It was ok, but I guess what stands out for our presentation is the History of RFID. I like the others as well as all of them shows different unique content like games, flash animations, etc.