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What’s the different between RFID EM (ID), Mifare (IC), HID Card & NFC?

In brief, MIFARE technology, a trademark of NXP Semiconductors, is used for contactless smartcards and is RF-enabled. Whereas, RFID is also RF-enabled but is used for identification purposes. HID are proximity cards produced by HID global corporation.

A MIFARE or so-called IC card has a much larger memory than an RFID card (so-called an ID Card) and is widely used in hotels as payment cards and for identification purposes.

While RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification- a contactless one-way communication method at varying distances. Whereas NFC, Near Field Communication, allows for two-way communication and requires action by the user.

RFID Access Card Format for Attendance and Access Control Solutions

Generally, there are 3 types which is EM Proximity, Mifare and HID. Unlike magnetic stripe cards, contactless card that allow you to tap / put near the card reader for a moment to enable the identification of card number. Typically, it takes about 5 to 10cm range to read the card. All RFID card serve standard size 86 * 54 mm and thickness depends whether it’s ISO slim card or clam shell cards.

1) EM Proximity Card

It’s common to use this card in office or some condo apartment use for door access system and time attendance solutions. EM Card working frequency is 100Khz ~ 150Khz support read and write function. It provide low consumption data transmission and encoding. Downside for EM card is it can be clone or duplicate and is consider less secure enough for critical door access security environment.

2) Mifare

Mifare card is invented by NXP® technology with MIFARE brand normally classify into 1K or 4K contactless 13.56Mhz complies to ISO 14443A standard. It’s widely use for access control, time attendance, public transport and membership system. Mifare card is much more secure compare to EM proximity and hardly to clone or duplicate. This is because the card has design with 32 sectors of 4 blocks each and 8 sectors of 16 blocks. Mifare card also support other types of format or shape like key tag, wristband and RFID Tags. You can explore more in NXP website:

https://www.nxp.com/products/rfid-nfc/mifare-hf/mifare-classic:MC_41863

3) HID

HID are proximity cards produced by HID global corporation. It’s world-wide RFID card access control solution provider. HID cards is considering post highest security with open, global standards to highly advanced encryption and a software-based infrastructure.

4) NFC

While RFID is the process by which items are uniquely identified using radio waves, NFC is a specialized subset within the family of RFID technology. Specifically, NFC is a branch of High-Frequency (HF) RFID, and both operate at the 13.56 MHz frequency. NFC is designed to be a secure form of data exchange, and an NFC device is capable of being both an NFC reader and an NFC tag. This unique feature allows NFC devices to communicate peer-to-peer.

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