RFID cards
With the rapid development of global information technology, there is an increasing use of cards. They are most often made of PCV, PET and ABS materials, with a gradual increase in the use of paper cards. The dimensions of the cards are 85.5x55mm while their thickness varies depending on the type of card.
Card types:
Contact cards – Bank payment cards, ID cards, health insurance cards;
Contactless RFID cards – Public transport cards, identification for access control;
Plastic cards – most often used as various membership, VIP and loyalty cards with a barcode or magnetic stripe.
Contact cards
RFID - Contactless RFID cards
Dual cards
Specification
We are witnessing the growing use of plastic cards, which are widely used in all spheres. Most often, we use them in the form of membership and loyalty cards. The loyalty card as a tool that companies use for sales and marketing purposes is not an additional burden but a way to increase the company’s profits. With these cards, companies strive to attract new and retain existing customers by providing the cardholder with certain benefits that other customers otherwise don’t have.
Most of these cards come with a barcode or magnetic stripe depending on the system and equipment companies use. They can be in standard 85.5x54mm and non-standard dimensions.
Printing technology enables a wide range of possible designs. Cards can be standard glossy or matte, and can be transparent, with UV effect, brushed gold and silver effect, mirror effect, engraved, scratch scratch, with hologram mark, sensors for measuring body temperature, water temperature or UV radiation, mini 3in1 cards, etc.
Contact cards contain a visible chip on their surface. In order to be read, they must be inserted into the smart card reader, where the physical contact of the chip with the reader transfers data.
The dimensions of the cards are 85.5x54mm according to the ISO standard, and the thickness of the cards is between 0.80-0.84mm.
The most commonly used contact card chips are:
SLE4442, SLE4428, SLE5542, FM4442, FM4428, ATMEL 24C01A/02/04/08/16/32/64/128/256
| Chip type | Memory size | RF Standard |
| SLE5542 | 256 byte | ISO7816 |
| SLE5528 | 1K byte | ISO7816 |
| FM4442 (fully compatible with SLE5542 / SLE4442) | 256 byte | ISO7816 |
| FM4428 (fully compatible with SLE5528 / SLE4428) | 1K byte | ISO7816 |
| IS23SC4442 / GT23SC4442 (fully compatible with SLE5542 / SLE4442) | 256 byte | ISO7816 |
| IS23SC4428 / GT23SC4428 (fully compatible with SLE5528 / SLE4428) | 1K byte | ISO7816 |
| IS23SC1604 / GT23SC1604 (fully compatible with AT88SC1604) | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C01 | 1K byte | ISO7816 |
| AT24C02 | 2K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C02 / GT24C02 (fully compatible with AT24C02) | 2K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C04 | 4K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C08 | 8K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C16 | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C32 | 32K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C64 | 64K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C128 | 128K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT24C512 | 512K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC102 | 1K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC153 | 2K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC0104C | 1k bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC0204C | 2K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC0404C | 4K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC0808C | 8K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC1616C | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC3216C | 32K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC6416C | 64K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC12816C | 128K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC25616C | 256K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC1604 | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC1604B | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| AT88SC1608 | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| GT24C08 (fully compatible with AT24C08) | 8K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C16 / GT24C16 (fully compatible with AT24C16) | 16K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C32 / GT24C32 (fully compatible with AT24C32) | 32K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C64 / GT24C64 (fully compatible with AT24C64) | 64K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C128 / GT24C128 (fully compatible with AT24C128) | 128K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C256 / GT24C256 (fully compatible with AT24C256) | 256K bits | ISO7816 |
| IS24C512 / GT24C512 (fully compatible with AT24C512) | 512K bits | ISO7816 |
Contactless cards are based on RFID technology. These cards can be read from a certain distance, so no physical contact with the reader is required to read these cards.
The dimensions of the cards are 85.5x54mm and 0.76mm thick.
The most commonly used chips are: NXP (Philips) MIFARE Classic® 1K, MIFARE Classic® 4K, MIFARE® Ultralight, MIFARE® desfire, T5557, T5567, T5577, FM11RF08, ISSI S70, EM4100, EM4102, TK4100, TK410C, GEN -CODE-2, TI, HID ..
Depending on the card chip frequency, there are:
Chip type | Frequency | Memory size | RF Standard |
EM4200 | 125KHz | 64 bits R/O | ISO18000-2 |
EM4305 | 134.2KHz | 512 bits | ISO11784/11785 |
TK4100 | 125KHz | 64 bits R/O | ISO18000-2 |
PVC thin card | 125KHz | Thickness: 0.9mm, RF standard: ISO18000-2 | |
ABS thick card | 125KHz | Thickness: 1.8mm, RF standard: ISO18000-2 | |
ABS thick card | 125KHz | Thickness: 1.8mm, RF standard: ISO18000-2 | |
EM4450 / EM4550 | 125KHz | 1K bitsRead/Write | ISO18000-2 |
TA5577 | 125KHz | 330/363 bitsRead/Write | ISO18000-2 |
HITAG 1 | 125KHz | 2K bitsRead/Write | ISO11784/11785 |
HITAG 2 | 125KHz | 256 bitsRead/Write | ISO11784/11785 |
HITAG S 256 | 125KHz | 256 bitsRead/Write | ISO11784/11785 |
HITAG S 2048 | 125KHz | 2K bits Read/Write | ISO11784/11785 |
Chip type | Frequency | Memory size | RF Standard |
MF1 IC S20 | 13.56MHz | 40 byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE Classic® 1K | 13.56MHz | 1K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
NTAG203 | 13.56MHz | ISO 14443A | |
FM11RF08 | 13.56MHz | 1K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
IS23SC4439 | 13.56MHz | 1K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
SHC1104 | 13.56MHz | 1K byteRead/Write | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE Classic® 1K | 13.56MHz | 1K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE Classic® 4K | 13.56MHz | 4K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
GT23SC4469 | 13.56MHz | 4K byteRead/Write | ISO 14443A |
FM11RF32 | 13.56MHz | 4K byte Read/Write | ISO 14443A |
GT23SC4456 | 13.56MHz | 8K byte | ISO 14443A |
FM1208M01 | 13.56MHz | 8K byte | ISO 14443A |
FM1208 CPU card | 13.56MHz | 8K byte | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® Ultralight | 13.56MHz | 512 bitsRead/Write | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® Ultralight C | 13.56MHz | 1536 bits | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® Plus S 2k / 4K | 13.56MHz | 2K/4K byte | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® Plus X 2k / 4K | 13.56MHz | 2K/4K byte | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® DESFire 4K | 13.56MHz | 4K byte | ISO 14443A |
MIFARE® DESFire EV1 | 13.56MHz | 2k/4K/8K byte Read | ISO 14443A |
ICODE SLI | 13.56MHz | 1024 bits Read/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
ICODE SLI-S | 13.56MHz | 2048 bits | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
ICODE SLI-L | 13.56MHz | 512 bits | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
ICODE SLIX | 13.56MHz | 1024 bits | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
ICODE SLIX-S | 13.56MHz | 2048 bits | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
ICODE SLIX-L | 13.56MHz | 512 bits | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
FM1302N | 13.56MHz | 1K bits Read/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
BL75R05 | 13.56MHz | 1K bitsRead/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
Legic MIM 256 / 1024 | 13.56MHz | 256/1K byte Read/Write | Legic RF Standard |
LEGIC ATC128 | 13.56MHz | 128 byte | Legic RF Standard |
LEGIC ATC256 | 13.56MHz | 256 byte | Legic RF Standard |
LEGIC ATC1024 | 13.56MHz | 1024 byte | Legic RF Standard |
LEGIC ATC2048 | 13.56MHz | 2048 byte | Legic RF Standard |
LEGIC ATC4096 | 13.56MHz | 4096 byte | Legic RF Standard |
Tag-it™ HF-I standard | 13.56MHz | 256 bits Read/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
Tag-it™ HF-I Plus | 13.56MHz | 2K bits Read/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
FM1302T | 13.56MHz | 2K bitsRead/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
BL75R04 | 13.56MHz | 2K bits Read/Write | ISO 15693, ISO18000 |
Picopass™ 2kS / 16KS 32kS | 13.56MHz | 2K/32K bitsRead/Write | ISO 14443B, ISO 15693 |
SRI512 | 13.56MHz | 512 bits | ISO 14443B |
SR176 | 13.56MHz | 176 bits | ISO 14443B |
SRIX4K | 13.56MHz | 4K bits | ISO 14443B |
LRI2K | 13.56MHz | 2K bits | ISO 15693 |
AT88RF020 | 13.56MHz | 2K bits | ISO 14443B |
Chip type | Frequency | Memory size | RF Standard |
Higgs™-3 | 860-960 MHz | 512 User bits | ISO 18000-6 Type C |
Due to the increasing use of smart cards, and in order to avoid the replacement of old systems, the need to use Dual Cards is increasing.
Dual cards can be found in combinations of smart chip, magnetic stripe and contactless LF, HF or UHF frequency chips.
| Chip type | Frequency | Memory size | RF Standard |
| TK4100 + FM11RF08 | LF + HF | ISO18000-2 ISO14443A | |
| TK4100 + MIFARE Classic 1K | LF + HF | ISO18000-2 ISO14443A | |
| TK4100 + Higgs-3 | LF + UHF | ISO18000-2 ISO18000-6C | |
| TK4100 + FM4442 | LF + contact | ISO18000-2 ISO7816 | |
| TK4100 + SLE5542 | LF + contact | ISO18000-2 ISO7816 | |
| EM4200 + FM11RF08 | LF + HF | ISO18000-2 ISO14443A | |
| EM4200 + MIFARE Classic® 1K | LF + HF | ISO18000-2 ISO14443A | |
| EM4450 + MIFARE Classic® 1K | LF + HF | ISO18000-2 ISO14443A | |
| EM4200 + Higgs-3 | LF + UHF | ISO18000-2 ISO18000-6C | |
| EM4200 + FM4442 | LF + contact | ISO18000-2 ISO7816 | |
| EM4200 + SLE5542 | LF + contact | ISO18000-2 ISO7816 | |
| FM11RF08 + Higgs-3 | HF + UHF | ISO14443A ISO18000-6C | |
| FM11RF08 + FM4442 | HF+ contact | ISO14443A ISO7816 | |
| FM11RF08 + SLE5542 | HF+ contact | ISO14443A ISO7816 | |
| MIFARE Classic® 1K + Higgs-3 | HF + UHF | ISO14443A ISO18000-6C | |
| MIFARE Classic® 1K + FM4442 | HF+ contact | ISO14443A ISO7816 | |
| MIFARE Classic® 1K + SLE5542 | HF+ contact | ISO14443A ISO7816 | |
| Higgs-3 + FM4442 | UHF+contact | ISO18000-6C ISO7816 | |
| Higgs-3 + SLE5542 | UHF+contact | ISO18000-6C ISO7816 |