• benza
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Topic: p2p Communication with a Pagoda Mifare

HI all,

It has been 2 days that I started to work on NFC for a project in my university. I am quite disperate and disappointed since no one here seems to know something about NFC. Anyway my supervisor asked me to create a p2p communication between a Android nexus S and a Pagoda Reader MF RD700.

I know that first of all Android needs NDEF push in order to communicate by p2p.
My question: Is it possible my task? I mean is it possible to communicate android to Pagoda MI RD700 in p2p?

I'm very confused about NFC, I can't answer to my question, but if I'm not wrong should be not possible since the Pagoda can read only smart card and it's not able to communicate in p2p.
Moreover, is it possible to implement something using libnfc that allow p2p communication by a Pagoda? In other words is the Pagoda Hardware able to communicate in p2p??

Thank you very much in advance,
P.s. Anyway if you have any advice on how I can start to be well informed on NFC pleas share with me this information. I'm totally confused between technologies, Protocols and ISO!
cheers from Cagliare (italy)

  • rconty
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Re: p2p Communication with a Pagoda Mifare

Hi benza,

benza wrote:

Anyway my supervisor asked me to create a p2p communication between a Android nexus S and a Pagoda Reader MF RD700.
I mean is it possible to communicate android to Pagoda MI RD700 in p2p?

I don't know this product: Pagoda MF RD700, do you have some technical document to share? some weblinks?

benza wrote:

I'm very confused about NFC, I can't answer to my question, but if I'm not wrong should be not possible since the Pagoda can read only smart card and it's not able to communicate in p2p.

It should implement NFCIP-1 (ISO/IEC 18092) to be able to do some P2P.
After that, to do P2P with Nexus S, a software stack should implement LLCP.

benza wrote:

P.s. Anyway if you have any advice on how I can start to be well informed on NFC pleas share with me this information. I'm totally confused between technologies, Protocols and ISO!

There are a lot of specifications, some are well-written some does not, and some manufacturer makes it more hard to understand by using other terms than specifications... so don't worry NFC is hard to understand if you want to care about hardware, drivers, logical and application levels.
BTW, NFC-Forum produces some good specifications to handle mainly the software stack, I recommend you to read whitepapers from there; that's not a complete guide to NFC, but it helps a lot.

Romuald Conty