Introduction
Welcome to the official website of libnfc. On this site you will find information concerning the open source library for Near Field Communication (NFC). libnfc is the first free NFC SDK and Programmers API released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It provides complete transparency and royalty-free use for everyone. Since the RFID market is spoiled by proprietary hard and software we want to contribute constructively by distributing a free library which can be used for various RFID and NFC applications.
This website mainly focuses itself on researches and developers that want to work with NFC hardware but don't want the pain of programming NFC software on a very low level. Furthermore, this library does not require any license fee or non-disclosure agreement to be signed for. This list shows the current supported features. We hope this moves the NFC development to a more open culture where discussions about applications and techniques can be shared among the users.
All major operating systems are supported, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Compilation should work out of the box. libnfc currently depends on Winscard/ PCSC-Lite and libusb. The supported NFC hardware devices are the ACS ACR122(U) NFC reader and various NFC-dongles. In principle all hardware based on the NXP PN53x NFC Controller chip is supported. Check the compatibility for more info. The library currently supports modulations for MIFARE, FeliCa, NFCIP (peer 2 peer) and other ISO14443 complient tags.
The power of libnfc comes from all the volunteers that are willing to help. There is always challenge available for designers, developers, engineers and documentors. Near Field Communication provides a lot of opportunities for connecting objects to each other. Feel free to introduce new ideas and innovative steps that can be made together.
We welcome you to join the developers community and contribute your expertise to improve libnfc and it's documentation.
