Category: SpringCore

  • Optimize the standby consumption of the M519 and leverage LPCD

    An HF NFC/RFID reader or coupler usually spends most of its operating time waiting for a contactless card to arrive. To detect this arrival, the reader or coupler must Obviously, this means that most of the operating time consists of… wasting a lot of energy, just to wait. The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)…

  • How to configure a Puck as a reader to read a SpringPass virtual card using keyboard emulation?

    SpringCard Puck family products can be used to read contactless passes carried by NFC smartphones. In the SmartReader operating mode, the reader is standalone to run and the computer receives RFID/NFC pass data as if someone would type it on the keyboard. SpringPass by SpringCard is a service for generating NFC passes in order to…

  • How to read RFID/NFC passes with SpringCard PC/SC couplers

    SpringCard contactless PC/SC couplers (NFC/RFID HF) can be used to read contactless passes carried by NFC smartphones. In particular, the Prox’N’Roll HSP PC/SC and the PUCK configured as PC/SC have been certified :

  • Storing ECC private keys in the SpringCore’s Secure Element

    Devices in the SpringCore family feature on or more Secure Elements (SE) to store the security keys that are involved in your system. This covers both the keys used by the Smart Reader template engine or a PC/SC application for authenticating and validating the user credentials (contactless card or NFC pass) and the keys used…

  • Using master cards to configure the SpringCore devices

    SpringCore is the umbrella name to the new generation of SpringCard devices (Puck, SpringPark, etc.) that share the same MCU platform and the same overall architecture. All the devices in this family could be configured easily and securely thanks to SpringCard 2nd generation of master cards. A master card v2 is a Desfire EV1 (or later)…

  • Writing a configuration with springcoreconfig.exe

    SpringCore is the umbrella name to the new generation of SpringCard devices (Puck, SpringPark, etc.) that share the same MCU platform and the same overall architecture. springcoreconfig.exe, a software from the SpringCore Tools suite, is the command-line utility to manipulate device configurations. It is typically intended to upload a complete configuration at once, but is…