RFID, Radio Frequency Identification, is the technology to exchange information through near-field wireless communication between an RF tag and a reader/writer.
Felica can be used by holding it up to the reader/writer in the same way as NFC, and often times they are mistakenly thought to be the same. However, there are clear differences between them. Before going there, will explain NFC.
RFID can be categorized into UHF band tag and HF band tag based on their frequency. NFC tag is one of the HF band tags’ standard and system.
NFC, Near Field Communication, is the standard for near-field wireless communication developed by Sony and Philips.
NFC refers to the communication system itself. Based on NFC, the contactless IC card technology is named Felica, which was added the security structure developed by Sony and improved communication speed to NFC.
Therefore, one of the NFC standards is Felica.
FeliCa is the name of technical method for the non-contact type of IC card developed by Sony.
It is used for many transportation card like Suica and Rakuten Edy, too.
Other major names of non-contact type of IC card than FeliCa include Tga-it (ISO15693 standard) by Texas Instruments, I・CODE by NXP, Mifare (ISO14443A/B) by NXP.
Non-contact type of IC card is broadly considered as one of RFID, too.
* “FeliCa” is a Technical method of the non-contact type of IC card developed by Sony Corp
and is the registered trade name owned by Sony. * “Suica” is the registered trademark of transportation card for the East Japan Railway Company.
* “Rakuten Edy” is the brand name of the prepaid type of electronic money service managed by Rakuten Edy Corp and “Rakuten Edy” is the registered trademark of Rakuten Corp.
＊ Other names of company and products/services are used for the only purpose of displaying them and there is the case that those names are the registered trademark or applied one for each company.
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