Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Dell embedded reader

I will continue today about contactless reader topic.

It take a while now we have some interests on the embedded rfid reader available in Dell E-Family laptops. It was a huge evolution because now people own RFID reader by default just like wifi or bluetooth, without knowing what is it sometimes.
Thanks to HID Global, Broadcom and Dell companies, RFID software can be democratized.

After testing, the story was less funny: the reader doesn't work like standard PC/SC reader and it seems difficult to use it without proprietary SDK.
In fact the reader run in two modes which can be turn on/off to support PC/SC or not. Special thanks to Ridrix for his discovery.
Once you enable normal radio mode, you're on familiar ground and the good new is ISLOG RFID Suite already works with Dell embedded reader for Mifare Classic and Mifare DESFire chips too. We're currently unable to support HID iClass card on this reader without the SDK, will should be released soon I hope.

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