Professionals and end-users can easily develop their own contactless and NFC applications

09/30/08, Paris: AIRTAG brings its experience of the NFC technology to the Internet, with the launch today of AIRTAG KIT, the first NFC development kit for end-users, professionals and developers. This kit enables to program tags to NFC standards, to communicate with all NFC mobile phones and to develop secured applications compliant with the industry standards.

AIRTAG KIT is a multimedia NFC reader with USB connection. AIRTAG KIT includes a SDK (Software Development Kit) and also enables the access to a knowledge base and to a community of users via the www.airtagkit.com website. This site allows the consultation of on-line tutorials, examples programs, discussion forums, professional advices and applications ideas around NFC objects.
Price : 249€ (VAT included)

"By creating AIRTAG KIT, we wish to give end-users an accessible and efficient tool, enabling to develop simple applications, and also progress towards NFC software development based on smart card industry standards. We also wish to create a place where consumers can share experiences on the airtagkit.com website" according to Jérémie LEROYER, CEO of AIRTAG.

For consumers

AIRTAG KIT enables to develop its own Internet of Things, more precisely to connect real objects with on-line contents, thanks to NFC standards, as for example:

• Associate objects (pictures, souvenirs, tools, products…) with Internet pages
• Activate a musical animation on his computer
• Associate social networks with a business card
• Develop interactive games

For professionals

AIRTAG KIT enables to develop secured professional applications:

•  Access control
• Check in/check out
• Electronic wallet or loyalty programs
• Ticketing and mass transit programs

For developers

AIRTAG KIT enables to program NFC objects compliant with the standards of the smartcard industry:

• Interface allowing to communicate with a contactless smartcard (sending APDU according to the standard ISO 7816)
• Possibility to develop and load JavaCard applications compliant with Global Platform standards.
• Possibility to develop applications on all NFC mobile phones available on the market
• MIFARE Interface of management (update and use of identification keys)

AIRTAG KIT includes:

• 1 universal NFC USB reader compatible with ISO 14443 A and B, ISO 15693, Mifare^® and FeliCa^®
• 4 specific tags: 1 JCOP 30, 1 MIFARE ® 1ko, 1 15693 card, 1 sticker Inside Contactless (Dual ISO 14443B and 15693)
• 1 library (SDK) offering an API to access to the essential functions of the reader:
  • Reading / writing for every protocol
  • NDEF objects Management (text, image, URL, controls)
  • Sound and the light effects management
• 1 user guide and 1 technical reference documentation
• programs of examples allowing to activate all the functions of the reader
• 1 complete guide of installation

About AIRTAG:

Created in 2006, AIRTAG is the first innovative European company fully dedicated to NFC applications and services. 
Based in Vanves France, AIRTAG supplies integrated contactless / NFC solutions: embedded applications, applicative and downloading platforms, and dedicated NFC infrastructures (readers, posters, tags, interactive kiosks, etc.). www.airtag.com

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