A 3D Printable Apparatus for the Industrial Programming of NFC/RFID TAGs

We here present a 3D printable, NFC/RFID automated programmer apparatus, which is able to program a large number of TAG arranged in a reel. The hardware and software solutions are presented in the paper allowing the encoding of tags in a reel with a standard NFC/RFID encoder-reader. The proposed automatic system is composed by a low-cost microcontroller, a traction system for the reel routing, an RFID/NFC programmer, an optical sensor with dedicated electronic interface for the TAG presence sensing and a custom NFC programming antenna with a magnetic shielding system for preventing TAGs close to each other to be undesirably detected and/or programmed.

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