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INSIDE Secure announces its dual-interface VaultIC 150/150D security modules
November 2013 by Marc Jacob
INSIDE Secure announces the next generation of its dual-interface VaultIC 150/150D security modules. These have been redesigned to provide enhanced functionality, including a new privacy mode, providing a more cost-effective solution that will have broad appeal to new, higher-volume markets. The VaultIC 150/150D may be used by brands as an NFC Forum Type 4 tag to provide an effective protection solution to guard against counterfeiting, cloning and gray marketing. It may also be used as a low-cost secure bridge by manufacturers of medical, communications, entertainment and other equipment to enable real-time communications and data transfer between their products and NFC-enabled smartphones, tablets or other mobile devices.
According to Vian, INSIDE’s first-generation NFC tags have achieved considerable success in protecting the products of ultra-luxury brands, from wines to watches to handbags to printer cartridges and more. The new assembly and packaging options of these second-generation tags will make them appropriate for brand protection in more mainstream, higher volume markets like pharmaceuticals.
The field detect feature of the VaultIC 150 has been enhanced with a pass-through mode that enables real-time communications and data transfer between an NFC device such as a smartphone and a host microcontroller. This feature allows them to be used to establish a versatile communication channel for eHealth sensors, cameras and other applications that can be a very cost effective alternative to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or other connectivity technologies.
In addition to a standard NFC contactless interface with full ISO14443 Type B protocol support for communicating with NFC devices, the VaultIC 150 also integrates a unique one-wire contact interface for host processor wake up and communication (using just a single GPIO). Accessing the data contained within the file systems from either interface is performed using the standard NFC Forum command set.
The VaultIC 150/150D features a variety of hardware security protection/detection mechanisms to prevent tampering and a variety of external attacks, including dedicated hardware for protection against SPA/DPA/SEMA/DEMA attacks, advanced protection against physical attacks, environmental protection systems and secure memory management/access protection. In addition to standard NFC Forum Type 4 tag operations, the dual-interface secure NFC tags can also manage strong authentication schemes using on-chip asymmetric cryptography.
– Availability and Pricing
The VaultIC 150/150D security modules are available now in a variety of packaging options, including square tags, stickers and DFN8, among others. Custom configurations are also available.
