SECORA™ Connect NFC wearable solutions
Empowering Smart Wearables and IoT devices with payments and beyond
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Smart wearables and IoT devices are becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of applications by increasing functionality despite severe space and power limitations. When equipped with NFC embedded capabilities, a wearable device can allow you to pay at a store, provide access to a public transportation system, or allow entry to your own office building.
With SECORA™ Connect, Infineon's product family for connected IoT devices, it is easy to secure payments and enable convenient biometric authentication while addressing the technical challenges by OEMs and other industry partners. It provides solutions to address the rising popularity of smart wearables and IoT devices. It is a system solution that is designed to be embedded into smart wearables to provide contactless secured payment, transportation ticketing, and other applications via Near Field Communication (NFC).
SECORA™ Connect is offered as a complete turnkey solution that enables the user to securely provision, store, select and use multiple credentials such as payment card, transport ticket, etc., turning the de-facto wearable or IoT device into a powerful and versatile wallet. SECORA™ Connect allows smart system designers to seamlessly integrate a very compact, ultra-low power consuming solution for various NFC-based applications.
- Turnkey NFC
- Fast time to market
- Longest battery lifetime
- Design flexibility with optimized PCB footprint
- Seamless migration
SECORA™ Connect Product Portfolio
Infineon’s SECORA™ Connect product portfolio offers multiple benefits for OMEs and NFC embedded application designers. Our portfolio includes all-in-one turnkey NFC solutions for connected smart wearables, including system-in-package with VISA and Mastercard payment capabilities, CIPURSE™, CDCVM, PPSE and more on request. Ideal for connected IoT devices with integrated payment functions.
Pre-certified contactless performance, a simple user interface, and easy host integration via the PSOC™ based evaluation kit means product designers and OMEs can benefit from a seamless migration path and overall faster time-to-market with SECORA™ Connect solutions.
The ultra-small PCB footprint also offers exceptional design flexibility. It features a simple layout of external circuits and crystal savings, no more than 7 capacitators, and a highly optimized compact form. Field-powered NFC and boosted NFC capabilities ensure for ultra-low power consumption in standby mode and overall longest battery life for the device. Offering best-in-class support and partnerships ranging throughout the industry, SECORA™ Connect solutions can easily be integrated with multiple forms of connected and NFC embedded devices.
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SECORA™ Connect S security solutions are designed for passive NFC device applications, such as NFC embedded wearables like smart wristbands and smart rings. Its ultra-compact size makes this IC a low-cost solution for smaller devices offering field-powered NFC payment capabilities. Suitable for single instance payment devices or tokens, SECORA™ Connect S utilizes a Java Card™ 3.0.5 and Global Platform 2.3.1 operating system as well as encrypted communication for fast and secure NFC
SECORA™ Connect X is an all-in-one turnkey NFC solution for connected payments in a digitalized world. As an ultra-low power, boosted NFC solution, SECORA™ Connect X can be used to carry out secure payments across a range of active devices, including smart wearables (smart wristbands, smart watches, smart rings, etc.), automotive IoT devices and more. Featuring advanced secure remote management capabilities and requiring authentication on the corresponding consumer device, SECORA™ Connect X can be used to perform secure remote payments and boosted NFC payments from multiple devices or tokens. The IC offers multiple interface options and utilizes a Java Card™ 3.0.5 and Global Platform 2.3.1 operating system. Designed primarily for payment, transit and access applications, SECORA™ Connect X is a fast and secure solution to NFC device communication.
Features | Advantages | Benefits |
Boosted and passive NFC | Ultra-low power consumption | Longest battery lifetime. High power efficiency since the boosted NFC front-end requires very little power from the smart device battery; the passive NFC antenna draws no power at all. |
Packaged system-on-chip solutions | Plug-and-play NFC solution | Faster time-to-market. No need for additional NFC modem chip since NFC front-end is already implemented. |
Uniform Secure Element platform | Flexibility | One SE fits all. Customers can leverage the same Secure Element (SE) platform for both boosted and passive NFC architerctures to support different form factor requirements. |
Ultra-small physical footprint | Increased design flexibility | Ideally suited to low-profile microcontrollers. PCB area of only 13.6 mm2, offering more space for other components. |
Simple interface with APDU over ISO7816 or IPC | Speed | Rapid and easy host integration for fast time-to-market. |
Pre-certified payment applications | Faster time-to-market at lower risk | Full system offering facilitates payment network approval process. |
Remote SE management via Decentralized Secure Element Management (DSEM) and via Secure Element Issuer Trusted Service Management (SEI TSM) | Efficient SE management in the field | Both traditional and innovative remote SE management in the field for maximum deployment flexibility. |
Support for CIPURSE™ open standard | Multi-application schemes | Support for latest issuer demands for multi-application cards build on open standards such as CIPURSE™, thus enabling sustainable business models while still ensuring backward compatibility with legacy infrastructure. |
Ready for FIDO U2F, FIDO 2.0 | New use cases | Abbility to differentiate offering by adding authentication and other innovative features to the connected device to target new use cases. |
Best-in-class support and documentation combined with service enablement partner program | Seamless migration | Infineon's global support team with its in-depth expertise, complemented by global partnerships with relevant players, ensure a seamless migration path, ease-of-use, fastest time-to-market and resource efficiencies. |