RFID Sensor NXP MFRC522

Introduction

This embedded sensor, that provides a RFID sensor at 13.56 MHz, is based on the NXP MFRC522 chipset and it is compatible with the SPI serial interface. For ease we are going to connect it to the FTDI FT232H device, of which there is a dedicated page on this site - refer to the above page for installation.

Connection via SPI

This sensor must be connected to the FTDI FT232H development board via SPI protocol. The connection connectors are listed below:

Python libraries

To manage this sensor, we can use one of the following Python libraries:

• Library named "MFRC522 FTDI". This library only requires the presence of the "PyFTDI" library and was built from Python library "mfrc522 Python library" on Internet.