NFC or RFID scanner connection to Ignition

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My plant is wanting to go paperless by replacing printed barcodes with NFC or RFID chips. My boss has demonstrated to me how he got an Android to read NFC using an app called NFC Tools and wants me to figure out how to get reading and writing tags working via Ignition. I can’t find anything suggesting that this is currently possible. Has anyone managed to do this?

I figure if we can at least get it to function like a keyboard, I could make it work the way I have done with QR code scanning, using a Perspective view with a hidden focused text input. I’m not sure that would help with writing to the tags, though.

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Barcode Scanner Input component would be your friend if you have a RFID/NFC reader that mimics a keyboard input.

I used a USB device that read badges via RFID with this method.

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In Perspective, I created a sign off sheet for our training events where our employees use their RFID badges to log in to the training. I am using a Barcode Scanner Input object with a script on onActionPerformed to validate the data, and save it to a database.

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I have not used this personally, but there is an NFC session event too.
Perspective Session Event Scripts | Ignition User Manual

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This only works with the perspective app on your phone. I think the barcode scanner object with a usb reader is the way to go.

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Right, but he didn't mention what device he would be using.