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Power-harvesting using NFC to power up a light sensor and LED

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samiha1234
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I want to design a circuit that can read data from a sensor (this is a color sensor ,AS7341) and it will be connected to a LED. I want to determine the light intensity of the LED using AS7341 (which requires 1.8V for operation, max 300µA consumption) and I'll use an led (HSMW-C230) which has a forward current of 5 mA with a typical forward voltage of 2.85 V. 

I want the circuit to be lightweight and don't want to use a battery. I want to wirelessly get the sensor reading from the device to the smartphone, it will just be a one time reading with NFC. I was wondering if this feasible with an NFC power harvesting IC like the NTAG I²C Plus by NXP? Will it be enough to power up the led and the color sensor? Is the NTAG I²C Plus able to transfer the intensity data from AS7341 to smartphone via I2C or do I need a separate microcontroller for that task? 

So as a summary:

When I bring my smartphone closer to my device, the led should light up and the AS7341 should get a light intensity reading from the LED. Then it should transfer this intensity data over to the smartphone. Is this something feasible? What are my options?

Thank you!

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samiha1234
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I also found two development boards  OM2NTP5332 board for the NTAG 5 link/switch, and the OM2NTA5332 board for the NTAG 5 boost. The one for the boost has a 10 by 10 mm antenna but the one for LINK has a larger antenna. I was wondering if the 10 by 10 mm antenna would work with the NTAG 5 LINK. I have little idea about antenna design so I am hoping to copy the design in the development board. 

 

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samiha1234
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Hi, thank you for sharing the link to the product. I checked it and it seems that the NTAG5 link can control I2C devices. So it must be programmable. I was wondering if you have example codes that I can refer to?

Thank you!

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Tomas_Parizek
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Hello samiha1234

 

For this product, we offer an evaluation board: 

https://www.nxp.com/products/rfid-nfc/nfc-hf/connected-nfc-tags/ntag-5-development-kits:OM2NTX5332

 

+ some FW examples 

Tomas_Parizek_0-1733495096993.png

 

Please look at them

 

BR

Tomas 

 

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