Contactless communication system and data carrier used for the same

摘要

To provide a contactless communication system that can reduce a time required to complete an identification of all data carriers that exist around a reader/writer and thus attempt to speed up its processing. According to the contactless communication system, multiple data carriers (DC1 to DCn) detect a response requesting command from an access device (1) and send back an individual response signal for one-bit information to the access device at a time that is ordered based on a portion of each carrier's identification information, and the access device. (1) monitors individual slots for the response signals and determines that detection of the presence of data carriers is completed when it has obtained individual signals from the data carriers (DC1 to DCn), thereby reducing the time required to complete the identification of all data carriers.