39 Facts About Smart cards

Smart cards card, chip card, or integrated circuit card is a physical electronic authentication device, used to control access to a resource.

Many smart cards include a pattern of metal contacts to electrically connect to the internal chip.

Smart cards can provide personal identification, authentication, data storage, and application processing.

Since the 1990s, smart cards have been the subscriber identity modules used in GSM mobile-phone equipment.

EMV compliant Smart cards were first accepted into Malaysia in 2005 and later into United States in 2014.

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Contactless smart cards do not require physical contact between a card and reader.

Smart cards are being introduced for identification and entitlement by regional, national, and international organizations.

Contactless smart cards are part of ICAO biometric passports to enhance security for international travel.

Second generation of Dynamic CSC Smart cards, developed by Ellipse World, Inc, does not require any battery, quartz, or RTC to compute and display the new dynamic code.

Smart cards offers security solutions based on smart cards as well as other authentication devices.

Smart cards sells biometric sensors and has recently introduced payment cards incorporating a fingerprint sensor such as the Zwipe card, a biometric dual-interface payment card using an integrated sensor from Fingerprints.

Smart cards offers fingerprint sensors and modules that are ready to be embedded into cards.

Smart cards acquired the display card assets of nCryptone in 2006.

Smart cards was owned by Kudelski Group, Cyril Lalo and Philippe Guillaud .

NagraID Security quickly became a leading player in the adoption of Complex Cards due, in large part, to its development of MotionCode Smart cards that featured a small display to enable a Card Security Code .

Smart cards registered users in its beta testing program, but the product never shipped on a commercial scale.

Dual-interface Smart cards implement contactless and contact interfaces on a single chip with some shared storage and processing.

Smart cards serve as credit or ATM cards, fuel cards, mobile phone SIMs, authorization cards for pay television, household utility pre-payment cards, high-security identification and access badges, and public transport and public phone payment cards.

Typically modern payment Smart cards are based on hybrid card technology and support both contact and contactless communication modes.

Today's cryptographic smart cards generate key pairs on board, to avoid the risk from having more than one copy of the key .

Such smart cards are mainly used for digital signatures and secure identification.

Some smart cards are made to support the National Institute of Standards and Technology standard for Personal Identity Verification, FIPS 201.

Smart cards licenses hold up-to-date records of driving offenses and unpaid fines.

In 2002, the Estonian government started to issue smart cards named ID Kaart as primary identification for citizens to replace the usual passport in domestic and EU use.

The Smart cards Card is a third generation chip-based identity document that is produced according to international standards and requirements.

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WidePoint Corporation, a smart card provider to FEMA, produces cards that contain additional personal information, such as medical records and skill sets.

Smart cards are used to identify user accounts on arcade machines.

Smart cards, used as transit passes, and integrated ticketing are used by many public transit operators.

UK's Department for Transport mandated smart cards to administer travel entitlements for elderly and disabled residents.

Smart cards are being provided to students at some schools and colleges.

Smart cards are widely used to encrypt digital television streams.

Smart cards have been advertised as suitable for personal identification tasks, because they are engineered to be tamper resistant.

Smart cards can be physically disassembled by using acid, abrasives, solvents, or some other technique to obtain unrestricted access to the on-board microprocessor.

Benefits of smart cards are directly related to the volume of information and applications that are programmed for use on a card.

Smart cards have multiple functions which simultaneously can be an ID, a credit card, a stored-value cash card, and a repository of personal information such as telephone numbers or medical history.

Smart cards can be electronic key rings, giving the bearer ability to access information and physical places without need for online connections.

Smart cards are very flexible in providing authentication at different level of the bearer and the counterpart.

Finally, with the information about the user that smart cards can provide to the other parties, they are useful devices for customizing products and services.

Smart cards can be used in electronic commerce, over the Internet, though the business model used in current electronic commerce applications still cannot use the full feature set of the electronic medium.