It's a chip card-plastic the size of credit card with a built-in computer chip to store data and do transaction, barcode, contactless radio frequency, biometric information, encryption and authenticity, or digital photo ID application.
A computer chip or ICC (Integrated Circuit Chip) can serve as a microcontroler or computer. Stored data can be accessed to settle various application processes. When used with a special application, smart Card can provide high security and capability to store and modify data.
Types of Smart Card:
Contact v Contactless - Smart Card has two types of interfaces: contact and contactles. A contact card is slid into or stroked against a reader. This is unnecessary for a contacless card because of its built in antenna that interacts with readers.
A contact card is more secure thatn its contactless counterpart. The former is more suitable for monetary applications such as banking, while the leeter tends to be used for control access, loyalty, and transportation applications.Combi Smart Card serves to integrate contact and contactless cards.It's a One Smart Card Solution as it combine contact and contactless features in a single chip.
Making Life Easier:
Payment made by credit card are not foolproof. Your credit card number can be scribbled down for illegal use. You'llnever find out until you are billed. By using a smart card, your account number can never be found out as all transactions are made automatically without manual interventions.
Even Several universities have already used it as an ID card for students and as means to access school facilities. In Singapore, ID cards/ driver licenses use smart cards. It allows the police to instantly track down violation histories without having to call up headquarters. In the Philippines, some banks apply smart cards as does the private sector. For instance, shoppingcenters have lifestyle cards offering many benefits for card holders. SK Telecom Mobile,one of the biggest cellular telephone operator in Korea, issued Moneta, a GSM card facility featuring smart card functions combine in one chip. Moneta requires a special cell phone to make contactless payments through infrared or radio frequency applications.
Smart card is slowly but surely forcing plastic/ magnetic cards of the market. It stores transactions or data in the chip, thereby slashing infrastructure costs as readers are no longer required to be interconnected.
Technology of the Future
There is belief that future technology will bring us smaller and smarter tools/ media than we could ever imagine. Smart cards may perhaps become even so small that they fit in a wristwatch or become suitable for implantation, making you literally inseperable with the technology.
A computer chip or ICC (Integrated Circuit Chip) can serve as a microcontroler or computer. Stored data can be accessed to settle various application processes. When used with a special application, smart Card can provide high security and capability to store and modify data.
Types of Smart Card:
Contact v Contactless - Smart Card has two types of interfaces: contact and contactles. A contact card is slid into or stroked against a reader. This is unnecessary for a contacless card because of its built in antenna that interacts with readers.
A contact card is more secure thatn its contactless counterpart. The former is more suitable for monetary applications such as banking, while the leeter tends to be used for control access, loyalty, and transportation applications.Combi Smart Card serves to integrate contact and contactless cards.It's a One Smart Card Solution as it combine contact and contactless features in a single chip.
Making Life Easier:
Payment made by credit card are not foolproof. Your credit card number can be scribbled down for illegal use. You'llnever find out until you are billed. By using a smart card, your account number can never be found out as all transactions are made automatically without manual interventions.
Even Several universities have already used it as an ID card for students and as means to access school facilities. In Singapore, ID cards/ driver licenses use smart cards. It allows the police to instantly track down violation histories without having to call up headquarters. In the Philippines, some banks apply smart cards as does the private sector. For instance, shoppingcenters have lifestyle cards offering many benefits for card holders. SK Telecom Mobile,one of the biggest cellular telephone operator in Korea, issued Moneta, a GSM card facility featuring smart card functions combine in one chip. Moneta requires a special cell phone to make contactless payments through infrared or radio frequency applications.
Smart card is slowly but surely forcing plastic/ magnetic cards of the market. It stores transactions or data in the chip, thereby slashing infrastructure costs as readers are no longer required to be interconnected.
Technology of the Future
There is belief that future technology will bring us smaller and smarter tools/ media than we could ever imagine. Smart cards may perhaps become even so small that they fit in a wristwatch or become suitable for implantation, making you literally inseperable with the technology.
