Rhys Evans, deputy senior director of Consumer Focus Wales, used the announcement to renew calls for an all-Wales
smart card to cover all forms of public transport.
The Liverpool 08
smart card was produced by Livesmart
In addition, while the previous BlackBerry
Smart Card Reader model supported a randomly generated 8-digit numeric Bluetooth pairing PIN, the new model can support more complex Bluetooth pairing PINs with both characters (symbols, letters, capital letters) and numbers.
The new Dominion KX II KVM-over-IP solution joins the Paragon(R) II
Smart Card Solution -- the first and only enterprise analog KVM solution with an integrated smart-card reader.
It's wise to consider
smart cards even if you don't plan to use them for multiple applications--because you may want to in the future.
With an embedded microcontroller,
smart cards have the unique ability to securely store data, carry out their own functions--encryption and authentication--and interact intelligently with a
smart card reader.
Now, says Tendencias, "While fraud remains low by global standards, the rapid growth of card penetration has pushed up the number of fraudulent incidents by some 15% annually." In the region, Brazil has the highest rate of migration from magnetic strip cards to EMV
smart cards with 90 percent of terminals EMV compatible.
Frost & Sullivan forecasts a 59.1% annual growth rate for microcontroller
smart card shipments during the same period.
According to CardXX, it also provides improved manufacturing efficiency, compared with standard "mill-and-glue" lamination of
smart cards.
Europe's banking authorities are requiring a change to tougher
smart cards, already in use in France for 15 years, says Claudel.
Besides providing better authentication of the identities of people accessing buildings and computer systems,
smart cards offer a number of other potential benefits and uses, such as creating electronic passenger lists for deploying military personnel and tracking immunization and other medical records.
Today, these biometric technologies are being used by a numbers of institutions that see their benefits over traditional
smart cards.