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This document summarizes the history and features of smart cards. It discusses how smart cards originated in the late 1960s with the combination of microchips and plastic cards. The document then explains that smart cards contain embedded microprocessor chips or memory chips, can hold large amounts of encrypted data, and have a variety of applications including payment systems, identification cards, loyalty programs, and transportation cards. In closing, it discusses advantages like security, portability and flexibility as well as potential disadvantages and bugs that are still being addressed.

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Smart Card

This document summarizes the history and features of smart cards. It discusses how smart cards originated in the late 1960s with the combination of microchips and plastic cards. The document then explains that smart cards contain embedded microprocessor chips or memory chips, can hold large amounts of encrypted data, and have a variety of applications including payment systems, identification cards, loyalty programs, and transportation cards. In closing, it discusses advantages like security, portability and flexibility as well as potential disadvantages and bugs that are still being addressed.

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Content
 Introduction
 History
 What is a Smart Card?
 Construction of Smart Cards
 Examples of Smart Cards
 Application
 Types of Smart Cards
 Parts of Smart Cards
 Advantages
 Disadvantages
 conclusion
Introduction
In 1968 German
inventors patent
combination of
plastic cards with
micro chips.
History
 1968
German inventor Jurgen Dethloff along with Helmet
Grotrupp filed a patent for using plastic as a carrier for
microchips.
 1970
Dr. Kunitaka Arimura of Japan filed the first and only
patent on the smart card concept
 1974
Roland Moreno of France files the original patent for the IC
card, later dubbed the “smart card.”
 1977
Three commercial manufacturers, Bull CP8, SGS Thomson,
and Schlumberger began developing the IC card product.
History
 1979
Motorola developed first single chip Microcontroller for
French Banking

 1982
World's first major IC card testing

 1992
Nationwide prepaid card project started in Denmark

 1999
Federal Government began a Federal employee smart card
identification
What is a Smart Card?
Standard credit card-sized with
microchip embedded on it
Two types
Memory-only chips
Microprocessor chips
What is a Smart Card?
 Can hold up to 32,000 bytes
 Newer smart cards have math co-processors
 Perform complex encryption routines
quickly
Construction of Smart Cards
Construction of Smart Cards
Construction of Smart Cards
Construction of Smart Cards
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Examples of Smart Cards
Applications
 Payment System
 Smart Networking
 National ID / Authentication
 University Identification
 Financial Applications
 Retail & Loyalty
 Communication Applications
 Transportation
Payment System
 A payment function is an
integral part of most
smart card applications
because most services
accessible by smart cards
must be paid one way or
the other.
Smart Networking

 Smart card technologies


provide strong security
through encryption as well as
access control, based on
identification technologies
such as biometrics.
National ID / Authentication
 In the wake of 9/11 attack a need has
been felt in many countries for
tamperproof ID cards and a secure
authenticating device. Many countries
all over the world are trying out, and
implementing, the smart card option as
a national identity card.
University Identification
 The traditional student ID card can be
replaced by an all-purpose chip-based
student ID card, containing a variety of
applications such as electronic purse
for vending and laundry machines),
and for use as a library card, and meal
card.
Financial Applications
 Smart cards are being used as an
electronic purse, or epurse, to replace
coins for small purchases in vending
machines and over-the counter
transactions. This area is growing
rapidly in Europe and the U.S.
Retail & Loyalty
 Smart cards are used to record the transactions of the
customer, which are helpful in implementation of
loyalty programs.
 Consumer reward/redemption is tracked on a
smart loyalty card that is marketed to specific
consumer profiles and linked to one or more
specific retailers serving that profile set.
Communication Applications
 The chip-based cards help secure the initiation of calls
and the identification of callers (for billing purposes)
on any Global System for Mobile Communications
(GSM) phone
Transportation
 Mass transit fare collection systems are
using smart tickets, which are easy to
load and redeem for a fare.
Types of Smart Cards
 Contact Cards

 Contactless Cards

 Dual Interface / Combi cards


Contact Cards
 The contact cards need to be in physical contact
with the card reader in order for information to be
exchanged. The integrated circuit on the chip is
connected to a contact plate (typically a gold
plate) on the surface of the card.
 Contact cards make up 91.92% of the total smart
card market as of 2002
Contactless Cards
 Contact-less smart cards contain an embedded
antenna, instead of contact pads attached to the
chip, for reading and writing information contained
in the chip's memory. Contact-less cards do not
have to be inserted into a card acceptor device.
 Student identification, electronic passport, vending
,parking and tolls are common applications for
contact-less cards.
Dual Interface cards
 In more recent developments, there are now cards with
both a contact and a contact less interface (dual
interface or combi-cards).
 These may incorporate two non-communicating chips -
one for each interface - but preferably have a single,
dual interface chip providing the many advantages of a
single e-purse, single operating architecture, etc.
Parts of Smart Card
 Generally, it is made up of
three elements. The plastic
card, a printed circuit or
contact disc and an
integrated circuit chip are
embedded on the card.
Advantages
 Flexibility
 Security
 Portability
 Increasing data storage capacity
 Reliability.
Disadvantages
• NOT tamper proof
• Can be lost/stolen
• Lack of user mobility – only possible if user has smart
card reader every he goes
• Has to use the same reader technology
• Can be expensive
• Working from PC – software based token will be
better
• No benefits to using a token on multiple PCs to using
a smart card
• Still working on bugs
Why Smart Cards?
 Enhanced security
 Offline transactions
 Multifunctional
 Customization
 Economical
 Portable
Future
 Health Services
 Education
 Transportation
 Welfare
 Entitlement Documents
 Telecommunications
Future
Reference
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.com
 www.studymafia.org
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