Standard credit card-sized plastic cards contain an embedded silicon microchip, known as a smart card. There are two main types: memory-only chips and microprocessor chips. Smart cards can receive, process, and make decisions based on information. They can hold up to 32,000 bytes of data and include math co-processors to perform encryption routines quickly. Smart cards provide flexibility, security, portability and increasing data storage capacity for applications like banking, retail, mobile communications, electronic purses, ID verification, and access control. While advantageous, security remains a disadvantage that developers continue working to address for the future of uses in health, education, transportation, and telecommunications.

1. Smart Card Technology

2. What is a Smart Card?
Standard credit card-sized
plastic card ,with a silicon
microchip embedded on it.
Two types
 Memory-only chips
 Microprocessor chips

3. The card is "smart" because it is
"active", that is that it can receive
information, process it and then
"make a decision".
Can hold up to 32,000 bytes
Newer smart cards have math co-
processors

Perform complex encryption routines
quickly

4. Introduction
In 1968 German inventors patent
combination of plastic cards with micro
chips.

5. Construction of Smart
Cards

7. Construction of Smart Cards
GND
Vcc
Vpp
RST
I/O
CLK
RFU RFU

8. Examples of Smart Cards

9. Examples of Smart Cards

10. Examples of Smart Cards

11. Current Applications
Payphones
Mobile Communications
Banking & Retail
Electronic Purse
Health Care
ID Verification and Access Control

12. Interfaces of Smart Cards
Antenna

13. Interfaces of Smart Cards

14. Different
Smart Card
Readers

15. Advantages
Flexibility
Security
Portability
Increasing data storage capacity
Reliability.

16. Disadvantages
Security

17. Why Smart Cards
Improve the convenience and security of
any transaction.
Provide tamper-proof storage of user and
account identity.
Provide vital components of system
security.
Protect against a full range of security
threats

18. Future
•Health Services
•Education
•Transportation
•Tele-communications

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