Smart Card Technology

Smart card are of two types name as contact and contactless. Smart card is a plastic card that contains an embedded computer chip–either a memory or microprocessor to stores and transacts data.

Data is transacted by a reader. To know about the various readers exist in market please visit our smart card section.

While traditionally barcode encoding schemes represented only numbers such as the twelve digits of product identifiers called UPCs, newer symbologies add new characters such as uppercase letters, or even the complete ASCII character set. The drive to encode more information in combination with the space requirements of simple barcodes led to the development of matrix codes (a type of 2D barcode), which do not consist of bars but rather a grid of square cells (see images at right). In contrast, a longer-lived technology called Stacked barcodes are a compromise between true 2D barcodes and linear codes (also known as 1D barcodes), and are formed by taking a traditional linear symbology and placing it in an "envelope" that allows multiple rows

Key applications where people are using smart cards are

• Healthcare
• Banking
• Entertainment
• Transportation

It is estimated that worldwide smart card shipments will grow on an average of 10% every year.

applications where people use barcode or magnetic stripe cards are converting to smart card based solutions.

It has been noted and proved that Smart cards can improve the convenience and security of transactions.

They provide tamper-proof storage of user and account identity.

loyalty programs that track and provide incentives to repeat customers is an another application where Smart card can be used. Smart card application can be used as debit card application and clubs are the main user of these sort of application. BSD Infotech provides both the Loyalty application as well as club management software.