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What is a smart card ?

This is a smart card.

Incidentally, it's an I-Card .

A smart card is a plastic card as large as a credit card embedded with an integrated circuit chip.

It is read by a card attached or built into a PC, an Internet terminal or Network Computer.

The chip holds various types of information in electronic form with sophisticated security mechanisms.

Smart cards give rise to an infinite variety of uses that will change many aspects of the way we live.

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Why is it so smart ?

The chip stores information in the microprocessor which makes it much more secure than magnetic stripe cards, which carry information on the outside of the card and can be easily copied.

The intelligence of the chip also offers a read/write capability which allows new information to be added or processed.

For example, users can store digital signatures, e-mail addresses, URLs and other preferences and monetary value can be added and debited.

The smart card market will explode !!

Today there are approximately 1 billion smart cards produced