Smart Card

The pace of the world is changing day by day and so are the technological advancements.

Attendance is an important everyday school activity. A decade ago, attendance was taken at schools by calling out everyone’s name. Now, technology has made the process easier and faster.

The use of smart cards began in the 1980s and since then the technology evolved at an exponential pace.

Let’s look at the following situations: Child losing money sent with him to buy food, stationary or to pay fees Children having to remember and carry all kinds of cards including bus pass, library...

To expand production of its radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers which facilitate the Internet of things, a $35 million has been raised by Alien Technology in a new round of funding.

If you are a fan of Hollywood sci-fi movie s, you might have come across various means of individual identification. Remember the retina scan in Minority Report, finger prick in Gattaca and many more.

Today, people are ready to accept anything that would make their tasks easier. They are always in search of all-in-one packages. Smartphones are a good example of this.

Radio Frequency Identification or RFID as it is called, works by allowing data to be transferred from an RFID tag to a reader.

A smart card is a payment card embedded with a computer chip (RFID technology), and functions more or less like a mini-computer on a card.