What’s a smart card?

A smart card resembles a PVC credit card in size and shape and embedded a contact & contactless chip for data transfer and store.

Types of Smart Cards

Magnetic stripe cards. A magnetic stripe card has a strip of magnetic tape material attached to its surface. …

Optical cards. Optical cards use some form of laser to read and write to the card.

Memory cards. …

Microprocessor cards.

Advantages of smart cards:

The first main advantage of smart cards is their flexibility. Smart cards have multiple functions which simultaneously can be an ID, a credit card, a stored-value cash card, and a repository of personal information such as telephone numbers or medical history.

Might be promptly reconfigured

Reusable

Secure transactions

Gives more security

More tough and dependable

Permit numerous provisions to be saved in one card

Here will share with you of smart cards uses:

1, Blank ID card for employee’s badge & access control

There is a UID number in ID card chip to identify each employee, name badge cards using for attendance register & access control. Also can be in different formats like 125khz RFID fob, 125khz RFID bracelet.

2, Plastic identity card with printing used for smart voting cards

Plastic photo id cards for government & company’ voting event, only one vote per delegate is allowed. The PVC card with chip stores all details of delegates’.

Government Applications: custom plastic badges are being used by the Government to issue identity cards to an individual, which contains all the details of the individual. An example is Nigeria voting cards with Fudan 4K chip.

Secured Physical access: custom badge cards can be used by organizations or differed public areas to provide authorized access to the employees, (members of the organization) or other persons to the secured areas. The printing id cards on plastic generally contain identity details of the individual which is scanned and checked.

3, RFID proximity card for car parking

Automated parking system using RFID technology applied too much in our daily life. A smart proximity card is inevitable for access control, as well as a payment card. Whenever there is an RFID technology in parking lot access system, a smart RFID access card for the parking garage is needed.

4, Much important for ID cards in school –Student tap card

Students’ ID cards and custom photo badge is the proof of identity as a student in this school, to a large extent to ensure the safety of students. What’s more, it’s the key to the door of dormitory & library. HF chip combined with UHF can be tracking students’ locations and attendance.

Also can be a student tap card to make consumption in the school, such as library and canteen.

5, Event ID cards as E-ticket

E-ticket for event, festival, exhibition, trade show instead of paper ticket save lots of resources, especially for repeated customers. On the other hand, the holder can collect information about visitors.

6, Hotel key card

Wherever you go to the hotel, you cannot see the normal key anymore, the plastic key card to be the main key to the door now. Not only the key but also the connector to the power, it’s convenient and safe. What’s more, the hotel RFID key cards with printing your logo and brand, it’s a good promotion card.

7, Smart loyalty cards for small business

How to win the loyalty of clients for small business? Smart loyalty cards play an important role. Every owner distributes their loyalty cards, point cards, VIP cards almost covered any industry such as golf gift cards, spa cards, cards for a pizza shop, cinema gift cards, coffee loyalty cards, prepaid supermarket cards, clubs cards, shop gift cards, clothes store cards.

8, NFC business card

Wherever you go, you do not need hand your business card out, just take your card tap somebody’s mobile phone and take this back to your pocket.

However, the mobile phone must have an NFC function to access. NFC card is a useful and approach card.

If you go to a fair, you do not take a lot of business card, even everyone needs your business card, you just take one card and tap, tap, tap. The card size is regular, like a standard credit card will not take much place.

9, Medical card, Health Care card

Consumer health card comprising insurance eligibility, information, and emergency medical data. Patient cards are used to look up the illness record to avoid mistakes especially for the old. As well as, for the payment, make up a prescription.

10, Playing cards

Custom NFC cards insert the toys, like a yoyo, racing bicycle, car to calculate a number of turns or times, make the results more accurate and fair.

11, Study cards

Study machine with a set of NFC study cards to teach children to speak, sing and arithmetic. Let children have fun in their studies and free up time for adults.

12, Bank card application

The most prominent use of the smart card in banking application is the replacement of the traditional magnetic stripe-based credit or debit card. An example is the Master Card and VISA.

13, Wireless communication

Sim card is the most widely used, almost everyone has it, using for wireless communication in the mobile phone, RFID reader, checkpoint system to transfer data in real time.

14, Transportation cards

Smart cards are widely used in transportation, bringing great convenience to passengers all over the world. Just a transportation card can be used to take a variety of transportation. Like the metro card, public transport card, smart card for bus or bus pass card. Even the card itself can be a gift card.

15, Pre-paid card for your life

The e-payment system has brought great convenience to the public. With a contactless smart card, you can pay all kinds of fees after recharging. Gas Fees, gas pipes, Television Broadcasts fees, and various living expenses in the community.

16, Checking and management of warehouse

In the smart retail system with RFID system clothing store, clothes and shoes attached with the smart tag, for inventory management. More efficient inventory budget, and accurate calculation.

17, Supermarket Cards

You can go to the supermarket and shop without having to hold the product in one hand and flip through the change in the other. The transaction is completed with a swipe of a smart card after each purchase. Easy shopping gives people more time to enjoy life.

18, ID cards for animals

Animals are easy to be lost, with an ID card for animals, people can find their master easily by getting the contact information stored in the memory card.

19, Personal identification card

Everyone should have an Identity card, and till now, Hong Kong and Macao passport changed into chip cards.

20, Anti-counterfeiting cards for jewelry

Smart cards can help customers identify authenticity, help enhance brand integrity, some selling high-end goods to ensure the quality of products as a trademark. Jewelry, for example, comes with a chip card that records ingredients, origin, brand, and so on.

21, An appointment card

Community residents can use smart card technology to use public sports facilities. At the community cultural center, residents only need to insert their smart identity card to enter their personal information for booking the venue. And you can use your smart card to pay for it.

22, UHF cards for ETC system

The pace of urban life is accelerating, people’s travel needs the support of an intelligent system. ETC systems are used in tunnels and toll roads. There is no need to stop on a toll road. Simply walk through the lane with the tag reader installed, and the system will deduct it from the pre-paid account.

23, Checkpoint Cards

Tracking security doing their rounds around the property during their shifts no longer need a guard stand there to sign up every employee’s name. Use a guard system with checkpoint tags and identification cards perfectly manage each shift.

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