1. Development History of Smart Card
Smart card is a kind of IC card. According to different types of embedded chips, IC card can
be divided into three categories: memory card, logic encrypt card and CPU card.
IC card is short for integrated circuit card, and in some countries it is also called “smart card”,
chip card, and so on. A dedicated integrated circuit chip is embedded in a PVC (ABS) plastic
substrates meeting the ISO7816 Standard, then is encapsulated into a shape similar to the
magnetic card, and that is an IC card. Of course it can be encapsulated into buttons, keys,
jewelry, and other special shapes.
IC card idea was initially raised by the Japanese. In December 1969, Kunitaka Arimura from
Japan proposed a method of manufacturing reliable and secure credit card and received the
patent in 1970, which was then called ID card (Identification Card). In 1974, Roland Moreno
from France invented a plastic card with an integrated circuit chip, and received the patent,
which was the early IC card. In 1976, Bull Company in France developed the world's first IC
card. In 1984, France PTT (Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones) used IC cards for calling
cards. Thanks to good security and reliability of IC card, it got an unexpected success.
Subsequently, the United Technical Committee of ISO (International Standardization
Organization) and the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) developed a set of
international standards and norms, which greatly promoted the research and development of
IC card.
Compared with identification cards ever before, IC card has the following characteristics: first,
high reliability. IC card has antimagnetic and anti-static, mechanical damage and chemical
destruction prevention capacity. Information can be saved for more than 100 years. Read
and write times are of 100,000 or more, for at least 10 years; the second is safe; third, large
storage capacity, and the forth, various types. From a global perspective, now application
range of “smart card” is no longer limited to the early communication, but is widely used in
finance, social insurance, traffic and tourism, health care, public administration, retail, leisure,
school management and other areas.
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