Smart Cards

Key Attributes and Limitations

	Growth area of AIDC technologies
	Growing and fairly substantial support base for applications
	Read/write and processing technology
	Contact or close proximity (contactless cards) read capability
	Medium to reasonably high data storage capabilities
	Relatively low cost cards and read technology
	Enhanced security capabilities over other card-based technologies, offering selective access to data and areas of read-only data.  Encryption is used to further enhance security.