Smart Card Implementation Profiles

Organizations worldwide are increasingly using smart cards in secure identification (ID), retail, financial, transit, health care, telecommunications and other applications. The Smart Card Alliance has developed a series of profiles of smart card implementations to showcase how organizations can successfully use smart cards for a wide variety of applications.

Enterprises and Government Organizations

Enterprises and government organizations are implementing new or upgraded ID systems to improve the accuracy of individual identity verification and to add new capabilities that will improve the ID system’s security, functionality, or convenience. Smart cards are becoming the credential of choice for securely controlling physical and logical access.

• Boeing
• Microsoft
• Rabobank
• Shell Group
• Sun Microsystems Java Badge
• Transportation Security Administration Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC)
• U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card

Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare organizations are actively looking for ways to lower administrative costs, increase security and make their information systems easier to use. “Smart” health cards can be used to support HIPAA compliance, increase security, simplify system access and deliver new clinical and administrative benefits. The following profiles showcase how organizations can successfully use smart cards for a wide variety of healthcare applications

• French Sesam Vitale Health Card [PDF, 46K]
• German Health Card [PDF, 29K]
• LifeNexus Personal Health Card [73K]
• Mount Sinai Medical Center Personal Health Card [PDF, 108K]
• Queens Health Network [PDF, 63K]
• Taiwan Health Care Smart Card Project [PDF, 156K]
• Texas Medicaid [PDF, 30K]
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [PDF, 32K]

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Financial and Retail Implementations

The financial and retail industries are all abuzz over the latest payment trend–contactless payment devices.

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Mass Transit Agencies

Mass transit agencies have been using stored value, pre-paid cards for electronic ticketing since the 1970’s. Through the 1990’s this market steadily began transitioning from magnetic stripe technology to contactless smart cards. Today, virtually all new transit fare payment systems either in the delivery or procurement stages involve the use of contactless smart cards as the primary ticket media. Already, major deployments are up and operational in a variety of cities worldwide, including Hong Kong, Seoul, Pusan, Washington, D.C., and Shanghai. Many of these transit deployments are also planning to use the same contactless smart payment card across multiple modes of transportation in a region and with retailers who could benefit from fast, convenient contactless payment.

• Hong Kong Octopus Card
• London Oyster Card
• San Francisco Bay Area TransLink
• Ventura County Transit Smart Card
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - SmarTrip

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