Issue
97, August 1998
Designing
for Smart Cards
- Part 2: Practical Implementation
GETTING
SMARTER
Developing
a smart-card system involves all of the points I’ve
discussed—and many more. I didn’t even talk
about the infrastructure of the reader network, reader
software, the card manufacturer, graphics, or the silicon
module.
But, you now
have some more ideas about designing solutions into
smart-card programs at an early stage of development,
when the cost is low.
Smart cards
offer incredible security and can greatly minimize fraud
and theft, so they’re a valuable and cost-effective
solution to many applications.
Figure
3 illustrates the shift in use of smart cards that
is expected over the next few years. Many of today’s
single-use applications are likely to be cost effectively
incorporated onto future multiapplication smart cards.
Bobby Crouch
is a smart-card applications engineer at Motorola. You
may reach Bobby at r23001@email. sps.mot.com.
