A sensible description of application areas and valuable characteristics of Smart Cards in these areas is needed here. Anybody willing to write it?
The basic contact smart card standard is the ISO 7816 series, part 1- 10 while contactless cards will be governed by the ISO 14443 standard. These standards are derived from the identification card standards and detail the physical, electrical, mechanical, and application programming interface. Below is a list of the contact card standards.
