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Smart Cards: One Time Password (OTP) and Store Value Cards

E-Paper Displays with Dot Matrix and Color Display Extend the Range of Applications for Smart Display Cards

Revolutionary developments of RFID Smart Display Cards are nearly ready for the market. E-paper displays with dot matrix and color display were going to provide entirely new options to display information, reports Yiwen Jin, Managing Director B-Id in an interview with „RFID im Blick“. The company has already achieved great progress in the developments of Smart Display Cards and offers all ISO card types with One Time Passwort (OTP) function for online banking applications, for instance. B-Id now works at full speed on the development of further innovative functions that are going to enter the next development stage in the course of next year. „Currently we are testing the service life of a Smart Card battery that can be recharged via NFC interface. This battery could be used to power functions, such as displays or sensors which require internal energy supply.“

Yiwen Jin, Managing Director B-Id, in an interview with Dunja Kandel, „RFID im Blick“

Full Service Provider for any kind of Plastic Cards

Fis Organisation has always put its focus clearly on the capability of supplying their customers at any time with the desired identification media at an attractive price. Regardless of whether the customer requires a standard card such as Legic, Mifare or Hitag, or a completely new transponder to be developed. A customer appealing to Fis Organisation, will be satisfied – as far as it is realizable in view of physical limits and the available budget.

SMARTRAC is market leader in the government ID inlay business, according to the new study from ABI Research. 

ABI’s competitive assessment of this sector places SMARTRAC top overall, with an estimated 40 million units shipped during the first half of 2014, for a market share of nearly 15%. The ABI report also scores SMARTRAC highly 9 out of 10 in terms of market influence, largely based on its strong partnership position, which boasts the leading, active vendors within the government ID segment globally.

The worldwide yearly consumption of RFID tags has greatly exceeded the 1 billion mark and shows further tendencies of grow

The production of tickets and labels has become highly automated and is usually carried out on highly productive roll-roll-systems. Currently, the technolgy is most widely used in logistics, ticketing, and retail. Away from the mass markets, there are applications that require labels and similar products in smaller quantities in a customized format and print/ design. One of the specialties of Plasticard-ZFT is the production of RFID labels and tags in runs between 100 and 100,000.

Tags used HID Global technology to eliminate abuse from out-of-home (OOH) campaigns with security and privacy attributes that change on every tap.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, and Tamoco, a global leader in mobile marketing technology and analytics, today announced the successful use of HID Trusted Tag™ Services in the world’s first out-of-home (OOH) promotional campaign for Tribeca Film Festival 2014. Over the course of the four-day promotion, film fans seeking free passes “tapped” promotional posters 8,195 times with 1,156 unique mobile devices.

Access Control

Security Implementation for Smart Devices Has to Be User Friendly and Risk-Independent at the Same Time

Whether smartphone or NFC-capable tablet pc – smart devices were going to replace the card as identification medium in the long term, is Dirk Losse, Principal Pre-Sales Consultant Central Europe and Turkey, convinced. „We further promote the consolidation of access credentials. NFC will play a major role regarding user-friendliness and thus be a driver for security implementation and the ability of managing identities simply and cost-efficiently.“

Interview between Dirk Losse, Principal Pre-Sales Consultant Central Europe and Turkey, HID Global, and "RFID im Blick"

Reliable authentication anywhere anytime using digital counterfeiting protection by Schreiner ProSecure

An inferior copy or a high-grade original product? At interpack in Düsseldorf (May 8 – 14), at the joint VDMA booth (hall 05, booth J38), Schreiner ProSecure will be showcasing security technologies that provide quick answers to this question. With digital counterfeit protection features that can be read by using a smartphone, authenticity can be easily determined and the supply chain secured.

Micro Payment and Data Security

It is the customer's decision

Card-based NFC payment systems are further expanded. Currently, mobile payment is not yet a secure alternative

Girogo, the NFC payment system of the Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft, was brought underway in 2012. Meanwhile, the goal is in sight. In technical terms, a complete change of card reader generations is taking place, and all new readers are capable of reading contactless cards within the next five years, as Frithjof Walk, Feig Electronic, is convinced. With an increasing number of use cases, the user will benefit more and more from the advantages of contactless payment.

NFC-Sticker as an innovative payment tool at Booth 30

From April 6 to 9, the International Card Manufacturers Association will be hosting the ICMA EXPO in Fort Lauderdale. One of the key topics there will be the influence of NFC and mobile payment on the card manufacturing industry. Schreiner PrinTrust will be showcasing a solution that combines the advantages of contactless cards with the convenience of integrated NFC solutions for mobile phones at the exhibition. The NFC-Sticker turns any handset into a cashless means of payment which is readily available and works in the existing payment infrastructure.

Consumer Market

NFC and Cloud for End Users

Self-adhesive NFC stickers – for private use, as electronic business card, for contactless location-based settings, or to set the alarm clock automatically when the smartphone is put onto the nightstand – there is a broad range of creative possibilities. In addition to the online NFC label shop tapme.eu, Rako Security-Label starts the RFID Cloud to allow companies and end users to manage their RFID devices independent of time and place.