Smart Card Advantages. What are the advantages of smart cards?

Compared to conventional data transmission devices such as magnetic-stripe cards, smart cards offer enhanced security, convenience and economic benefits. In addition, smart card-based systems are highly configurable to suit individual needs. Finally, the multi functionality as payment, application and networking devices renders a smart card as a perfect user interface in a mobile, networked economy. Security Smart cards incorporate encryption and authentication technologies that can implement issuer's and user's requirements for the highest degree of …

…establish a personalized network connection anywhere in the world using a phone center or an information kiosk. Web servers will verify the user's identity and present a customized Web page, an e-mail connection and other authorized services based on the data read from a smart card.Personal settings for electronic appliances, including computers, will be stored in smart cards rather than in the appliances themselves. Phone numbers are stored in smart cards instead of phones.