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Imagine a new Smart Card application and describe it.
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Abstract The use of the smart card has increased dramatically in recent years due to its many advantages over its counterparts and its increasingly cheap manufacture. The future promises ever more uses for the smart card across the entire spectrum of industry and commerce. One potential use is that of the supermarket domain. The local supermarket is a common phenomenon within all major cities and towns and provides us with more than just food in many of our large supermarket chains. This report will describe a potential future application of the smart card within a supermarket chain and describe the benefits that may be gained by the consumer and the organisation. The introduction covers some background of the smart card and details of its advantages over its alternatives. The second section covers the application of the smart card within the supermarket and the benefits that can be obtained through its use. Finally the conclusion consists of a concise summary of the main points identified throughout the report. Introduction The use of smart cards in recent years has expanded through much of the global market. Yet their use still has the potential to increase dramatically in coming years with the improvement in technology and systems surrounding the domain of the card its potential applications increases further. The smart card maintains many advantages over its predecessors or alternatives by being able to handle multi purpose usage. Smart cards can respond ‘intelligently’ to questions that may be posed or scenarios that may arise. The smart card also provides a greatly superior anti-fraud function most commonly through encryption and biometric techniques. It provides extremely reliable user authentication on top of the security inbuilt to the card, the user can define his or her own pin number which they user can change when and where they wish. They are exceptionally secure being able to be built using fusible links (i.e if a circuit is broken within the card it is no longer useable). Finally they make a system using such cards much more efficient, where processing which can be completed on the card itself rather than the system being interfaced with can make things like authorisation much quicker. It can clearly be seen therefore with such great flexibility and security the smart card is certain to find its way into routine use amongst the population of many developed countries. One such domain where it may find routine use is the food industry in particular the supermarket organisations. The following section describes the future application of a smart card within a supermarket organisation. Application Summary The exploitation of existing markets for the application of the smart card has to a great extent been accomplished yet there are still many sectors and applications where the smart card has not yet been explored.
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