What is an NFC smart card?

<p>Smart card is very widely used in our life, your id card, bank card, transportation card are all belong to smart card, in addition to a variety of membership CARDS, access control CARDS, shopping CARDS and so on. No matter how different the appearance is, the application field has its own advantages. The core part of it, only one thing can decide it can become a smart card, and that is the microchip in the card.</p><p>It can be divided into contact type and non-contact type according to different chip protocols. Contact chips follow the ISO7816 protocol and non-contact chips follow the ISO14443 protocol. The so-called contact, such as the bank card, you need to insert the bank card into the machine to use, while the non-contact, such as id card, transportation card, just put the card into the induction area to complete the data reading and transmission, using NFC technology.</p><p>Contactless we won't talk about contactless smart CARDS today, NFC smart CARDS.</p><p><a href="https://www.epoxycard.com/products" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><a href="https://www.epoxycard.com/products" target="_blank">NFC smart card</a></strong></a> in life:</p><p>1. Id card</p><p>Since March 29, 2004, the Chinese mainland has officially started to replace the second-generation resident identity CARDS with contactless IC smart chips (NFC chips). The second-generation id card adopts the high-frequency 14443B protocol, with strong confidentiality, and is specially designed for the chip of the ministry of public security.</p><p>2. Transportation card</p><p>Traffic card mainly used M1 card, built-in NFC chip mostly follow ISO14443A protocol. Meanwhile, the bus card is also the application of NFC electronic wallet. The use of traffic card is very wide, traffic travel belongs to the mobile payment field, fierce competition. As more and more intelligent in the field of transportation, the future will be a big change in the form of transportation card, such as the use of mobile phones appeared very early NFC function to simulate traffic card would be changed in the form of transportation card, and the launch of alipay, WeChat electronic transportation card, car yards and brush face into the station and so on, changed the nature of the transportation card original directly.</p><p>3. Entrance card</p><p>Access control card is also one of the important application fields of NFC, such as access card, access control card, parking card, etc., for access control system. Before issuing the access control card to the end user for use, the system administrator shall set the access control card to determine the usable area and user rights. The user shall swipe the access control card to enter the management area.</p><p>4. Other smart CARDS</p><p>NFC application of other smart CARDS, membership CARDS, social security and medicare CARDS.</p>