| Home | Updated: May 1, 2002 |
| Home | Updated: May 1, 2002 |
Development and deployment of smart cards and systems
We are developing and deploying technologies related to the state-of-the-art smart card, which is expected to be part of the information infrastructure of the future.
With the development of thestate-of-the-art smart card, we hope to realize the interoperability of private enterprises, i.e. the development of the Contactless Smart Card for standard ISO/IEC 10536 which is the first in the world, and the Contactless Smart Card/hybrid Optical Memory card for medical information use. The smart card with very large capacity on the hybrid card system has been realized.
We have been conducting software development of Contents Access Manager (CAM) that allow open implementation of the data to be stored on the smart card. CAM has been added to the regional card system of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and endorsed in the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. It is used in Takikawa city in Hokkaido, Miki city, Sumoto city, and Goshiki town in Hyougo prefecture as one of the projects of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry which is subject to continuous improvement. The EU and our association have also developed the G7-CAM which allows us to use the same technology.
We implemented a verification experiment for a multipurpose smart card system experiment in Takikawa, Hokkaido. The cards contained a shopping point service system used at sopping centers and health maintenance services with CAM. We also implemented wide area/multipurpose experiments, which allowed userd to add or delete service functions on the smart card. Some of the services offered local government Identification and resort facilities point services in the Masuda region, Gifu prefecture.
Additionally we tested a next generation smart card verification system based on the current commonly used system in Yokosuka, Kanagawa.
One of our aims is to introduce a concrete model for a new generation of smart card systems. This system, once tested and verified technically possible, will allow users to utilize smart cards safely, conveniently, and continuously. Our intention is to introduce a system architecture solution, which will offer high security and multi-applications, be vendor independent, and have high as well as excellent service interoperability by adhering to the ISO 14443 standard. This standard focuses on contactless interfaces with an antenna internal to the card and addresses problems with non-compatibility.
By cooperating with European smart card system enterprises, which are currently very advanced, it is hoped that a higher degree of interoperability can be achieved for Japanese enterprises in the area of greater for facilitation of e-commerce both for public and private sector usage.
Our plan is to conduct research adhering to international standards in the area of the contactless interface of the smart card to the reader/writer and security.
