Information technology plays a vital role for the development of smart
cards. Smart cards can change the form of the delivery of services and goods, through
the automated identification and verification of customers, resulting in significant
efficiency gains and ultimately lower costs for consumers. Smart cards have the
potential of providing privacy's benefits to its users and guaranteeing confidence in
the trustworthiness of commercial organizations and institutions who provides
services to such users.
The diversity of modern networks, the Internet in particular, introduces a lot of
facilities. Currently, all commercial services and applications are tended to be done
through the Internet, such as electronic commerce, electronic funds transfer,
electronic payment, and so forth. Even the office network environment is now
extending to employee's home. Other applications can be banking, accounting,
auditing, distant learning, and electronic voting. The management and accessing of
such services and applications can be facilitated using smart objects like the smart
cards. Accordingly, the employment of such smart cards has increased, and their
applications have spread widely, covering all domains. In the near future, it is
expected that the cash-less society is being dominating due to heavily provision of the
portable secured enough object like the smart cards.
Meanwhile, smart cards are, further employed to support commercial and industrial
applications by providing security services such as authentication and authorization.
In this paper we have introduced smart cards as an efficient smart object. A wide
band of smart card services and applications are introduced, while it is still expected
that such services and applications are spreading.