In this article Iím going to present you with a quick overview
of the Smart Cards and then move on to exploring the ways they
can be integrated to existing services in order to provide value
added services or a new range of secure application. The smart
card communicates with outside world with the help of a reader
and terminal. The reader is a card accepting device, which
consist of a slot into which card may be placed. The reader
provides power and establishes a path through which it can
communicate with the terminal or host computer. Different kinds
of readers are available in the market they may or may not have
the intelligence to process data, error detection and correction
capabilities if there is some problem or the transmitted data do
not compliant with the underlying transport protocol. Terminals
are generally referred to the computers and reader is also one
of its components. Some of the commonly seen terminals are that
are employed in the stores for the payment and other that are
utilized for the t