Imagine not having to carry all your cards in one wallet. The Drivers License, The Tax Payer Card, Voter's Card, Credit Card, Debit Card etc etc.
The UniCard is a concept with immense upward potential. As would be the initial requirements too. UniCard would be a regular looking smart card with a photo, name, magnetic strip and some gibberish numbers on it. Its speciality would be that it would hold a 512K Sim Card embedded in it. The SIM would be holding a PROM (Not EEPROM for security purposes) on which data would be stored with the highest possible encryption. This card would be an individual specific rather than individual and service specific. Thus, the card could be programmed to serve as a credit card, a tax payer card, voter card etc etc. The card would have two levels of authorization - 1. A Passcode and 2. A Biometric fingerprint.
The UniCard service provider would need to also provide UniCard Scanners which would be built to read the card depending upon the requirement as a Bank Card for Banks, A Driver's License for Traffic Cops etc.
To avoid chaos due to a missing card, each individual subscribing to this service would be issues two similar cards, the secondary being activated only when the primary is locked on request.
This should give a fair idea of the plan, although the actual plan if penned would go on to more than a few hundred pages excluding the technical aspects of the card.
At least our grandchildren would be using this sometime....
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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