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`History of Smart Cards
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`Milestones in the development of smart card technology:
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`1970 – Dr. Kunitaka Arimura of Japan led the rst and only patent on the smart card concept.
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`1974 – Roland Moreno of France led the original patent for the IC card, later dubbed the “smart card”.
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`1977 – Three commercial manufacturers, Bull CP8, SGS Thomson, and Schlumberger began developing the
`IC card.
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`1979 – Motorola developed the rst secure single chip microcontroller for use in French banking.
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`1982 – Field testing of serial memory phone cards took place in France – the world’s rst major IC card test.
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`1984 – Field trials of ATM bank cards with chips were successfully conducted.
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`1986 – 14,000 cards equipped with the Bull CP8 were distributed to clients of the Bank of Virginia and the
`Maryland National Bank. 50,000 Casio cards were distributed to clients of First National Palm Beach Bank
`and the Mall Bank.
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`1987 – First large-scale smart card application implemented in the United States with the U.S. Department
`of Agriculture’s nationwide Peanut Marketing Card.
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`1987- smart-card-based drivers license in Turkey
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`1991 – First Electronic Benets Transfer (EBT) smart card project launched for the Wyoming Special
`Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
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`1992 – A nationwide prepaid (electronic purse) card project (DANMONT) was started in Denmark.
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`1993 – Field test of multi-function smart card applications in Rennes, France, where the Telecarte function
`(for public phones) was enabled in a Smart Bank Card.
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`1994 – Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) published joint specications for global microchip-based bank
`cards (smart cards).
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`Germany began issuance of 80 million serial memory chip cards as citizen health cards.
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`1995 – Over 3 million digital mobile phone subscribers worldwide begin initiating and billing calls with smart
`cards.
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`The rst of 40,000 multi-functional, multi-technology MARC cards with chips were issued to U.S. Marines in
`Hawaii.
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`1996 – Over 1.5 million VISACash stored value cards were issued at the Atlanta Olympics.
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`MasterCard and Visa began sponsorship of competing consortia to work on solving the problems of smart
`card interoperability. Two different card solutions were developed: the JavaCard backed by Visa, and the
`Multi-application Operating System (MULTOS) backed by MasterCard.
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`1998 – The U.S. Government’s General Services Administration and the United States Navy joined forces and
`implemented a nine-application smart card system and card management solution at the Smart Card
`Technology Center in Washington, D.C. The Technology Center’s primary purpose is to demonstrate and
`evaluate the integration of multi-application smart cards with other types of technology, showcasing
`systems available for use in the Federal Government.
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`Microsoft announced its new Windows smart card operating system.
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`France began piloting a smart health card for its 50 million citizens.
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`1999 – Smart Access Common ID Project. Federal agencies to acquire a standard, interoperable employee
`identication card. The U.S. Government (General Services Administration) starts true multi-application Java
`card pilot in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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`2001 – Global Platform Specication 2.1
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`2001 –  Independent smart  card expertise available from smart card expert Jacquinot Consulting, Inc.
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`2002 – Estonia citizen smart card
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`2005 – EMV compliant cards introduced in Malaysia
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`2006 – contactless payment system infrastructure in the U.S.
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`2009 – Belgium and Spain eID identication cards
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`2012 – Millions of PIV and CAC cards deployed in the U.S.
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`2014 – 3.4 billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide; U.S. introduces EMV cards
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