First introduced in Europe nearly three decades ago, smart cards debuted as a stored value tool for payphones to reduce theft. As smart cards and other chip-based cards advanced, people found new ways to use them, including charge cards for credit purchases and for record keeping in place of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the U.S., consumers have been using chip cards for everything from visiting libraries to buying groceries to attending movies, firmly integrating them into our everyday lives. Several U.S. states have chip card programs in progress for government applications ranging from the Department of Motor Vehicles to Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBTs). Many industries have implemented the power of smart cards in their products, such as the GSM<\/a> digital cellular phones as well as TV-satellite decoders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First introduced in Europe nearly three decades ago, smart cards debuted as a stored value tool for payphones to reduce theft. As smart cards and other chip-based cards advanced, people found new ways to use them, including charge cards for credit purchases and for record keeping in place of paper. In the U.S., consumers have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03.jpg","featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03.jpg",800,484,false],"landsacpe":["https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03.jpg",800,484,false],"list":["https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03.jpg",800,484,false],"grid":["https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/03-300x182.jpg",300,182,true]},"author_name":"admin","category_names":["Smart Card Overview"],"comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcardbasics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}