The smart card market is one of the fastest growing branches of the semi-conductor industry today. By and large, the smart card products are on the verge of becoming a mass market. This these, which examines a framework, provides an extended business model, the major trend in this market: multi-applications cards.
Based on the current market dynamics, the geographical spread of the worldwide smart cards market will change dramatically in the next five years. While smart card technology continues to expand on traditional banking applications at a regular pace, the key market driver for the next few years will be the continued development of multi-applications, including Internet access and eCommerce. The high penetration of multi-application cards over the past five years has created a large user base, and a significant potential for eCommerce usage. This study proves the highest potential of the smart card market lies in the combination between some of these applications, namely multi-application cards. Within the microprocessor smart card market, the dynamics of the main segments are as follows: Java cards, Contactless cards, MultiOS.
This these examines the different inhibitors and drivers, market trends and applications for each segment. It also reviews major product lines and presents some showcase projects for each of the main applications. By tracking all the advanced cases and standard & technology trend, this these sets up a framework, which assumes 4 evolving phases. Finally it provides how to introduce appropriate smart card BMs into their existing business. This business model may help business players position in eCommerce.
