CARTES in North America will gather international leading companies as well as innovative SMEs, who come to present an extensive range of products, equipment and services related to smart security, innovative payment solutions and identification.

 The whole value-chain is represented:

 Cards, devices, data processing equipment manufacturing

•  Machinery, components, OEM modules, tests & measurement
•  Packaging, mailing
•  End products: cards, mobile phones, terminals and other smart objects

 
 Software and security systems

•  Data security
•  Mobile and terminal security
•  IT security and authentication

 
 Engineering / Services

•  Engineering, software & systems
•  Electronic Data Interchange / Dematerialization (M2M, Trusted third parties)

 
 Identification

•  Biometric technologies, identification, authentication, Trusted technologies
•  Physical and logical access control
•  Auto ID and Internet of Things

A wide range of new products and solutions

CARTES in North America will represent a unique opportunity to discover new products, meet new suppliers and find out about the latest trends of the market.

• Cards, smart cards

Innovation in applications, services and new form factors is the main motive of smart card manufacturers’ activity.

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• NFC, contactless  

NFC technology (Near Field Communication), should be deployed in 2011 with the arrival of mobile handsets including NFC.

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• Payment solutions, transactions

• Terminals and readers 

Growth factors for the manufacturers of payment terminals depend on the development of the banking sector (EMV standard adoption, banking services in emerging countries, contactless payment).

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• Identification and authentication 

The identity and security market is a major application market  for smart cards, boosted by governmental initiatives in the USA.  

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• Biometrics

In relation to security, the most dynamic sector at the moment is control of access to public and private buildings, as well as identity verification by measurement of a physical characteristic (biometric passport, electronic passport, Citizens' ID).

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• Personnalisation, printing 

The personnalisation of cards is proposed by card manufacturers who offer standard delivery and address large markets and by SMEs with more specific and flexible offers.

• M2M, Auto ID

Although millions of machines and smart objects are communicating with each other, M2M technology is still at its early stage of its evolution, but with huge potential. Objects communicating through the IP network will represent billions of smart objects in the next ten years.

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