Why cid-button card?
Reference
Identification
Cid-button
U niq ue
Smart Card
ha rd w a r e No hardware ID, easy
global ID.
Durability
replication.
Non-tamper
proof. Easily
tamper-able
Physically /chemically. physically /chemically.
Digital Secu-
Fool-proof with 64bit Digitally
rity
hardware and 128 bit pered by smart card
Se curity duplicating
Layer (SSL) software.
Tag Writer
gadgets
easily available.
Simple
1-wire
tech- Technically
nology
which
func- cated expensive
complihigh
tions as writer cum maintenance writers.
Tag Reader
reader as per secu- Separate
technically
rity rights and user complicated expensive
authentication.
high
maintenance
electronic reader.
Scalability
Easy, quick & cheap.
Total Cost of
30%
Ownership
Smart Card.
cheaper
CITIZEN IDENTIFICATION CARD
tam-
Not possible
than Card cost low, but the
total cost of ownership
is high.
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1. Introduction
3. ‘cid-button card’
Personal identification has been a much worked field. Companies have come out of various technologies from magnetic
tape, to smart cards to biometric. All technologies have their
own pros and cons with respect to technology and environment of the technology application. The technology which is
most durable and resilient but cost effective can only be a
technology for masses.
The ‘cid-button card’consists of the
main i-button, impregnated in the plastic
or synthetic card. A customer can input
data in the device, as per the requirement and the target application of the
citizen identification card.
Satmac Infosys Ltd, with it’s technology partner
Maxim Integrated Products, USA brings a unique
technology to develop a product ‘cid-button
card’. The technology backbone is a chipbased steel cased product ‘i-button’ from Maxim, which has
been reoriented by Satmac Infosys Ltd. to work with applications like ‘E‘E-Governance’.
2. Legacy Technology
The generally used technology for identification card, has been
bar-coded, magnetic tape, or most recent smart cards. Technologies keep on developing, and also the lacunas of the last
technology become the points of improvement of the new
technology. Bar-coded, magnetic tape, or smart cards they all
come with the biggest problem—tampering and damage of
data.
Technologies like biometric or iris are personal identification
technologies, which is good in captive environment, and cannot be issued by authorities as ID-cards.
‘cid-button card’ omits all issues of damage and data tampering, by casing the patented microprocessor in stainless steel, and
giving a security of 64bit hardware and 128bit
software (during accessibility) encryption. This
is a classic example of ‘merged IT and Security operation’. The
TCO is low compared to other technologies like smart card.
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Card Construction
The plastic card, will be photo i-card. The photo will be either
scanned or directly taken from a digital camera, and imported
to the software application.
Data Storage
‘cid-button card’ can be hold upto 64kb of data. It can
store ASCII format data to photographs of the card holder
(compressed) and even finger-prints. Critical data like blood
group or driving license details, passport details can be stored.
Interface
The interface of reading, as well as writing is a
single wire technology and contact based. The
wire is connected to the computer / PDA via serial or USB interface. The 1-wire technology acts
as reader. In case of the writing data on the
chip / button, one has to pass the authentication, and then
data can be written using the same 1-wire which acts as
reader.
Software
‘cid-button card’ can be programmed with any software
interface viz. C, C++, DotNet, Java, Linux. We develop the application based on the customer requirement and kind of information that needs to be stored. Either it can be an application
that can interface ‘cid-button card’ to existing software, or it
can be a separate software with ‘cid-button card’ application
integrated in the mother software.