Card Technologies

VMC develops and supplies cashless payment solutions designed to partner and integrate with existing software and applications.

We work in partnership with a number of leading manufacturers to ensure that the client has a totally integrated system – ranging from high level security, with restricted door entry if required, to photo identification, facial recognition, time and attendance, photocopy control and IT secure authentication.

This is a key element of VMC’s ‘one card does it all’ easy to manage, economical and reliable system.

MIFARE®

MIFARE® fully compliant with ISO 14443A, is an industry standard contactless and dual interface smart card schemes. It is a well proven RF communication technology for transmitting data between a card and a reader device.

For multi-application cards, the MIFARE® Standard IC can support up to 15 different applications on the chip, each with its own dedicated keys and memory area.

Today, over 200 million MIFARE® Standard ICs are in use around the globe, covering more than 85% (source: Frost & Sullivan, 2000) of the contactless smart card market. As such, MIFARE® Standard represents the de-facto industry standard and is the benchmark for competing technologies.

LEGIC®

The LEGIC® contactless smart card technology has been developed to ideally support the design of applications such as access control, cashless payment, IT access and other person related services providing maximum security, scalability and cost-effective investment protection. With over 50,000 installations and over 160 licensed cooperation partners world-wide LEGIC® is a leading technology platform for any kind of single and multifunctional company and leisure cards.

• State-of-the-art 13.56 MHz passive read/write
• Multi-industry standard compliant (ISO 15693, 14443 and LEGIC RF)
• Read/write range from proximity (20cm) up to hands-free (1.2m)
• Advanced high security up to 3DES encryption
• Up to 127 user applications on one card
• High security key management

iCLASS

HID Corporation, iCLASS, a new contactless smart card technology optimized for physical access control, IT secure authentication, and other applications. iCLASS is user-friendly, delivering the convenience, affordability and reliability of proximity technology for which HID is known worldwide. iCLASS technology is based on the 13.56 MHz frequency which meets numerous ISO standards aloowing a broader range of uses for the card.

iCLASS cards and readers offer several unique features that put it a step ahead of traditional radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. These features include:

• Cryptographic data storage
• Mutual authentication
• Secure reading and writing of data
• User definable access keys

All radio frequency data transmission between the card and reader is encrypted using a secure algorithm. By using industry standard encryption techniques, iCLASS reduces the risk of compromised data or duplicated cards. For even higher security, card data may also be protected with DES or triple DES encryption.