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Abstract
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These days, many smart cards are used to save effort and time and increase safety, but with the increased cards usage, the number of cards per person increased and became a burden on its holder, so it became essential that the number of applications provided by the cards be applied and stored into one card that carries these applications.
This thesis aims to review the literature about prior Smart Multi-Applications Card (SMC) Systems and to find the resource needed for best evaluation and implantation of the system. A model will be designed to reach this target. The model will be tested and the results will be obtained in a way that enables the evaluation and comparison with the available research.
In this thesis, we present the concept of SMC. This type of cards can be used for different purposes. Here, we used the card for four different applications and purposes including the storing of medical insurance information, traffic and police services information in addition to use of the card as a personal identification card. We presented the ideas of the different applications together in one smart card. Thus, a person doesn’t need to carry many cards in his wallet but rather a single card for different purposes.
The card is actually a hardware circuitry which is programmed for the intended applications. The hardware is distributed by the company “CardLogix” with a programing tool called “M.O.S.T.Toolz”. The programming process aims to divide the card memory into a number of areas that match the number of required applications. These areas are used to store the information of the card holder belonging to the different applications. The information of these areas is linked to a database we designed to store the actual records of the card holder.
As the maximum capacity for our card (EEPROM) was 144 Kbytes, we linked our SMC system to the database that has much larger storage capacity. Also, the SMC can be expanded to include additional applications. Applications are separated from each other, but the programmer allows the card to share some parameters of the other applications.
Owing to scarcity of SMC technology and resources in Egypt, it is important to facilitate importation process of these tools and to start this technology with the four fields mentioned earlier; personal identification, medical insurance, police and traffic systems that potentially can be expanded to many other fields in the nearby future. Application of our proposed system has the potentials to do and to leverage digital transformation of the country in most of the government sectors and their practices.
Different levels of security to the card was done based on the selected section eg ID wasn’t encrypted to make it easily available to the card reader. On the other side, other sections as health information had low encryption to avoid delay especially in emergency situations and accidents. Medium level of security was established in police sections to avoid attacks on the recorded data.
The thesis is composed of 5 chapters. Chapter (1) introduces an introduction and chapter (2) discusses a literature review. Chapter (3) explains the methodology of this work and chapter (4) illustrates the results of the thesis. Chapter (5) gives some conclusions and highlights some points for the future research.