Card Tech

Card Tech is an Italian company focused on the research, development and marketing of biometric mobile devices. Card Tech’s mission is to improve the life of people creating innovative, secure and user-friendly solutions and products. To grant the security of its products, Card Tech leverages the combined use of biometrics for a secure user authentication and secure RFID/NFC communications. In the smart cards market, the company has developed an ISO7810 ID-1 and ISO 7816 compliant card embedding a thin and flexible touch fingerprint sensor, that allows for a secure match-on-system. Full compatibility with current infrastructure is granted, both in payments, via POSs and ATMs, both in the identification, with smart card readers, turnstiles, RFID/NFC totems. Card Tech’s worldwide patented technology ensures the highest privacy standards to the users, in fact their sensible biometric data are saved only inside the Smart Card’s encrypted memory, always under their control. At the same time, a seamless adoption is guaranteed to issuers and corporations since the investment in central biometric database will be unnecessary, with obvious cost savings, for instance in insurances, and reduction of identity frauds. Card Tech’s goal is to make everyday payments and physical/logical accesses more secure and convenient, easing usability and improving life quality.