Smart cards with an integrated fingerprint sensor
You will find below smart cards (or the like) containing an integrated fingerprint sensorsorted by companies in chronological order of appearance.
The products in reverse chronological order is also available.
See also :
The Rise of Biometric Cards (2018 Q4) / Antonio D'Albore & JF Mainguet for the sensor section is a very comprehensive documentcontaining a lot of information.
Siemens / Infineon
Thomson-CSF
- (1999 Jul) Proof of concept of a smart card with a swipe sensor, the FingerChip.
- Application note
ID Technologies
- (2000 Mar) Proof of concept of a full recognition done within a smart card shape size made by Bill Lane.
Giesecke & Devrient
- (2002) Prototype with an Infineon sensor.
- (2004?) MoSTAR Biocard with an embedded swipe sensor from Fingerprint Cards.
Biometric Associates, Inc. (BAI)
- (2002) Henny van der Velden is able to present his brain child to the world: the first Credit - or ID - card with an integrated 3-D fingerprint sensor.
- (2002) Biometric Associates
- Super Smart Card with E-Smart technologies
NovaCard / FingerCard
- (2002) Novacard with Biometric Associates.
- (2002) Fingercard with Novacard (Same as Siemens?).
Likely to be the same project:
- (2004) Zorg HSB smart card
- (2004) Fasme (Facilitating Administrative Services for Mobile Europeans)
- (2005) Novacard with a Upek swipe sensor (Louis Molholm / Card Factory)
Quard Card
- (2004) Quard (www.quard.dk) shows the QuardCard. Upek sensor, then likely Fingerprint Cards.
- Brochure
- (2007) QuardCard with Upek sensor.
Scanecotech
- (2005 Apr) Scandinavian Ecotechnologies [www.scanecotech.com] presents a biometric card with an embedded swipe sensor likely from Fingerprint Cards.
Card_Lab
- (2006) first and second biometric card proof of concept (no image / likely the one from ScanEcotech)
- (2009) production of CardLab first biometric card (FPC1080A).
- (2010 Apr): CardLab Biometric sensor. Video on ing.dk
- (2014) first customer contract of biometric card
- (2014) Epic One card.
- (2015) first biometric card customer delivery
Quardlock
- (2016 Jan) New card developed in cooperation with QuardLock
- (2017 Feb) QuardCard is an Horizon 2020 project with QuardLock.
- (2017 Sep) Uses the FPC1080A T-Shape module from Fingerprint Cards.
- (2018 Dec) A new OTP + fingerprint seen on Twitter.
E-Smart technologies
- (2003) Super Smart Card [www.e-smarttechnologies.com]
- (2004) BioSensor [www.biosensorhawaii.com] Fingerprint sensor FPS
- E-Smart Korea [www.esmartkorea.com]
- (2005 Mar) still at project state, no real device available?
- (2008 Jan) e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., announces Next Generation Superthin Polyimide Flexible Circuit Biometric Super Smart Card™ card, the “i am”™ Card.
- (2009 Jun) TFTs Used as Fingerprint Sensors for Smart Cards [techon.nikkeibp.co.jp]
Smartmetric
- (2006 May) Smartmetric shows a smart card with an embedded fingerprint sensor from ???
- (2011 Jun) Smartmetric releases the world's first fingerprint-activated portable Health Records card for consumers.
- (2014 Jan) SmartMetric to Launch World’s First Bitcoin Card With Biometric Fingerprint Protection.
Unidentified fingerprint sensor, likely only an image.
- (2015 Jul) A new version with the Upek swipe sensor.
Fidelica
- (2006 Jun) Fidelica [www.fidelica.com] shows a smart card with a Fidelica fingerprint pressure sensor.
- (2007 Feb) Announces the availability of the BCP-3 smart card development platform featuring a fully-embedded biometric system. Used by DivaCard [www.divacard.com].
- (2008 Jan) FSC-3012 Biometrically Authenticated Smart Card.
IDSmart
- (2007 Mar) ID Smart Inc. [www.id-smart.com], a Las Vegas-based biometric security system manufacturer and provider, announced today that it has successfully designed a new smart card using state-of-the-art semiconductors from Fujitsu.
ID Smart will use the Fujitsu MBF200 Fingerprint Touch Sensor providing 500 dpi AFIS compliant sensor with MB91460 series, 32-bit FR processor, high-performance RISC core that targets 100MIPS applications and beyond, in conjunction with ID Smart's own proprietary fingerprint-matching algorithm. The FR processors have an exceptional processing speed with a large internal memory capacity of 1MB (flash) and 64KB (SRAM), including 8KB of instruction cache.
Jacob Palmborg
- (2007 Jun): Designer Jacob Palmborg [www.jacobpalmborg.com] unveils the Credit Card Concept. The fingerprint sensor is a fake.
Vaultid
- (2007 Jul): Vaultid is making research about a smart card with a fingerprint sensor. The picture to the right is an artistic rendering of what the Vaultid Card could look like.
Validus
- (2008) Validus [www.validustech.com] VALIDcard pre-production card.
- (2009 Jan) Validus VALIDcard.
- (2010) Validus BC-25 (with Idex)
ASD / Morix
SIC Biometrics
- (2011): SIC annouces the Touch Prox smart card.
The Touch Prox card developed by S.I.C. Biometrics offers a new concept in biometric identification and global security.
The card is equipped with a built-in solar panel into the back of the card to recharge the internal battery. Over 1,000 uses are possible by full battery charge.
Pinkey
Jinco Japan
- (2015 Nov) NFC smart card
- (2018 Apr): Jinco anti-spoof card, with Crucialtec
- (2018): Digimore Electronics.
160x160 pixels @ 508dpi, FAR/FRR: 0.0001 / < 2%, 5 fingers x 8 images, battery: 300 times (not the Idex sensor)
- (2018 Jun) Jinco smart card / ISO
- (2018 Jun): fingerprint sensor, bluetooth, NFC, e-paper display
- (2018 Oct) silver - gold card
- (2018 Oct) a summary of all tested sensors
Embedx Biomatrix
MondoKey
- (2012): MondoKey is defining the MondoKey smart card.
Sonavation
- (2013 May): Sonavation unveils an ISO 7816 smart card.
Looking at the pictures, it seeems that an area sensor exists... and very close design from the Embedx Biomatrix card!
UINT & Mereal Biometrics
JP Sensor >> (2016) IFE
- (2014): JP Sensor unveils a smart card project, the JP2000 BioCard.
- (2015 Sep) Precise Biometrics has entered an agreement with JP Sensor for licensing of Precise Biometrics’ products for fingerprint recognition, Precise BioMatch™ Embedded and Precise BioMatch™ Mobile.
IFE Infinity Electronic Biotech
- (2016): IFE338 RFID/NFC, built-in battery (7V / 17mAh) or energy harvesting from contactless reader, CPU @ 80MIPS, 128K flash memory and 64K RAM built-in.
Zwipe & Mastercard
- (2014 Oct): Zwipe & Mastercard announce the launch of the world’s very first contactless payment card with embedded fingerprint biometrics, combining on-device biometric authentication with the convenience of a contactless credit card.
Fingerprint Cards sensor.
- (2016 Nov) green PCB.
- (2017 Jun) polyimide PCB.
CardTech
- (2014 Nov): CardTech demonstrates at cartes 2014 a smart card with an Idex fingerprint sensor. Demonstration video.
Likely a follow-up of the Pinkey card in 2011.
B-iD
- (2014 Nov): B-iD proposes a biometric smart card @ ISC West 2014.
Fingerprint sensor: FPTS22? - Linked to Jinco
Datang Microelectronics Technology (DMT)
- (2016 Jun) Datang exhibition.
Showed the 2nd generation ID card. (looks like B-iD!)
Creative Arts
- (2015): Creative Arts is developping a smart card, RFID, with a small fingeprint sensor FPTS22?
FSTechnologys
Bundesdruckerei
Idex
- (2017 Feb): A smartcard with Safran at the MWC
- (2017 Apr): Thumbs Up: Mastercard Unveils Next Generation Biometric Card. South African Trials Demonstrate Convenience and Security.
What a news! I was already doing something like that the last century... (see at the top of this page) - (2017 May): Safran Identity & Security (now OT-Morpho) reveals role in Mastercard biometric card
- (2017 Jun) IDEX launches breakthrough fingerprint sensor for contactless smart cards.
Next Biometrics
- (2017 Aug) NEXT Biometrics large fingerprint sensor chosen by First Biometrics for smart card.
No button? No battery? No LED? --> see Tactilis - (2018 Jul) Another prototype "powered by Tactilis"
- (2018 Nov) Infineon and NEXT Biometrics introduce Biometric Card Reference Design
Tactilis
- (2017 Aug) Tactilis "the power of touch".
Next Biometrics fingerprint sensor.
KSID Korean Smart ID
- (2016 Apr) KSID unveils its Bio Smart Card.
Fingerprint sensor: 160x160 pixels / 12.2x12.2 mm
- (2017 Apr) Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics has announced it is teaming up with smart card integrator Jinco Universal and Korea Smart ID (KSID), a security solution provider, to develop smart cards with an embedded fingerprint sensor.
- (2017 Jul) MagnaChip Semiconductor has been selected to manufacture ELAN Microelectronics’ fingerprint sensor IC-based smartcard. The sensor-IC based smartcard will be manufactured using MagnaChip’s 0.35 micron mixed signal thick in-mold decorating (IMD) manufacturing process technology.
Crucialtec / Kona-I
- (2016 Oct): Kona-I releases a fingerprint enabled credit card.
- (2016 Nov): Fingerprint Cards unveiled that Kona has a FPC1300 series sensor.
- (2017 Jun): energy harvest / self-powering.
Qafis / Access Verification Solutions
Lion
Fingerprint Cards
- (2017 Mar) Fingerprint Cards: Fingerprints™ premieres first own contactless card solution demonstration:
- Smartcard with contact chip
- contactless without battery
- contactless with battery
Oberthur Technologies + Safran Morpho >> 2017 >> OT-Morpho >> Idemia
- (2017 Apr): Thumbs Up: Mastercard Unveils Next Generation Biometric Card. South African Trials Demonstrate Convenience and Security.
- (2017 May): Safran Identity & Security (now OT-Morpho) reveals role in Mastercard biometric card
- (Idex sensor)
Gemalto
ManeulLab
- (2017 Nov): ManeulLab unveils a fingerprint enabled smart card (The Card). Fingerprint Cards sensor under the transparent overlay.
Feitian
- (2017 Aug) Feitian unveils a smart card with an Idex fingerprint sensor.
BTW, I just remembered Feitian was using the FingerChip in 2006.
- (2018 Oct) At Money 2020.
- (2018 Oct) Hengbao bank.
- (2019 Mar) Working with Idex and Fingerprint Cards.
HYF
- HYF Herofun or Shenzhen Herofun Bio-Tech co., : Herofun-bio / Herofun-id
- (2017 Oct): BH001
8*8 mm @508dpi, 8 bits, Pencil hardness: 6 H(@500g), RCA Abrasion Wear: 200 cycle(@175g), FRR: 2%, FAR: 1/10000 and also : Interface: USB/GPIO / Interface type: 13pin, 0.8mm pitch, ACF connector Supply voltage: 3.0-3.6 V, which is really strange for a smart card...
BH001A: build-in rechargeable battery, contact and contactless
BH001B: no battery, only contactless. (source: Lucia Lee)
Hantro Tech
China Vision Microelectronics 深圳华视微电子有限公司
SCTECHONE
- (2018 May) SCTECHONE Touch xWallet with the FPC1300-series sensor.
Unikeys
- (2018 May) Unikeys: the UKey smart hardware wallet card is ISO/IEC 7810 & 14443 compliant. (Mereal card)
Infinacom
Sisoul
- (2018 Jun) Sisoul No PW FPC Card (batteryless NFC smart card).
Toshiba
- (2018 Jun) Toshiba review
Morix FPSF105AU Area Sensor, 8 x 8mm, 160 x 160 pixels.
NXP
ExcelSecu, Hengbao
- (2019 Mar) ExcelSecu batteryless, dual interface display, Idex sensor.
- (2019 May) Hengbao dual-interface card demonstrated at the 2nd Digital China Summit (source Idex)
APS
- (2019 Jul) APS unveils the Stone M with a fingerprint sensor.
ST
- (2021) STPay-Topaz-Bio is a smart card with a 6-contact FPC1323 sensor module on 35 mm tape via Linxens.
Samsung
- (2022 Jan) Samsung Introduces Smart All-in-One Fingerprint Security IC for Biometric Payment Cards The new security IC solution combines a fingerprint sensor, Secure Element and Secure Processor in one chip, with enhanced security features enabled by Samsung’s proprietary fingerprint authentication algorithm and anti-spoofing technology. (YouTube).
Optimized for the contactless era, 512k flash, 48k rom, 18.5k ram, ISO7816, ISO14443A, 3DES/AES/RSA/ECC Samsung biometric card / S3B512C
It's a surprise that the S3B512C was a integrated one chip solution, because it is costly to use an expensive CMOS process with security features to make a large area fingerprint sensor (no info about size and resolution). See System on chip.
SES RFID
Market size
2017 May: (source: Serapeum).
2017 Oct: (source: Embedded Security News / Antonio D'Albore).
