Biometrics: smart cards with an integrated fingerprint sensor history

Here is the history of smartcard with a built-in fingerprint sensor.

Same information as the companies page, latest devices first.

Take care that I copied what they announce, and all of them are "first"...

The Rise of Biometric Cards (2018 Q4) / Antonio D'Albore & JF Mainguet for the sensor section.

2022

SES RFID

(2022) SESRFID.
(2022 Aug) SES RFID shows off biometric smart card with sensor under PVC BIOMTX smartcard.

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.

2021

ST

(2021) STPay-Topaz-Bio is a smart card with a 6-contact FPC1323 sensor module on 35 mm tape via Linxens.

2020

As a matter of facts, nothing really new is happening, there is no new fingerprint sensor integrated inside a smart card. Only old prototypes/products with different printing designs.

2019

APS

(2019 Jul) APS unveils the Stone M with a fingerprint sensor.

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)

Feitian

(2019 Mar) Working with Idex and Fingerprint Cards.

2018

Gemalto

(2018 Nov): MasterCard Set to Conduct 16 Week Trial of Biometric Bank Card in Italy.
Sensor has changed: it's now a FPC1300 series.
Intesa Sanpaolo, Mastercard and Gemalto announces pilot of dual interface Biometric Payment Card in Italy

Idex

(2018 Nov) Infineon and IDEX Biometrics join forces to advance biometric card solutions

Next Biometrics

(2018 Nov) Infineon and NEXT Biometrics introduce Biometric Card Reference Design

NXP

(2018 Sep) NXP launches low-cost fingerprint card solution.
With Precise Biometrics (2018 Jun)
& Fingerprint Cards (2017 Oct)

Toshiba

(2018 Jun) Toshiba review
Morix FPSF105AU Area Sensor, 8 x 8mm, 160 x 160 pixels.

Lion

(2018 Aug) Demo on YouTube

Next Biometrics

(2018 Jul) Another prototype "powered by Tactilis"

Sisoul

(2018 Jun) Sisoul No PW FPC Card (batteryless NFC smart card).

Infinacom

(2018 May) Infinacom Biometric Credit Card announcement.

Unikeys

(2018 May) Unikeys: the UKey smart hardware wallet card is ISO/IEC 7810 & 14443 compliant. (Mereal card)

(2018 Jun) Steffan J. on twitter publishes some statistics.

SCTECHONE

(2018 May) SCTECHONE Touch xWallet with the FPC1300-series sensor (not ISO / thickness).

2017

Hantro Tech

Hantro Tech: Hantro Tech BioNCrypt smart card /Buykorea
(2017 Nov): BH001
160x160 pixels @508dpi, 8 bits

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)

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.

Morix

(2017 Nov) Morix fingerprint CARD is using the FPSF 105 AU (IMD).

Idemia

(2017 Nov) Idemia and JCB partner to launch the first F-Code payment card in Japan.

First Biometrics

(2017 Aug) NEXT Biometrics large fingerprint sensor chosen by First Biometrics for smart card.
No button? No battery? No LED?

Smartmetric

(2017 Jul) SmartMetric Releases Video of Its Biometric Fingerprint Secured Credit Card (IMD sensor).

UINT & Mereal Biometrics / Fingerprint Cards

(2017 Jun) New Secure Biometrics Card V2 Unveiled in the World's First Open Air Casino.
(2017 Jun) Fingerprint Cards FPC1320.

Zwipe

(2017 Jun) polyimide PCB.

Kona-I / Crucialtec

(2017 Jun): energy harvest / self-powering.

Idex

(2017 Jun) IDEX launches breakthrough fingerprint sensor for contactless smart cards.

Idex

(2017 May): Gemalto EMV card. Remember that Gemalto acquired Cogent.

Idex

(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

KSID Korean Smart ID

(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.

Bundesdruckerei

(2017 Mar): CeBIT: Bundesdruckerei GoID

Fingerprint Cards

(2017 Mar) Fingerprint Cards: Fingerprints™ premieres first own contactless card solution demonstration:
- Smartcard with contact chip
- contactless without battery
- contactless with battery

Lion

(2017 Feb) Product Introduction LS-BMC™ (Lion Security Biometric Recognition Smart Card)

Oberthur Technologies

(2017 Feb) Oberthur Technologies demonstrates the F-Code card at the MWC.

Idex

(2017 Feb): A smartcard with Safran at the MWC

ASD / Morix

(2017) Morix Card NFC

Jinco Japan

(2017) Jinco smart card (Taiwan) alliance with KSID & Elan

2016

Zwipe

(2016 Nov) green PCB.

Kona-I / Crucialtec

(2016 Oct): Kona-I releases a fingerprint enabled credit card.
(2016 Nov): Fingerprint Cards unveiled that Kona has a FPC1300 series sensor.

Datang Microelectronics Technology (DMT)

(2016 Jun) Datang exhibition.
Showed the 2nd generation ID card. (looks like B-iD!)

Qafis / Access Verification Solutions

(2016 May) Qafis and Access Verification Solutions are offering a "biometric smartcard". Looks to be just an image, hard to believe the Upek sensor is still available...

Kona-I / Crucialtec

(2016 May): CrucialTec releases a smart card with Kona.
Fingerprint Cards FPC1020 sensor.
Short video showing the smart card in action.

UINT & Mereal Biometrics / Fingerprint Cards

(2016 May) UINT swipe version Short video showing the smart card in action.

KSID Korean Smart ID

(2016 Apr) KSID unveils its Bio Smart Card.
Fingerprint sensor: 160x160 pixels / 12.2x12.2 mm

Next Biometrics

(2016 Apr) NEXT Biometrics Showcases Flexible Fingerprint Sensor for Smart Cards. "We are now proud to announce that our ISO-compliance includes the recently published ISO/IEC 17839 standard, and to our knowledge this makes us the only supplier to meet this specification."

Zwipe

(2016 Feb): Zwipe announces Zwipe ID.

Idex

(2016 Feb): IDEX Unveils World’s First Flexible Touch Fingerprint Sensor for ISO Cards
(2015 Jun) IDEX Enters into a Strategic Worldwide Biometric Card Partnership with a Global Payments Company. Guess who?

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.

2015

Jinco Japan

(2015 Nov) NFC smart card

Smartmetric

(2015 Jul) A new version with the Upek swipe sensor.

Bundesdruckerei

(2015 Mar): CeBIT: Bundesdruckerei exhibits an employee ID card for tomorrow: Go ID!

FSTechnologys

(2015 Mar): FST Fstechnologys unveils the Bio Smart Card *EPNC)

Quardlock

(2015): Quardlock proposes a OTP smartcard.
"Available 2015" as said on their website. Still waiting.
(2015 Sep) Video on YouTube

Creative Arts

(2015): Creative Arts is developping a smart card, RFID, with a small fingeprint sensor FPTS22?

2014

B-iD

(2014 Nov): B-iD proposes a biometric smart card @ ISC West 2014.
Fingerprint sensor: FPTS22?

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.

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.

Smartmetric

(2014 Jan) SmartMetric to Launch World’s First Bitcoin Card With Biometric Fingerprint Protection.
Unidentified fingerprint sensor, likely only an image.

JP Sensor >> (2016) IFE

(2014): JP Sensor unveils a smart card project, the JP2000 BioCard.

2013

UINT & Mereal Biometrics / Fingerprint Cards

(2013 Sep): UINT & Mereal Biometrics announces a new smartcard with a built-in fingerprint sensor from Fingerprint Cards. (press release). (FPC press release).
(2014 Oct) Short video showing the smart card in action.

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!

2012

Embedx Biomatrix

(2012 Apr): Idex announces an order from Embedx Biomatrix for fingerprint sensors to embed in a smartcard.

MondoKey

(2012): MondoKey is defining the MondoKey smart card.

Jinco Japan

(2012): Jinco Japan unveils the Jinco smart card at Cartes Hong-Kong '12.

2011

Pinkey

(2011 Nov): Pinkey unveils the Pinkey Smart smart card.
Embeds an Idex capacitive sensor.
See also Card Tech. Also Sonavation partner.

Smartmetric

(2011 Jun) Smartmetric releases the world's first fingerprint-activated portable Health Records card for consumers.

SmartDATATEL

(2011): SmartDATATEL is developing with Smartmetric a smart card, with a swipe fingeprint sensor.

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.

2010

Validus

(2010) Validus BC-25 (with Idex)

ASD / Morix

(2010): ASD unveils the Auth.On Card smart card. Embeds their FPTS-22 fingerprint capacitive sensor.
Also announced by AVANT Biometrics [www.avantbiometrics.com].

ASD / Morix

Seen at Morix

2009

Validus

(2009 Jan) Validus VALIDcard.

Validus_swipeAnimation.swf

Cardlab

(2009) production of CardLab first biometric card (FPC1080A).

E-Smart technologies

(2009) Note that the sensor is rotated. Source : We change the world, with much more photos.

2008

E-Smart technologies

(2008 Oct) The contactless "I AM" card is demonstrated at Cartes 2008. Unclear sensor, likely Fujitsu, but seems to be also a version with the pressure sensor from BMF as announced in the Nikkei Electronic Magazine.
Super Smart Card manufacturing video

E-Smart technologies

(2008 Jan) e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., announces Next Generation Superthin Polyimide Flexible Circuit Biometric Super Smart Card™ card, the “i am”™ Card.

Validus

(2008) Validus [www.validustech.com] VALIDcard pre-production card.

2007

IDSmart / Fujitsu

(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.

Fidelica

(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].

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.

2006

Cardlab

(2006) first and second biometric card proof of concept (no image / likely the one from ScanEcotech)

Smartmetric

(2006 May) Smartmetric shows a smart card with an embedded fingerprint sensor from ???

Fidelica

(2006 Jun) Fidelica [www.fidelica.com] shows a smart card with a Fidelica fingerprint pressure sensor.

2005

NovaCard, FingerCard / Upek

(2005) Novacard with a Upek swipe sensor (Louis Molholm / Card Factory)

Scanecotech / Fingerprint Cards

(2005 Apr) Scandinavian Ecotechnologies [www.scanecotech.com] presents a biometric card with an embedded swipe sensor likely from Fingerprint Cards.

E-Smart technologies

(2005 Mar) still at project state, no real device available?

2004

Giesecke & Devrient / Fingerprint Cards

(2004?) MoSTAR Biocard with an embedded swipe sensor from Fingerprint Cards.

NovaCard, FingerCard

Likely to be the same project:

(2004) Zorg HSB smart card

(2004) Fasme (Facilitating Administrative Services for Mobile Europeans)

Quard Card / Upek

(2004) Quard (www.quard.dk) shows the QuardCard. Upek sensor, then likely Fingerprint Cards.
Brochure

E-Smart technologies

(2004) BioSensor [www.biosensorhawaii.com] Fingerprint sensor FPS

2003

E-Smart technologies

(2003) Super Smart Card [www.e-smarttechnologies.com]

2002

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