Smart card for smart campus: KFUPM case study

Smart card is the latest addition in the world of information technology. The vision of the smart card program is to provide access to services that is secure, fast, friendly, easy to use, flexible, personal, and is accessible by the users from any place at any time. A smart card is of the size of a conventional credit card with an embedded computer chip that stores and transacts data between users and devices. This data is associated with either value or information or both and is stored and processed within the chip of the card. The card data is transacted via a card reader attached to a computing system as a peripheral device. Smart cards are extensively used through several key applications like education, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and transportation.