What Are Contactless Cards and Contactless Smart Card Readers?

First, smart cards have microchips with memories in each of them. The memory can easily be altered to change the purpose or use of the card. Contactless smart cards—one type of smart card—need only come into a close proximity of the contactless smart card readers to read the information contained on the smart cards.

Contactless smart cards and contactless smart card readers are used in a variety of applications. They can be loaded with money and be used as a payment system in toll booths, thus speeding up the process of stopping to pay a toll.

Typically, contactless smart cards do not have to be taken out of the wallet of the person in the vehicle in order to be read by the contactless smart card readers at the toll booth. If the card comes within a certain distance of the reader’s beam, it reads and charges the car for the toll.

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