Two chips on a card is nothing new, but three plus an optical stripe?
Sometimes the best way to improve on an idea is to incorporate the tried and true.
That’s what Mountain View, Calif.-based LaserCard Corp. discovered with some of its deployments, combining its optical storage and security technology with a traditional smart card.
Throughout the 1990s LaserCard relied mainly on its optical storage and security feature, an area of optical media embedded into an ID card form factor. Similar to optical storage on a CD or DVD, a LaserCard ID can store large amounts of data, biometric information and high-resolution images. Most notably, the innovation has powered the U.S. permanent resident card, better known as the Green Card, since 1997.
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