The 2010 Edition innovations announce many

The smart card is one of the few areas of the high-tech where the France can boast of a position of world leader. That said the 25eédition of the fair world maps and identification at Villepinte, in the Paris region, bringing together all the actors of the digital security - card of semiconductors, terminal manufacturers, operators until weekend... This year, the market has the wind in its sails. Smart card sales expected to grow by 10. In 2010, nearly 5 billion microprocessor cards should elapse in the world, to equip phones SIM cards, bank cards, identity documents or maps Vitale. Good news for the hexagonal industry: the smart card employs 10,000 employees in France, and 3 world leader in the sector are French: Gemalto, Oberthur and Morpho.

"Machine to Machine", embedded in the skin, smart cards biometrics... The 2010 Edition innovations announce many. But the lighthouse technology should undoubtedly be the contactless payment, via the NFC (Near Field Communication) standard, which allows to pay remotely from his phone or his bank card, but also to read smart tags or share digital content.

Announced as a revolution for years, this technology not yet never truly departed. Today, the players in the sector want to believe that the time has come. In fact, several recent announcements gave a new topical to the subject. First at the level of the constructors. Nokia has announced that by 2011, all its "smartphones" will be equipped chip NFC, without however giving details on the capabilities of these chips. Similarly, RIM has confirmed that he would also propose this technology on its BlackBerry, while Apple would have hired 3 experts in the NFC, including French Benjamin Viger, and could, according to rumors, incorporate the NFC in its next iPhone 5. "Other industrial we have between 40 and 50 million chips to 2011 with manufacturers." "This proves that things accelerated," j. Rémy de Tonnac, Chairman of the Board of Inside Contactless, which produces NFC chips on behalf of manufacturers.

Google makes

Other actors also are: Google announced in early November that Gingerbread, the next version of its Android operating system, will bear the NFC. And in the US, AT & T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon come from ally in a joint venture to develop an electronic via NFC mobile payment service. Named Isis, this system will be gradually deployed in the country in the 1dix - eight months and aims to set up a network of merchants, banks and other providers accepting NFC payment.

Rest, reste, si notamment d' établir sur du concret et si initiatives établir if such to establish concrete and if si initiatives establish si notamment d' établir sur du concret et si initiatives établir lead modèle économique viable sustainable economic model. Between investments to service providers for the establishment of networks of "NFC compatible" and trade with Bank operators and telecoms revenue sharing, the path is still long. In France especially since so far only full-scale experience could be carried out in Nice, last June. The first balance sheet is rather positive: 2.500 Nice have already purchased a phone Citizy, dedicated to the non-contact, and this figure is expected to reach 3,300 of here at the end of year. What decide fifteen cities to try to turn the experience.