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8.1.9. Smart Card Operating System [Noida]

Smartcard offers a secure and convenient platform for carrying digital information and
credentials for identification and authentication of an individual. It also facilitates the
storage of physical credentials like fingerprint, etc. on the same card.

The card can be used for multitude of applications like e-commerce, access control,
attendance, digitally signing documents, encryption of confidential information, storage
of user specific information e.g., medical records, canteen bills, library usage, financial
transactions , etc.

Two products - SCOSTA CL and SCOSTA PKI (having enhanced security features and
superset of SCOSTA-CL) are ready to cater Contact and Contactless based Smart Card
market.

8.1.10. NCMC: National Common Mobility Card [Noida]

CDAC is actively participating to make the common specification for National Common
Mobility Card (NCMC) which involves a generic architecture to converge to a single card
based open loop solution for almost all kind of conventional financial transaction.

Considering transit application as the primary objective, the subsequent development
of indigenous validation terminal and metro gate has been initiated with a bigger road
map towards PoS terminal following the NCMC specification.

The NCMC specification is expected to have a common front-end framework to accept
all common kind of cards primarily following ISO7816 and ISO1443 contact less
specification which will have a clear direction to accept Indian card OS standard like
qSparc and SCOSTA.

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