Smart Companies

Aplab Ltd

Aplab House,

A-5, Wagle Industrial Estate,

Thane - 400 604

Tel. : 022-582 1861/2/3,

582 0319, 582 1019

Fax : 022-582 3137, 582 4456, 583 1128

Web site: www.aplab.com

Aplab is a vendor of Point-of-Sale terminals, PIN pads and smart cardtransaction terminals.

Ascom India Pvt Ltd

34, Udyog Vihar,

Phase IV, Gurgaon,

Haryana

Tel.: 0124-634 2083

Fax: 634 9114

Web site: www.ascom.com

Ascom is one the leading vendors of smart card-based pay terminals and smartcard readers and terminals. Electronic payment solutions from Ascom are based onboth magnetic stripe and smart card technology. Ascom India was one of theproject partners in the RBI-sponsored project "SMARS".

Baehal Software Ltd

Airport Lane,

HAL Estate,

Bangalore - 560 017

Web site: www.baehal.com

The company specializes in developing Java-enabled smart cards for health,personnel-management, and airline applications. It has developed a MedicalEvaluation System (MES) that can store patient records and chemist bills. It isalso developing smart cards that will enable airline passengers to view detailsof benefits earned from frequent-flyer programmes, airlines to automateticketing, companies to automate the recording of attendance by employees andmonitor employee activities and to control and track the access of employees tofacilities.

CMS Computers Ltd

201, Arcadia Nariman Point,

Mumbai - 400 021

Tel.: 022-285 1580, 204 2734

Web site: www.cms.co.in

CMS represents Datacard, a leading plastic card (magnetically encoded,proximity, smart) solutions in India. It offers smart card solutions likepatient registration system, loyalty programmes, telecom, club solution andelectronic purse.

Compaq India Ltd

92, Industrial Suburb,

II Stage, Yashwanthpur

Bangalore - 560 022

Tel.: 080-337 4785

Fax: 080-337 4601

Web site: www.compaq.co.in

Compaq offers a range of PC and network-based smart card solutions providingsecurity far beyond that of a simple password. Compaq Smart Card Solutions usedigital signatures to ensure authenticity and encryption, and, for the highestdegree of protection, the Enhanced Smart Card Keyboard and Reader addcrypto-graphic technology to the features of the standard models.

Datanet Corp. Ltd

No.4 Morzaria Industrial Estate,

Bannerghatta Road,

Bangalore - 560 029

Tel.: 080-553 8011, 552 1837, 552 1839

Fax: 080-553 8010

Web site: www.datanetcorpltd.com

Datanet’s offers smart card-based Any Branch Banking solution called SmartABB. Datanet claims to have developed good expertise in building smartcard-based solution for banking and in building PKI-based security software.

e-SmartNET

Zicom House,

45, Chimbai Road,

Behind St. Andrews Church, Off Hill Road,

Bandra (West),

Mumbai - 400 050

Tel.: 022-645 2784 / 85, 645 4841, 615 5571 / 72

Fax: 022-645 4842

Web site: www.zicomsecure.com

e-SmartNET is the new smart card and embedded software division of ZicomElectronic Security Systems Ltd and is working on innovative new smart cardapplications. The company is working with both contact (ISO-7816) andcontact-less (ISO-14443 Mifare) smart cards. It has delivered door accesscontrol systems using swipe and RFID proximity cards for a while now. It is nowplanning to deliver smart card-based door access control systems. The cards willalso be used in library management, cafeteria management and other corporateworkplace applications. It is also working on contact applications that work onthe PC/SC standard. These include smart card-operated vending, photocopying andwashing machines.

Equifax Venture Infotek Ltd

EVI Technology Park,

B-52, Veera Industrial Estate, New Link Road,

Andheri (West)

Mumbai - 400 053

Tel.: 022-632 4837, 636 5795

Fax: 022-630 1483/ 639 1483

Equifax Venture Infotek (EVI) provides end-to-end solutions for setting up smartcard-based payment systems. It has a strategic tie-up with various banks and iscurrently in the process of investing in payment terminal infrastructure, thenetwork and back-end data processing centre. The company proposes to targetbanks in order to provide their smart card service. It recently launched the"SmartCity" project in Pune. The project is a retailer to consumerlevel project involving the banking industry for deployment of smart cards.

Exim Soft Ltd

63-B, 13th cross, JP Nagar, Phase-III,

Bangalore - 560 078

Tel.: 080-658 0466/658 3522

Fax: 080-658 0973

Web site: www.eximsoft.com

EximSoft claims to have expertise in developing smart card applications in thefollowing areas in credit and debit payment applications, time and attendance,loyalty programmes, Point of Sale applications (POS), smart card-based standarde-cash applications, such as Mondex, VisaCash, smart card-based proprietarye-cash schemes and other applications like

ID cards, healthcare, electronic ticketing and smart vending, etc.

Gemplus India Pvt Ltd

27, 80 Feet Road, HAL III Stage, Indira Nagar

Bangalore - 560 075

Tel.: 080-528 8247, 528 8257

Fax: 5288 259

Web site: www.gemplus.com

Gemplus is the world’s leading provider of plastic and smart card-basedsolutions. The company sells magnetic stripe cards, memory andmicroprocessor-based smart cards, smart contact-less cards, electronic tags andsmart objects. It also designs and markets software, development tools andreaders. The company also provides consulting, training and personalizationservices to deliver comprehensive and flexible card-based solutions to itsdevelopers, distributors, partners, and customers.

Schlumberger Measurement & Systems Ltd

4th Floor, Mohan Dev Building,

13, Tolstoy Marg,

New Delhi - 110 001

Tel.: 011-335 5382, 335 0213

Fax: 371 2773

Web site: www.slb.com

Schlumberger is one of the leading providers of smart card-based solutionworldwide. Its offer includes the Cyberflex Simera card, the industry’s firstJava-based smart card. The company also offers a range of smart card-basedparking terminals, ticketing machines, pay terminals, banking terminals,software, applications and systems integration. It recently introduced SimeraAirflex, world’s first global roaming smart card for CDMA mobile telephoneusers.

Shonkh Technologies Ltd

178/5, 8 "F" Main Road,

3rd Block, Jayanagar,

Bangalore - 560 011

Tel.: 080-654 1470/71/72

Fax: 080-654 1466

Web site: www.shonkh.com

This company has pioneered laser cards, which offer various advantages overother card storage technologies. The optical memory card is supposed to be themost advanced card technology with 4.1 MB of memory capacity. It uses the WriteOnce Read Many technology optical recording technology. This allows data to beadded or updated, but never deleted or erased.

Smart Chip Ltd

A-298, New Friends Colony

New Delhi - 110 065

Tel.: 011-692 5812/13/14/15

Fax: 011-692 5402

Web site: www.smartchipltd.com

Smart Chip Ltd, one of the country’s largest vendors of smart card solutions,offers a range of services that include sourcing smart cards and terminals,software customization, back-end software integration, system installation,maintenance and support, and electronic and physical personalization of cards.The company has a strategic tie-up with Orga Kartensysteme GmbH of Germany, oneof the leading smart card integrators of the world.

TVS Cherry Ltd

205, Madhava Building,

Bandra-Kurla Complex,

Bandra (East),

Mumbai - 400 051

Tel.: 022-654 2732 / 654 2771

Fax: 022-654 2424

Web site: www.cherrycorp.com

TVS Cherry offers "advanced performance" keyboards which incorporatevarious identification devices like magnetic card reader, barcode reader, smartcard reader, fingerprint sensor. Besides, the company also offers a data entrydevice suited for all applications in which data needs to be read off/written onsmart cards. Equipped with smart card interface, the TVS Cherry keyboard is alsoideal for other applications e.g. in access control systems, at POS terminalsfor capture of customer and member data, home banking, smart card-based Internettransactions, logging on to networks, etc.

VeriFone India Ltd

VeriFone Technology Park,

Wind Tunnel Road, Murugeshalya,

Bangalore - 560 017

Tel.: 080-529 8151/2/3/4

Fax: 080-529 9876

Web site: www.verifone.com

VeriFone, a division of Hewlett-Packard Company, is the leading global providerof secure electronic-payment solutions for financial institutions, merchants andconsumers. VeriFone is supporting smart card projects through its partners–WorldWide Smartnet Ltd. It is working with EVI group of companies for implementationof SMARS. VeriFone has provided the basic software and hardware, which is beingcustomised by WWSL.

Ravi Shekhar Pandey