How to Use smart card in a Sentence

smart card

noun
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  • The smart card is issued in person and has a picture of the holder on it.
    — Time, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In addition to smart cards the state is working on other smartphone apps for the rail system.
    — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 6 June 2018
  • The smart card usually has to be installed in the office desktop and doesn’t function well with the internet speeds available in most homes.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Phones, online marketplaces, smart cards, streaming video and much more all depend on them.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • While commuters could pay for the parking spaces with cash or smart cards, the city lost money while data issue was sorted out.
    — Erin Hegarty, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For starters, everyone has a rechargeable smart card, called the Octopus card, that is widely used across the city to pay for everything from transport to meals and groceries.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 13 June 2019
  • Avetisov compares the technology to the public key encryption used in smart cards, except without the card.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Right now the smart card works on every mode of travel except the Regional Rail, and an early adopters program is planned to begin for commuter rail in December.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The exchange will start testing the new authentication system in the first quarter and expects to decommission the smart card method in the second quarter.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Voters were then sent to a ballot-marking device with a smart card indicating which ballot the voter should receive.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 June 2020
  • Latch’s hardware and software system allows entry using methods such as a passcode, smartphone or a smart card.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 16 July 2017
  • The ongoing problem has made the pay-by-phone parking app and credit card payments at the daily fee parking machines unavailable for six days now, though commuters can pay with cash or smart cards.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The platform still uses a physical smart card to authenticate logins from brokers and clearing banks, something that made trading more difficult—even for large firms—during the worst of the pandemic.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Shipments from China to Russia of smart cards, light-emitting diodes, polysilicon, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other goods have also risen, the firm said.
    — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Milwaukee Public Transit officials asked people to stay off city buses unless travel is essential, and encouraged passengers to avoid putting money into cash boxes and instead use smart cards or an app.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Roberta Altstadt, TriMet's media relations and communications manager, said the virtual Hop card will be permanent after the agency fully transitions to the smart cards.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The company that created the technology for the validators, as well as the technology on the mobile app and smart card, is Umo, which provides transportation services to 70 different municipalities across the Americas.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The German chipmaker Infineon, for example, is interested in using the power of quantum to develop encryption algorithms for its security and smart card business that no super-computer cannot crack.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 June 2021
  • As Emiko Jozuka recently reported for Motherboard, futuristic memorials are gaining popularity with the help of smart cards, conveyor belts and artistically lit Buddhas.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017

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