Italian firm Card Tech’s fingerprint smart card ready for mass production

Italian biometric technology firm Card Tech announced that its new biometric smart card, which features IDEX’s fingerprint swipe sensor, is ready for mass production. Card Tech said its R&D team spent years on the industrial engineering phase of the Smart Card project, which was partially funded by a 4 million euro investment. The patented ISO-compliant system-on-card solution uses IDEX’s flexible swipe sensor, based on its patented two-part SmartFinger technology which can be easily integrated into cards.