There will be electronic passport

Security printer Bundesdruckerei (Germany) and screen maker Samsung SDI have just released a smart passport. The OLED screen of this passport provides more reliable data.

Electronic passport will have plastic OLED screen and save personal identification video data.(Photo: securityworldmag.com)

Based on the long-term techniques of security printers used for personal papers such as ID cards, passports . combined with electronic paper technology solutions developed by Samsung, the result of Collaboration is an electronic passport with a color screen that displays identification information by each page that appears in turn.

Electronic passport cards are quite thin in size, so they are made of special materials that are less affected by the forces of impact during use. In addition, this card is also equipped with heat-absorbing parts to protect the internal electronic components to operate stably.

This application may display on passport a larger amount of information, including video images of the grantee.

Information about when to release the version of this electronic passport is still kept private, but technically the smart passport can be put into application in a recent day.

Location of chip on electronic passport.(Photo: ittefaq.com)

In late 2005, Germany was the first European Union (EU) country to introduce electronic projection. The first version has the same shape as the current passport, but has a thin electronic chip on the back cover, including data such as name, date of birth, passport number . Chip in the passport is a radio frequency identification chip, which stores a digital photo of the passport holder, and can also contain the fingerprint of this person.

When passengers present their passports for checking at the airport, a special device will scan their faces while the customs will pass the passport through another testing device to compare the matching of the information.

According to experts, the use of electronic passports will increase to the highest level of safety due to hard to counterfeit or repair information in it, but opponents argue that hackers can take advantage of, copy the Personal information is scanned on the device.

In response to this concern, an expert said that each electronic passport contains elements of security, such as on the front and back of the passport with metal materials to prevent the possibility ' "read stealing" information on the chip. In addition, to "read" the chip on this passport also needs a special code, and in the reading device has a program to quickly detect the copying of information.

All other countries in the EU and many countries such as Japan, Australia, Russia and Switzerland are also preparing to put similar passports into circulation.