Applications

Overview

A wide array of potential applications opens many addressable markets to the StorCard.  StorCard can provide substantial value-added benefits to a variety of consumer electronic devices as well as new and emerging markets.  Industry projections for the growing installed base and new shipments for Consumer products is large and growing.

In addition to the Consumer Products market opportunity, StorCard will enable new applications in other large markets:

  • Enterprise: An increase of the U.S. mobile workforce to 106M in 2006. StorCard can deliver portable, secure data and access to the enterprises around the world.
  • Government: Significant opportunities exist in the secure border crossing applications (600 million border crossings/year in U.S. alone), common driver license cards (200M cards in U.S.) and government ID cards (30M government Smart Cards in U.S.) in both the U.S. and other countries around the world.
  • Financial Services: Over 8 Billion credit cards and smart cards will be deployed in 2005. By breaking current restrictions on storage capacity, StorCard will enable new applications, increase customer loyalty, improve personal identity protection and help reduce the cost of fraud.
  • Healthcare: StorCard enables a complete patient medical record in a secure portable format. X-rays, medical and dental records, and a complete history of prescriptions can be stored on a single card, lowering health-care costs and increasing the overall quality of delivered healthcare.