“We have heard a lot about smart cards for the last five or six years,” says Vincent Deiuliis, marketing manager, Keri Systems, San Jose, Calif. “A number of people thought it would be the next technology within a year. But as a volume manufacturer, it is still proximity for us now and going forward.
“It’s a pretty steady business of proximity for us. It’s a commodity sale. It always works. That is our bread and butter.”