Contact platforms
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 7816-1/2/3/4
- Java Card
- JCOP (Java Card Open Platform)
- Multi-application
- Yes — supported across JCOP
- Encoding
- In-house, ISO/IEC 7816-4 compliant
Product · Smart cards Smart cards.
Smart cards.
JCOP, MIFARE, DESFire — encoded in-house.
Contact, contactless and dual-interface bodies built on the platforms customers actually deploy: JCOP from 2009, the full MIFARE Classic / Plus / DESFire EV-series catalogue, NTAG family for NFC, ISO/IEC 14443A and 7816-4 compliant assemblies. Encoding bureau in-house.
Contactless platforms
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 14443A · ISO/IEC 7816-4
- Frequency
- 13.56 MHz HF
- Chips
- MIFARE Classic 1k/4k · MIFARE Plus · DESFire EV1/EV2/EV3
- Memory
- DESFire 2k / 4k / 8k
Dual interface
- Form factor
- Standard CR80 body
- Antenna
- Custom antenna design in-house
- Security
- AES-128 secure messaging
- Use cases
- Transit, e-government, multi-app banking
Personalisation & QC
- Encoding
- Magstripe + chip in-house
- Variable data
- Names · serials · cryptographic keys
- Inspection
- 100% per card · all stages
- Optional audit
- SGS arranged from Shenzhen
JCOP from day one. The platform that runs underneath transit, telco and e-gov.
Cardzgroup added JCOP — the Java Card Open Platform — to its product line in January 2009, the same month a million-unit South African PVC loyalty win was announced. Two months later, the line picked up NXP MIFARE DESFire EV1 in 2k / 4k / 8k variants, ISO/IEC 14443A and 7816-4 compliant.
That sequence — JCOP for multi-app contact, DESFire for high-end contactless — has been the spine of the smart card line ever since. We add new generations as they ship: DESFire EV2, then EV3; MIFARE Plus; the latest NTAG variants for high-volume NFC.
The fundamental capability has not changed: bilingual project management, in-house encoding bureau, full inspection on every card, ISO-accredited partner factories. What has changed is the chip catalogue underneath.
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