SmartMX BMW Intelligent Key and Credit Card
If you lose the keys to the car is already a problem, imagine if this is combined with a credit card. It is not a joke, it is proposed that BMW with its prototype smart key, which uses a SmartMX chip.
Thanks to this chip allows not only the key to open the car, but also make payments as a contactless card is compatible with the EMV (Europay, Visa and Mastecard), allowing you to, in future, be used as a credit card.
For the time being is designed for the conduct of retail payments, for example tickets on public transport, but the goal is to serve also to pay for parking, tolls or gasoline. In addition, our preferences will keep the vehicle.
In this way we will have saved the seating position, the preferred temperature, broadcast radio, … adjustments that can be used in different vehicles, for example, if a rent or give us a replacement. Being a smart card could be programmed also to work with them.
And although the first sentence of the article was half in jest, not without its serious side, as if they are eventually implemented these systems must be much more careful about security and not lose them.
Posted on October 22, 2008 under Gadgets |
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