SmartMetric in Last Stage of Manufacture of Its Latest Biometric Fingerprint Credit Card Product

SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME): Having been confronted with delays and obstacles in component delivery along with physical issues with supply chain and component manufacturing, SmartMetric is pleased to advise that it is now nearing the completion of the manufacturing of its latest version of its biometric credit card with the advanced nano fingerprint reader built inside the card.

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The main advanced features of the SmartMetric biometric card are:

1. Internal rechargeable hybrid solid state battery that allows the card to be used for fingerprint recognition prior to the card being inserted into a reader. This state-of-the-art battery has been tailor made to the specifications of SmartMetric. It is non-volatile and can withstand being cut or punctured. The physical size is less than half of the prior battery that was being used by SmartMetric. Having a power source inside the card allows the card to be used for a fingerprint scan at such places as ATMs that “swallow” the card and at restaurants where the attendant takes the card from the table to process at the counter.
   
   
2. Hardware solution that identifies a live fingerprint and differentiates between a real fingerprint as apposed to a fake fingerprint made of, say, silicon. This feature is unique to the SmartMetric biometric card and provides for a solid and robust live fingerprint detection. Others have said they can achieve live fingerprint detection through software. Our testing in R&D in our engineering center in Tel Aviv, Israel has shown us that software-based live detection does not work. SmartMetric has spent a great deal of time and effort in designing and developing its live fingerprint hardware-based detection system.
   
   
3. Refined our circuit board used to mount our electronic components to achieve greater thinness and smaller size. Having an electronics circuit board with mounted electronic components that fits inside a credit card ISO thickness has always been a challenge. It has taken SmartMetric years of R&D to perfect is miniaturization to less than 1/3 the thickness of a credit card. This is an incredible achievement in the field of electronics. Especially when you consider the SmartMetric circuit board has an ARM Cortex processor, flash memory and a complex power management system. It is akin to having a smartphone ciruit board one third the thickness of a credit card. This achievement in miniaturization has been achieved by SmartMetric engineers.