The Queensland Government has signed a contract with Australian card manufacturing company Placard to provide millions of smartcard-based drivers' licences to the state.
Queensland Transport (QT) has selected three core technology suppliers for the state's chip-embedded drivers' licences, which will use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt drivers' biometric information.
Queensland Transport (QT) has gone to market for up to 10,000 handheld smart card readers as it gears up to replace its 2.7 million antiquated drivers' licences with new smart card equivalents.
Queensland's public transport agency TransLink has kicked off the pilot phase of its smartcard system encompassing its network of trains, buses and ferries.
RFID-tracked cars could be on the horizon, as Austroads, the association of Australian and New Zealand road transport and traffic authorities, investigates how best to deploy the technology.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
What's holding back smart cards from widespread use in Australia? Could it be that vendors haven't found the applications consumers really want?
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