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The
Deseret News,
in its July 8, 1996 edition, reported
that IC One (the company expected to manufacture the
Smart Card for use in Utah) is planning to test a version
of smart card in Fruit Heights. Residents will be able to
"credit money to the card and use it instead of cash
for purchases at various Kaysville stores."
In
addition to this use of credit, the smart card will be
able to "handle up to 50
different applications, each kept secure and private from
the others. It has the potential to consolidate all those
cards in your wallet - driver's license, library,
department store, medical, etc. - into one single
card."
The Deseret News article
also reported that in February, 1996, IC One held a
small-scale test of the smart card when it gave out 300
cards to "legislators, state government
workers and members of the Smart Card Forum, which held
its annual meeting in Utah this winter. The card was
valid in the Capitol cafeteria and at a handful of local
stores."
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