Rooms and Facilities

Smart Card Centre Laboratories

The Smart Card Centre Laboratories provide a practical learning and testing environment for mobile and smart token related research projects undertaken as part of Ph.D. and M.Sc. academic courses, offered by The Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Showcase Laboratory

The Showcase Laboratory houses a mobile and smart token related software tools and equipment, which have been generously provided by the SCC founders, partners and supporters. The laboratory also contains several previous student projects and demonstrators that illustrate the different applications, and security aspects, of mobile and smart token technology to visitors from both industry and academia. Research students have access Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for developing mobile and smart token applications, and the tools for testing these applications. The lab also has a collection of smart cards, smart card readers and mobile devices. For hardware security projects the lab has a physical probe station and equipment for performing side-channel analysis.

RFID Laboratory

The RFID Laboratory was opened in March 2008, part funded by Royal Holloway's DGG program, and dedicated to practical, hardware projects related to Radio Frequency IDentification. The laboratory has dedicated workspaces for the development of hardware prototypes, and also contains test and measurement equipment for generating and receiving radio signals in the HF and UHF bands. Embedded development tools and kits for microcontroller and FPGA devices, and the Centre's own contactless test-bed are available for research projects. The laboratory has a collection of RFID and contactless tokens, readers and NFC devices along with a basic supply of configurable logic devices, discrete and analogue components.

Queen's Annex

Queens Annex is the largest of the three laboratories and is equipped with multiple workstations. This lab is the main working area for Ph.D and M.Sc students, providing them with a dedicated space to work and develop their ideas.

Available Tools

It would be impossible to list in detail every piece of equipment the Smart Card Centre has at its disposal but below are some examples of tools that have been used in the Centre's projects. Note that SCC students can also buy their own smart cards and readers direct from Smartcard Focus.

• G&D Personal Chipcard Terminal - PCT200 readers
• Infineon Fingerprint Readers - TIP Evaluation Kit 2
• Gemplus GemPC 410 readers
• Variety of Smart Card Readers/Writers and Scanners

CHIP Card Terminal Barnes International	DPA Equipment SiVenture Gemplus	DPA Equipment SiVenture Gemplus	Dream Box DM7000-S
Dream Box	Finger Print Reader Infineon	STARSIM G&D	STARSIM G&D
			Mifare Pegoda Philips
		Microscope	Digimess: Power supply TTi: Wave form generator

Book List

1. Smart Cards, Tokens, Security and Applications
   Keith Mayes, Kostas Markantonakis 2008
2. Smart Card Handbook (Third Edition)
    Wolfgang Rankl, Wolfgang Effing   2003
3. Java Card technology for Smart Cards :architecture and programmer's guide
   Chen, Zhiqun 2000
4. Smart card manufacturing : a practical guide
   Haghiri, Yahya. 2002
5. Smart card application development using Java
   Hansmann, Uwe. 2002
6. Java card for e-payment applications
   Hassler, Vesna. 2002
7. Implementing electronic card payment systems
   Radu, Cristian. 2003
8. Smart card security and applications
   Hendry, Mike 2001
9. Smart cards : a guide to building and managing smart card applications
   Dreifus, Henry 1998
10. Smart card research and applications : Third International Conference, CARDIS '98, Louv
    CARDIS '98 (Conference :1998 :Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) 2000
11. Smart card programming and security : International Conference on Research in Smart Cards
    E-smart 2001(Conference :2001 :Cannes, France) 2001
12. Java on smart cards : programming and security : first international workshop, JavaCard 2000
    JavaCard 2000(2000 :Cannes, France) 2001