Smartrac & Cartamundi

SMARTRAC is the leading RFID technology company in the production of both ready-made and customized products and services. SMARTRAC makes products smart, and enables businesses to identify, authenticate, track and complement product offerings. The company’s portfolio is used in a wide array of applications: access control, animal identification, automated fare collection, automotive, border control, contactless payment, electronic product identification, industry, libraries and media management, laundry, logistics, retail, public transport, and many more. Leveraging its global R&D, production and sales network, SMARTRAC’s solutions combine physical products with digitally based services to empower the ecosystem of connected things. SMARTRAC has its registered headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.smartrac-group.com and follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SMARTRAC_NV

Cartamundi has been producing cards for over 250 years and never stopped innovating. We have a plethora of special techniques to enrich our partners’ cards. We offer various special printing techniques on different substrates, but have also developed a range of interactive iCards. These are cards that interact in different ways with smartphones, tablets and other digital devices.  We are part of the PING ecosystem with some European partners to bring RFID/NFC cards to the market. These are regular cards, look and feel like regular cards, but they have a microchip and an antenna embedded in the card. This allows the cards to communicate with an NFC reader available in tablets or smartphones and any other hardware devices. By 2016 there will be 1.8 Billions of NFC handsets worldwide. As you can imagine, this opens a lot of opportunities to integrate digital into card and board games. For more information, visit http://www.cartamundi.com/en/PlayingCardsPrint  and http://www.cartamundi-digital.com/and follow us on Twitter:@Cartamundicards