Editing Smart card (section)

=== Carte bleue ===
After the Télécarte, microchips were integrated into all French ''[[Carte Bleue]]'' [[debit card]]s in 1992. Customers inserted the card into the merchant's [[point-of-sale]] (POS) terminal, then typed the [[personal identification number]] (PIN), before the transaction was accepted. Only very limited transactions (such as paying small [[Electronic toll collection|highway tolls]]) are processed without a PIN.

Smart-card-based "[[Stored value card|electronic purse]]" systems store funds on the card, so that readers do not need network connectivity. They entered European service in the mid-1990s. They have been common in Germany ([[Geldkarte]]), Austria ([[Quick Wertkarte]]), [[Belgium]] ([[Proton (bank card)|Proton]]), France ([[Moneo]]<ref>[http://www.moneo.net Moneo's website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208224418/http://www.moneo.net/ |date=8 February 2010 }} (in French).</ref>), the Netherlands ([[Chipknip]] Chipper (decommissioned in 2015)), Switzerland ("Cash"), Norway ("[[Mondex]]"), Spain ("Monedero 4B"), Sweden ("Cash", decommissioned in 2004), Finland ("Avant"), UK ("Mondex"), Denmark ("Danmønt") and Portugal ("Porta-moedas Multibanco").
Private electronic purse systems have also been deployed such as the Marines corps (USMC) at Parris Island allowing small amount payments at the cafeteria.

Since the 1990s, smart cards have been the [[subscriber identity module]]s (SIMs) used in [[GSM]] mobile-phone equipment. Mobile phones are widely used across the world, so smart cards have become very common.