smart card

There are three types - key meters, smart card meters and smart prepayment meters.

You need a smart card with your data on it to get your subsidised bread or allocation of fuel or gas - a text tells you when it's time to join the queue.

Shipments from China to Russia of smart cards, light-emitting diodes, polysilicon, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other goods have also risen, the firm said.

A law enacted last year provides for electronic voting machines and smart card readers to confirm voters are registered in a central database.

To pay for charges, I downloaded the Electric Circuit app, and tried to order a smart card that allows charging where there is no cellphone coverage.