Cybermark - Tallahassee, FL 
CyberMark - SmartLauncher &
SmartServer Project
CyberMark is a world leader
of education point-of-sale smart
card transactional systems for 35 + Colleges &
Universities across the US. They produce complete smart card
student identification card systems including financial
smart card transactional applications as well as on-card
student classification systems.
As part of their initiative to further
leverage their 1 million card holder base, Cybermark
launched a program to develop a completely automated,
student-based smart card Internet based application. The requirements
included a need for communications (client/server) software to manage crediting and debiting
smart cards over the Internet from the users PC while also
performing all secured transactions to the card via an
attached PCSC compliant smart card reader.
To
perform this task, CyberMark enlisted support from EITALL's
president Paul Paradise. Paul developed the technology
and presented a project plan documentation
explaining the workflow automation solution that would meet
their requirements.
After a presentation of the plan and it's
acceptance, EITALL began development of a system which
included the following components:
