*The video highlights the future potential of smart cards, and does not necessarily reflect current JCB smart card capability.

DualPlus is JCB's dual interface smart card. This is a multifunction card with a single chip and two interfaces, contact and contactless, as well as a linkage function. The DualPlus card not only costs less to issue than JCB's hybrid smart card, which incorporates two separate chips, but the linkage allows information sharing between contact and contactless functions.

This card features an EMV-compliant contact interface. For the contactless interface, we adopted the popular FeliCa* specification that is already in use in a number of transportation systems around Asia. DualPlus was developed in technological cooperation with the three world-renowned companies of Sony, Hitachi, and Toppan Printing, and is the first dual interface card compliant with EMV and FeliCa.

*FeliCa is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.

The linkage function supports information sharing between the contact and contactless interfaces. For example, cardmembers can purchase transportation value with a credit payment through the contact interface on a home PC and smart card reader, and then use the value through the contactless interface at an automatic ticket gate. This linkage function integrates the smart card's across both contact and contactless devices for optimal flexibility in use.

First of all the DualPlus with only one chip is much cheaper than the hybrid smart card, which has two separate chips for contact and contactless interfaces.
Secondly, regardless of whether the environment is contact or contactless, the linkage function can transfer the value or information on the chip between the two interfaces as needed.

As you have seen in the video, the multi-functionality of the DualPlus smart card delivers more - and more enjoyable - services to cardmembers, using both contact and contactless functions.