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BS EN ISO/IEC 7811-7:2018

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Identification cards. Recording technique – Magnetic stripe: High coercivity, high density

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BSI 2018 32
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This document is one of a series of standards describing the characteristics for identification cards as defined in the definitions clause and the use of such cards for international interchange.

This document specifies requirements for a high coercivity magnetic stripe (including any protective overlay) on an identification card and encoding technique. It takes into consideration both human and machine aspects and states minimum requirements.

Coercivity influences many of the quantities specified in this document but is not itself specified. The main characteristic of the high coercivity magnetic stripe is its improved resistance to erasure. This is achieved with minimal probability of damage to other magnetic stripes by contact while retaining read compatibility with magnetic stripes as defined in ISO/IEC 7811‑2.

This document provides for a card capacity of approximately 10 times that of a card conforming to ISO/IEC 7811‑6. The number of tracks has been increased to 6, each track being approximately half the width of tracks conforming to ISO/IEC 7811‑6, located so that readers designed to read these high density tracks will also be able to read cards conforming to ISO/IEC 7811‑2 and ISO/IEC 7811‑6. Data is encoded in 8 bit bytes using the MFM encoding technique. Data framing is used to limit error propagation and error correction techniques further improve reliability of reading.

It is the purpose of the ISO/IEC 7811 series of standards to provide criteria to which cards shall perform. No consideration is given within these standards to the amount of use, if any, experienced by the card prior to test. Failure to conform to specified criteria is negotiated between the involved parties.

ISO/IEC 10373‑2 specifies the test procedures used to check cards against the parameters specified in this document.

NOTE Numeric values in the SI and/or Imperial measurement system in this document may have been rounded off and are consistent with, but not exactly equal to each other. Using either system is correct but intermixing or reconverting values can result in errors. The original design was made using the Imperial measurement system.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
2 National foreword
6 Foreword
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
8 3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
10 3.2 Symbols and abbreviated terms
4 Conformance
5 Physical characteristics of the identification card
5.1 General
5.2 Magnetic stripe area warpage
5.3 Surface distortions
11 6 Physical characteristics of the magnetic stripe
6.1 Height and surface profile of the magnetic stripe area
12 6.1.1 Surface profile of the magnetic stripe area
13 6.1.2 Height of the magnetic stripe area
6.2 Surface roughness
6.3 Adhesion of stripe to card
14 6.4 Wear of magnetic stripe from read/write head
6.5 Resistance to chemicals
7 Performance characteristics for the magnetic material
7.1 General
7.2 Testing and operating environment
7.3 Signal amplitude requirements for magnetic media
16 8 Data structure
17 9 Encoding specification
9.1 Angle of recording
18 9.2 Nominal bit density
9.3 Flux transition spacing variation
9.4 Signal amplitude requirements
9.5 Bit configuration
19 9.6 Direction of recording
9.7 Leading and trailing clock bits
10 Data structure
10.1 Track format
10.1.1 Track layout
20 10.1.2 FSC
21 10.1.3 Data frame
10.2 Coding for error detection and correction
22 10.2.1 Track CRC
23 10.2.2 Column parity
10.2.3 Frame CRC
24 11 Decoding
12 Location of encoded tracks
26 Annex A (informative) Compatibility of magnetic stripes (ISO/IEC 7811‑6, ISO/IEC 7811‑7)
27 Annex B (informative) Magnetic stripe abrasivity
28 Annex C (informative) Static magnetic characteristics
30 Annex D (informative) Reed-Solomon code references
BS EN ISO/IEC 7811-7:2018
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