Access control and identification systems components, namely, radio frequency identification (RFID) cards for radio frequency identification credentials, blank smart cards for identification credentials, encoded smart cards containing identification credentials; RFID cards with magnetic stripe for radio frequency identification credentials, blank smart cards with magnetic stripe for identification credentials, encoded smart cards with magnetic stripe containing identification credentials; RFID cards with optical bar coding stripe for identification credentials, blank smart cards with optical bar coding stripe for identification credentials, encoded smart cards with optical bar coding stripe containing identification credentials