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Mobile Phones to be Used as Keys for Hotel Rooms

Mobile Phones to be Used as Keys for Hotel Rooms It’s possible that hotel room keys will be made redundant at some time in the future due to a system replacing them which uses mobile phones.

A French company, OpenWays has discovered this new method to open hotel room doors, whereby guests just need to hold their mobile phone up to the door and press the “key” button.

The company has designed an App for smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia operated by Windows and Android. The software produces an audio signal that can be “heard” by a hotel room door, according to a report in The Independent.

The unique, encrypted sound cannot be copied or recorded making it quite secure for users. Mobile phone customers will also be able to change rooms or book extra nights without the need to return to the front desk due to an added facility for updating the mobile data network.

According to OpenWays, the technology is in the process of being rolled out in major hotels and casino chains in Europe and North America. There is to be a demonstration of the new system at the ITB Berlin Convention, which started this week.

A check-in free service will be piloted at one of Aloft’s hotels, the company announced, where especially adapted radio frequency identification (RFID) loyalty cards will be used.

However, at present, the technology is appropriate for complementing near field communication services (NFC) which, while designed to be used on hotel key cards, are not yet ready for global integration in mobile phones.

The company commented: “This makes the deployment of mobile key applications possible today without having to wait for 2014 when NFC phones become readily available commercially.”


Industry News posted by Marilyn on 10 March 2010

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