We use our telephones for
everything these days that it reminds me of the old science fiction movies
where they even took your temperature with a device they spoke
into. Most of us do not wear
wristwatches anymore to tell time and most of us track all our banking and
stock market trading on our phones. They
thought of something else they can do
with our portable phones. It seems to
all be in an effort to create a paperless and now card free society.
I am talking about greeting cards and all the plastic we used to carry
in our wallets.
Some of the plastic we used to
carry in our wallets
included hotel key cards. We can deal them out soon since there has been an app created to replace them. The hotel room key may become as obsolete as the brass room key it replaced. Door lock vender's have developed the technology to let smart phones function as keys, and the hotel industry is starting to experiment with it. The keys are activated through smart phone apps. When guests check in through the app, the hotel sends them their hotel room numbers and enables the phones to act as virtual keys. Does that mean I don’t have to talk to someone at the hotel lobby? Will that job disappear too?
included hotel key cards. We can deal them out soon since there has been an app created to replace them. The hotel room key may become as obsolete as the brass room key it replaced. Door lock vender's have developed the technology to let smart phones function as keys, and the hotel industry is starting to experiment with it. The keys are activated through smart phone apps. When guests check in through the app, the hotel sends them their hotel room numbers and enables the phones to act as virtual keys. Does that mean I don’t have to talk to someone at the hotel lobby? Will that job disappear too?
Sensors in the door can detect
and verify the phone through technology such as Blue tooth. There’s no need to wait in line at the front
desk. “We’re eliminating keys!” says Phil Dumas the President of UniKey, which
is partnering with Miwa Lock to offer key less entry, said at last week’s HITEC
Hospitality Technology Conference. This
is a boom and completely new change to the security business as a whole. Imagine the surge of business for these companies as locks across
the world disappear into just being scanners.
Hotel Tonight, a last-minute
room-booking mobile app, said it would
offer mobile check-in and “key-less entry” powered by Brivo Labs on Android
devices. The technology won’t work unless the hotels installs compatible
hardware on their door locks. Hotel Tonight
says it is in talks with major global hotel brands to adopt the technology.
The problem is that change costs money.
That’s probably what has held up the widespread use of virtual
keys. Hotel companies have been reluctant
to invest in changing or retrofitting locks.
So it is the day after the 4th
of July. A day we clean up after the party,
the celebrations and we have time to reflect on how great this country really is. We still have the dreamers and innovators
here to always think of something new.
Honey! Just keep your phone charged
so we can get into our hotel room. It
sounds weird but get used to it. Now if
we could only find an easier way to charge our phones. They would be fully charged if both every time
we say something stupid or did something dumb on the phone would create some
power.
Keyless entry locks also known as electronic door locks add an additional level of security for both homeowners and business owners.Keyless entry is the preferred and usual mode of dealing with door locks nowadays.
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