The Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sweden is currently running a trial to test a concept that’s been banging about for a while in other parts of the world: using your mobile phone as your room key in a hotel. Using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the hotel can register your own mobile phone as the item that unlocks your room.Almost everyone uses some form of smartcard these days, its very rare that you are actually handed a physical key. We either use cards that you slot into a reader, or cards that you simply hold up in front of the scanner to open your door, it is the latter that is being replaced.
The technology allows customers to check-in on-line or over mobile phone, and be sent the “room key” directly to their phone. Thus, customers can by-pass the front desk on arrival and go straight to their rooms. At the end of their stay, guests can repeat the process by checking out with their phone, taking away the need for any human contact.
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