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ASSA ABLOY Pilot Project with NFC Phones Shows Great Potential for Mobile Keys

The world's first pilot using NFC-enabled mobile phones to check in and out of hotel rooms, replacing room keys, is now completed

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

ASSA ABLOY, Nordic Choice Hotels, Giesecke & Devrient, TeliaSonera and VingCard Elsafe have completed a joint pilot project to replace hotel room keys with NFC-enabled mobile phones. During an eight-month long pilot at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sweden, about 30 hotel loyalty guests checked in to the hotel via a mobile key application. After the check-in, the hotel key was sent directly to the mobile phone. Upon arrival, the room could be directly accessed without the need to wait in...

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