The use of RFID cards to open doors is widely used by various organisations in the tourism, security and facility management area. Enabling virtual keys on an NFC device adds a significant value in terms of provisioning and managing access rights of individual users. E.g. access rights are assigned over-the-air (OTA) the use of NFC technology improves the process significantly. A virtual key chain on the mobile phone visualises the available keys.
The management of opening and closing locks can be simplified using NFC enabled devices, e.g. a self service hostel issues digital keys for a defined period of time with a PIN code to their guests.
* Applications on NFC phones to emulate RFID based lock keys.
* Over the Air Management of Keys (Issuing and revoking process)
* Key Server
* A Web-Interface to manage the application
* Interfaces to existing infrastructure like reservation or key management systems
* Ease of use both for the end-user and the administrator
* Highest security level
* Reducing costs for lost keys and manual hand-over of keys
* Application support of Mifare, Key Emulation (Card emulation mode) and Peer to Peer Mode
* Compatible to existing ISO 14443 based locking solutions (ISO 15693 available on request)
* Support for various phones and mobile OS incl. iPhone, Android phones, Symbian, Blackberry and more.