The new NFC application from SimonsVoss makes it possible to make the vision a reality for a wide range of practical applications: for example, it can furnish the users’ smartphone with access authorizations via mobile phone networks and allow them NFC-based access to the renowned SimonsVoss locks – in other words to digital locking cylinders, digital Smart Handles and digital Smart Relays.
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SimonsVoss now makes it possible to make this vision reality for a wide range of practical applications: for example, it can furnish the users' smartphone with access authorizations via mobile phone networks and allow them NFC-based access to the renowned SimonsVoss locks – in other words to digital locking cylinders,
digital Smart Handles and digital Smart Relays.
A practical application example: in the past, care providers and maintenance personnel had to procure the corresponding keys for their duties from a key depot and return them again afterwards. This was very time consuming and valuable working time was wasted every time.
With the new NFC-based key distribution procedure from SimonsVoss, access authorizations can now be sent directly to the employees' smartphones from the headquarters on a daily basis and, in emergencies, even for limited periods of time. At the place it is used, the mobile phone then communicates with the corresponding SimonsVoss lock components via an NFC interface. If the respective authorizations exist, the doors, gates and barriers are opened.
Access technology via app
From a technical perspective, it functions extremely easily from the user's point of view: the users download the SimonsVoss MobileKey app from the Apple Appstore to their iPhone. The locking systems administrator assigns the lock authorizations to his users as usual. Whenever something changes for a user with an NFC smartphone, a new smartcard data set is generated automatically and pushed to a central OTA (over the air) key server.
The user can then collect his daily or hourly lock authorizations simply at the push of a key in his MobileKey app. The keys can be configured by the administrator in such a way that they only work for a specified validity period and then expire again. The corresponding doors can then be opened – when the respective authorizations exist – by simply holding the smartphone to the reader integrated in the lock.