ASSA ABLOY Hospitality has announced that German hotel chain prizeotel is using the ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access system to enhance security and convenience for three of the hotelier's locations in Bremen, Hamburg and Hannover. Mobile Access, which ASSA ABLOY's HID Global division launched in 2014, is designed to let guests use their own smartphones as digital room keys (see RFID News Roundup: HID Global Intros HID Mobile Access, Enabling Smartphone-based Access Control).

Mobile Access allows guests to use a mobile app to obtain a digital key and completely bypass front desk lines upon arriving at the hotel. It works with a hotel's property-management system in order to allocate a guestroom and generate a digital key that is encrypted and securely delivered to the guest's smartphone, and the smartphone places the key in a secure key vault within the mobile app. When the phone is presented to the appropriate lock, the app transmits the encrypted key securely via the phone's Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, thereby ensuring that only authorized users receive digital key information and gain access. Mobile Access leverages ASSA ABLOY's Seos, which the company launched in 2012 (see ASSA ABLOY Creates NFC Solution that Uses Phones to Open Doors, Grant Computer Access).

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At prizeotel, Mobile Access works in conjunction with ASSA ABLOY's VingCard Signature RFID door locks that have also been installed. The VingCard Signature RFID solution requires only a small RFID reader on the door, and Signature RFID is also armed with advanced anti-cloning technology to protect against unauthorized access. The locks work with VingCard Visionline, a patented data-communication platform from ASSA ABLOY Hospitality.

Hotel guests can download the ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access app from the Google Play and iTunes websites.