Week posting for friday 10th november 06

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European hotel guests get room keys on mobile phones thanks to NFC
By Andy Williams, 05.10.06

This article is about a new and a revolutionary tecnology for the hotel's check -in & check-out : the opportunity for the guest to go directly to his room when he arrived and so don't stop and wait at the reception, and this thanks to his mobil phone NFC (Near Field Communications) compatible : he makes his booking and will be proposed to receive an NFC room key, then he will get his room number througt an sms with the hotel address. So very simple and usefull for the guest (win time) and for the hotel too (less work and shambles at the front office, better security). This system in addition to the NFC moblie phone can function with contacless cards, wristbands, key fobs and paper tickets.

This service is now developped in Europe and will arrive soon in America. Finally, even if for the moment only new monile phone have the NFC technology, for 2010 the half of the mobile phone will have this function so it's a very interesting new service.

Link :

http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/content/article/

061011_mobile_phones_as_hotel_room_keys/