Vingcard Elsafe debuts mobile room-access solution

Hospitality security firm VingCard Elsafe, part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has provided an integrated solution for event staff to use their Xperia T NFC-enabled handsets to access their hotel rooms during this year’s Mobile World Congress, taking place from February 25-28 in Barcelona.

With the Seos application providedby door-opening solutions firm ASSA ABLOY, the trial participants, roaming from their home O2 UK operator, will check in at Hotel Porta Fira Santos, using their Sony handsets.

They will receive their digital room keys straight to their handset sent over the air and held securely in the Seos applet stored in their G&D NFC SIM in the XperiaT.

Then trial participants simply touch their handset to the NFC-compatible Signature RFID by VingCard electronic door lock reader to access their hotel roomd.

ASSA ABLOY has developed the Seos ecosystem to make this possible.

The Seos ecosystem consists of interoperable electromechanical locks and readers, mobile phone applications, a secure digital key delivery mechanism and a Trusted Service Manager.

Theseintegrated elements support issuing, delivering and revoking digital keyson NFC-enabled mobile devices that are used to open doors to homes, hotels, offices, universities, hospitals and commercial buildings.

Hotel Porta Fira Santos is considered one of the most high-technology hotels inthe Barcelona area.