Smartphones to be used as hotel room keys

The hotel group Starwood is to begin giving hotel guests the option to by-pass check-in and simply use their smartphones to enter their hotel rooms.

The chain has upgraded 30,000 room locks in its nearly 150 hotels to work with the system, which uses Bluetooth technology.

Rival chain Hilton is planning a similar move early next year for the 600,000 rooms in its portfolio.

The BBC was given a demonstration of the new system and spoke to Chris Holdren, Starwood's Senior Vice President, and
Dr Selva Selvaratnam, the chief technology officer of HID global, the company which designed the locks' security.

Nice isnt it?

Source : BBC