A room key always at hand: easyHotel allows guests at its London City Shoreditch and Paris Aubervilliers hotels to unlock their room door. with a simple gesture. With their iPhone or Apple Watch. Louis Poisson, Director of Operations at easyHotel, is delighted with this initiative. be extended to other hotels in the near future ". The result of collaboration between mobile key delivery platform Alliants and dormakaba, the world leader in intelligent access control solutions, the solution eliminates the need for a physical key card, while offering customers a seamless check-in experience.
In practice, once the room key has been added and activated in Apple Wallet, customers simply need to bring their device close to the room key. NFC lock from the door for easy access to areas of the hotel protected by a key card. Without having to unlock their watch or phone thanks to Express mode, and without fear of running out of battery thanks to the Power Reserve function.
In addition to simplifying the lives of passengers, who, according to a study by the economic channel, more than 50% prefer mobile check-in and check-out, this innovation is also, and above all, part of a new approach to air travel. in easyHotel's low-carbon policy. By 2023, the chain had already swapped plastic key cards for FSC-certified wooden models, thereby avoiding the production of 55,000 plastic cards a year. But what better way of avoiding dependence on traditional keys than by making them virtual?
