Hotel Replaces Room Keys With Mobile Phones

Summary: Visitors planning to stay at a Stockholm hotel will be able to use their cell phones as a key to unlock their room. The world's larges maker of door locks has created a brand new way to use mobile phones. Recently it has been confirmed that customers attending a hotel will be able to place close-range chips into their phones, launched by a pilot, to open their room door. It is a process much like the self pay stalls at gas stations. Soon people will be able to check in through their phones, skip registration, and activate a phone as a key and holding it next to the door in order to open it. The new short-range radio technology is still trying to get the kinks all worked out before expanding to other buildings and hotels, but is expected to be built into smart phones in upcoming years. This new form of phone technology is said to be less time consuming and also a better form of security. Old keys will still be given out, but for people that wish to apply the new technology to their phones will have the chance to try it.

Opinion: I think that the technology today is becoming so much more advanced and the things people are inventing and coming up with are very creative, to the point where it is cool and convenient. The phone becoming your door key idea is great because it would cut time off of having to check in and out of hotels, the worry about losing your key would be eliminated, and you would be able to feel more safe knowing that you are the only one that has a key to your room. Although it could create a more clueless environment, as to the people that are staying in the hotel, but I feel like once issues and glitches are worked out in the system, it will become the more preferred way of door keys in hotels. Also not only would it work for hotels but it could also become a big seller for businesses, restaurants, and other buildings with locks. The world is becoming more advanced, and in a way that benefits our needs and conveniences.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39976610/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/