Open Your Hotel Room With Your Apple Watch!!!
Starwood & Hilton Hotels Announce Virtual Room Keys
A few weeks ago, I reported on potentially being able to open and start your Tesla car with an iPhone. Recently, Starwood hotels announced they launched their SPG Keyless hotel room lock service that will allow Apple Watches, and bluetooth LE equipped iPhone models to unlock their hotel room doors. All iPhones beginning with the iPhone 4s Model, moving forward will function to unlock the hotel room door locks. So just to be clear, the system does NOT use NFC.
The coolest features, is hotel guests will be able to check-in and check-out from their Apple Watch or iPhone, thus allowing them to bypass the front desk all-together!!! Hilton Worldwide also recently announced they will also be introducing their own bluetooth based smart key system that can run on Apple and Android based smartphones. A Hilton representative recently said "Never before has a hotel guest been able to check-in, select their room from a digital floor plan, request items to be ready upon arrival, and then access their room via their smartphone and find it exactly the way they requested it. We’re truly revolutionizing travel by making the stay experience more convenient."
