Add “hotel keycards” to the list of technologies the smartphone looks poised to kill. Hilton has announced that by next year, guests will be able to use their smartphones, rather than the traditional plastic cards, as their room keys. The move calls for Hilton hotels around the world to equip their rooms with the special smartphone key technology. Hilton is keeping mum on how the smartphone-based key services will work, but Hilton CEO Christopher J. Nassetta said the company “is developing proprietary technology that is safe and reliable for our guests to use and cost-effective for our hotels to install.” Naturally, using your smartphone as your room key raises some security concerns.
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