Access solutions: automated and secure

LEGIC provides end-to-end mobile solutions to technology partners and major hotel chains. Our proven solutions for hotels incorporate cloud-based management for mobile keys, universal multi-standard locks and secure, low-cost key cards.

Overview

Innovative access solutions for hotels

Mobile room keys with LEGIC Connect is the perfect choice for your cloud-based virtual key requirements.

LEGIC Connect provides an easy-to-integrate, end-to-end mobile access control solution which can be used with existing property and key card management systems. Set up hotel guest and employee smartphone access quickly based on NFC or Bluetooth Low Energy. Manage hotel security from the cloud, independent of deployment size and number while fulfilling all security requirements of the hotel industry. A Software Development Kit allows you to quickly integrate a mobile key system into your existing hotel app based on iOS and Android. A proven solutions, LEGIC Connect is successfully deployed at major hotel chains around the world.

Your profit is your guest's benefit

Your Profit

  • Increase revenue by direct bookings via hotel mobile app

  • Improve customer loyalty and strengthen your image

  • High security, cost and time saving

  • Complete solution from one lock vendor neutral supplier

  • Easy and secure integration

  • Existing door locks don't need to be exchanged

Guest's benefits

  • "Straight-to-room" support without queuing at the reception

  • Direct booking with smartphone

  • Free credential choice (key card or smartphone)

  • Multi-application

  • Always in your pocket

  • Never forget the room number

Asking questions about mobile ID solutions for hospitality

All major hotel chains are testing the technology or rolling it out already. Passing the queue at the reception desk, getting special offers from the hotel, direct contact to the hotel, etc. are only some of the advantages guests have with mobile room keys. However, the hotel itself does also have many benefits: saving expensive travel agent fees, getting direct access to the customers and providing guests with a room key they always carry and love.

The current ongoing chain activities point towards a trend that mobile access will become rather sooner than later a standard alternative method to enter hotel rooms. Smartphones and room keys will coexist for a long time, but mobile solutions have already been spread through different hotel brands.

It is likely that guests soon expect direct-to-room access as a standard “must have” feature when booking a hotel. Especially business travelers profit from a direct-to-room experience. First market feedbacks show that those who opened a hotel room with their smartphone would like to have it on their next stay, too. This will drive even smaller hotel chains, boutique hotels or family owned hotels to adopt the mobile technology.

To deploy room keys (smartphones, smart watches, etc.), hotels need to consider and align different systems and technologies:

  • Property management system must be able to process room reservations for remote check-in procedures
  • Hotel back-end system must be able to process and submit mobile key requests
  • New system is needed to execute over-the-air deployments of room keys
  • Mobile app or existing loyalty app of the hotel needs to be able to receive a mobile room key and unlock a room
  • Hotel lock needs to be able to process a BLE command next to a regular key card

LEGIC provides a simple solution which makes mobile room keys a true success:

  • Trusted over-the-air service for the deployment of electronic room keys to iOS and Android smartphones (LEGIC Connect)
  • Powerful reader ICs for hotel locks, which read mobile phones via Bluetooth Low Energy and all types of contactless RFID chip cards
  • Latest generation contactless chip cards to improve security and save costs at the same time vs. existing technologies

Customers have the choice to use only one element of the solution or take advantage of all three options.

LEGIC technology is distributed through the Partner Network. Some of these partners provide room locks, room keys and key encoding equipment to your chains today. LEGIC technology usually is invisible to the hotel chain or the individual property. The technology, such as the trusted service, the Software Development Kits or our smartcard and reader ICs, are embedded into our partner's solutions.

The LEGIC technology is often used in different market verticals. The hospitality market can be a market, in which our technology is used, but not necessarily is a market LEGIC technology found its way into. In the past, LEGIC technology was clearly an exception in the hospitality market. With the demand for mobile solutions and more secure and cost-saving room keys, LEGIC technology has entered this market. Today, some of the main technology leaders in the hotel market have adopted LEGIC technology. And the demand is increasing.

To continue this trend, LEGIC stimulates the dialog with all hotel technology providers, such as hotel lock providers or property management system providers. In discussions with the hotel chain, LEGIC makes them aware that their properties can benefit from LEGIC solutions. LEGIC is happy to give its advice, or consult them to achieve platform independence, additional choice and cost savings. As LEGIC works with multiple technology vendors, and therefore enjoys an independent reputation in the general access markets.

Guest convenience, branding and potential cost savings are usually key drivers for the chain’s decision towards their own mobile access solutions in the hotel industry. With the introduction of hotel apps, chains continue their search for content and services, to increase the usage of their apps.

Calculating the exact cost savings for a solution that is entirely new to the hotel industry and its guests is nearly impossible. Most experts believe that there will be a cost benefit. However, methods to quantify such estimated guesses where not available for public use until today.

To calculate the potential individual cost savings, LEGIC has made available a free calculator. Interested parties can calculate their benefits (over three years) free of charge and anonymized.

Next to pure cost savings, we encourage hotels and technology providers for hotel locks and property management systems to consider additional factors for a migration towards mobile keys:

  1. Make sure a mobile solution scales up to 10,000 of properties for different chains.
  2. End-to-end security, a high availability design of the solution and professional hosting in a secure data center are typical key success factors.
  3. Easy upgrade of existing locks, e.g. magstripe locks could be upgraded to BLE and RFID locks in one.
  4. Locks should not be restrained to only one technology. Hotels can switch from a MIFARE card to another and save costs as well as improve security.

Contact us - LEGIC can help to make your mobile approach a true success.

Any application

With the LEGIC technology platform, combine and manage applications in line with your needs. Up to 127 applications can be stored securely on a smartcard, NFC smartphone or credit card. The system can also be subsequently extended and individual requirements implemented.

Here is a selection of the most commonly used applications based on LEGIC products and services:

Access Control

Adjust the security standard to the relevant business sector and select your identification media and suppliers.

eTicketing

Fraud-proof, cheap and easy to control. Save costs with the travel card of the future.

Time & Attendance

Optimal additions of other applications. Data is protected according to the latest standards.

ePayment

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