The trend of no longer owning resources but using them as required and sharing them with others has become increasingly popular in the past few years with car, bike and scooter sharing – a market which is constantly growing

In the sharing economy, security plays an important role for providers as well as users. Vehicle access via smartcard or smartphone must also ensure that user security as well as system and data integrity are guaranteed.

Along with security, offline operation in parking garages and other shielded areas must be possible without comprising business models. User-specific configuration of vehicles based on personal preferences such as settings of navigation destinations, climate preference, seats and radio stations are playing an ever- greater role.

Private sharing, also called peer-to-peer sharing, is becoming more acceptable:  while you are not using your own vehicle, you can make it available to others. A vehicle’s capacitiy is better used, owners earn money, and participating drivers have access to a fleet of different vehicles.

Corporate fleets, consisting of passenger cars, trucks or also special-purpose vehicles such as forklifts, cranes or construction machinery, are an important mobility element for companies and often the central basis of business operations.

Vehicles must be used in a flexible way and managed in a transparent manner. Alongside the traditional key, fleet vehicles also integrate an employee’s identity as an access medium and more and more frequently accept the user’s smartphone as a mobile key. Along with verifying the driver’s license or, in special-purpose vehicles, a training certificate, bookings must record time stamps, be assigned to a cost center or issued to people outside the organization. Together with smartcard access, smartphones also provide for open and flexible systems as well as second factor authentication for securely accessing fleet vehicles.

LEGIC’s technology enables the combination of smartcards with a dynamic authorization structure configured via smartphone, plus biometric authentication options such as fingerprint or facial recognition.

Car keys are becoming more and more practical and convenient – today, modern remote keys remain in the driver’s pocket when opening and starting the vehicle.

Transferring these functionalities onto a smartphone makes the smartphone the best car key of all times.

Multiple authorized users, the easy and secure transfer of a key, the revocation or the time restriction of driving authorizations and especially the security of the mobile vehicle key pose challenges to system manufacturers.

LEGIC implements state-of-the-art security standards with regards to individual key management. This ensures that sovereignty over the security system lies solely with the operator.

Mobility as a service is becoming more and more popular. Standardized tickets for public transport are increasingly being replaced by personalized, digital solutions.

Users can now identify themselves with their smartphone or smartcard in every tram, bus, metro, shared bike, taxi or autonomous vehicle. Individual mobility preferences as well as flexible, customized routing are possible based on dynamic login information via smartphone.