SALEM, OR—Onity is supplying its DirectKey mobile access solution to Hilton Worldwide, enabling guests to use their smartphone as their room key.
The Onity DirectKey system uses cloud-based key credentialing and Bluetooth technology to allow hotel guests to securely download their assigned key to their smartphone through the hotel’s loyalty app for access to their guestroom and other access-controlled areas. Onity is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
The DirectKey technology has been deployed at more than 100 Hilton properties in the U.S. after a four-month trial that received high guest satisfaction ratings. Hilton intends to expand the mobile key feature to its full-service hotels in the United States by the end of the year.
Onity released its DirectKey system for major hotel brands in June 2015. The solution enables hotel IT and brand leaders to integrate mobile key access into their loyalty applications.
Hilton is making the mobile key technology available through its HHonors app as a “Digital Key” feature. Onity provided Hilton a mobile software toolkit for the app integration, as well as a comprehensive credentialing solution including a cloud-based platform to manage guest access and Bluetooth hardware modules on hotel door locks and readers to enable access with mobile devices.
Onity’s DirectKey credentialing technology provides a secure virtual key for Hilton hotel guests. The system activates an “unlock” button on Hilton HHonors members’ app screen when they are within close range of their door. By pressing the button, guests can gain access to their assigned room.