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Service key for business Car-Sharing D'Ieteren and Continental joint venture form.
The technology company and the automotive service provider form a joint venture for the development and implementation of various car-sharing services.
Key live, headquartered in Brussels, provides services worldwide for car sharing operators and fleet.
Joint venture applications illustrate the possibilities of the wide range of future services in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems ITS.
The technology company Continental and key public Ieteren D of automotive services company formed the venture OTA Regensburg Brussels, 12 March 2015 increasing interest in alternatives to ownership of the classic car is triggering a boom in car-sharing services to achieve these new services of cars and vehicles as convenient and secure as possible, the international technology company Continental and Belgian D'Ieteren auto service group formed a joint venture to develop and implement various car-sharing services joint venture is called OTA key.
It bears the name of the new larger area of purely virtual car key products of the company are transmitted and used wirelessly via cellular telephones This technology can be used for corporate fleets, car sharing companies, and car rental agencies Alike the new company is based in Brussels.
Continental has over 20 years of experience in developing and producing electronic car keys We worked on a purely virtual car key from Live 2008 key will allow us to offer carpooling providers, fleet operators and car rental agencies a complete service set to give customers practical experience, safe and even spontaneous behavior, says Andreas Wolf, head of the security business unit Body Continental OTA key is a clear sign of the various possibilities that intelligent transport systems will offer.
As a services company in the automotive industry, we work for years on a range of solutions to create easy to use and secure key services OTA expands the options considerably and especially at our disposal give the end customer a exceptional experience the ability to spontaneously hunt without bureaucracy whatsoever with providers across Europe offering this service in Asia and America will be our next goals, Cardinael explains Thibaut, CEO live keys, from D'Ieteren .
Key OTA develops and distributes virtual vehicle keys e g purely that can be transmitted and used wirelessly via a cell phone Download Image.
The heart of the OTA key system is the key of the virtual smartphone smartphones for data exchange with the vehicle using the communication NFC or Near Field WHEAT low energy Bluetooth power saving driver uses a smartphone application to reserve the vehicle needed to convenience the OTA key system then sends a record of cell phone data encrypted tamper-proof virtual key is stored on the SIM card smartphone It contains the authorization to access the necessary vehicles using NFC or BLE standard, the mobile phone transmits data authentication, and vehicle diagnostic data and user profile to the reader in the car it can be integrated into the vehicle doors, eg another receiver within the car checks the virtual key in the smartphone before the engine is started, and the vehicle is ready to go.
Key Live uses the smartphone intelligence and requires NFC or Near Field Communication BLE Bluetooth low energy in the car Download Image.
Thibaut Cardinael is confident that the new company can change the way the everyday user of the various mobility services will interact with their vehicles, we can provide fleet operators a range of ways to make practical and easy to use vehicles connected Version smartphone via the virtual key is the most advanced version this shows what can be achieved with intelligent connectivity, secure data transmission and a high performance backend.
Continental has already achieved the technology of virtual key in several prototype vehicles Download Image.
An application allows new concepts of fast and easy mobility.
Key OTA offers customers the necessary digital infrastructure This also includes an application for end customers smartphones, which is tailored to the needs of the fleet or operator of car sharing Users can use the application to find, select and reserve vehicles available smartphone can then navigate even the user to the location of the car, it is even possible to rent a vehicle spontaneously with OTA key service in this case, the user only needs to hold his phone cell against the door of the car free and a virtual key is automatically generated on this virtual key server is sent to the smartphone after an availability check was made the virtual key unlocks the car and, depending on how it is programmed the application retrieves additional data on the state of the vehicle, before becoming a con navigation system Vivial.
The OTA key system has been beneficial A pilot project was carried out in Toulouse and a fleet of car sharing in Monaco is now the first to use the system developed by OTA keys.
Cheaper, more secure, and therefore more convenient virtual key in practice.
The OTA key system has been beneficial A pilot project was carried out in Toulouse.
While most car-sharing fleets currently still rely on systems that combine all the information in the vehicle, the OTA key system uses the smartphone intelligence and requires NFC or BLE technology in the car this approach many advantages the main advantage is the considerable reduction of costs by using a virtual key, the investment per vehicle can be significantly reduced.
A fleet of car sharing in Monaco is now one of the first fleets to use the OTA key system.
The second major benefit of the virtual car key from key OTA is its exceptionally high level of security It works in the same data space and the same principles as the payment functions that are stored on a growing number of cell phones and therefore meets strict requirements banks in addition, the data is synchronized between the cell phone and the vehicle in an encrypted format the user is not bothered by these security procedures, the opposite This makes it easier to use as ever the system.
Virtual car key prospects in personal mobility manager.
And this is just the beginning, since the OTA key system is freely scalable and can be easily expanded to include new functions at any time, for example, it will also be possible in the future to save the settings on the personal vehicle Virtual car key the system already allows automatic Bluetooth pairing with the cell phone This could also be used in the future to transmit favorite radio channels or safety preferences to the driver immediately feels at home in a car hire short-term digital key to the joint venture of Continental and D'Ieteren also provides all the necessary features for use in other modes of transport in this way, the keys to the OTA is also a precursor of various opportunities in the field of intelligent transport systems, which identifies as Continental a growth market.
Sebastian Fillenberg External Communications Continental Interior Division Sodener Strasse 9 65824 Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany Phone 49 6196 87-3709.
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