Manage updates with the Download AppNeed to lend your key? E-mail it, Fraunhofer says
HANOVER, Germany--You're traveling and your coworker needs your key to get into your office. Why not just e-mail it?
That's the idea behind Fraunhofer Institute's Key2Share technology, which the German research lab is developing in partnership with Bosch and showing off here at the CeBIT show.
Key2Share uses smartphones equipped with near-field communications (NFC) short-range wireless networking abilities to unlock phones. But because approval to use the key becomes digital data, a person can e-mail that approval.
It could be useful for other situations, too, said Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, a researcher involved with the project. For example, a … Read more
