At CARTES in Paris, Ingersoll Rand is demonstrating how aptiQmobile uses MIFARE DESFire. Live demonstrations are showing how aptiQmobile allows users to employ their own NFC enabled smartphones like a badge ID, to gain access.
NXP will demonstrate at CARTES (Paris) how aptiQmobile uses MIFARE DESFire security. This will let users employ their own NFC-enabled smartphones like a badge ID to gain access to buildings and other ID card applications.
To turn NFC-enabled smartphones into an access control credential, a secure, mobile credential gets created in the aptiQmobile cloud service and sent to the user’s phone. Once the mobile credential and aptiQmobile app is downloaded to their phone, the user taps his or her smartphone on the reader in the same way one uses an ID card.
Diane Kehlenbeck, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, director of strategic alliances, says: “Leveraging MIFARE DESFire key diversification for offline credentials, we are adding exclusive technologies that enable a secure peer-to-peer (P2P) NFC mode, letting organizations begin providing the convenience of using a mobile device instead of a key or badge ID. aptiQmobile will be available on Android NFC-enabled phones regardless of choice of carriers and will also work on unlocked phones. For the Apple iPhone, we will offer a case as an additional option in order to NFC-enable it.”
The P2P makes aptiQmobile independent of any carrier, creating a universal solution, and it works on unlocked phones. It lets customers across multiple market segments, from higher education to commercial offices, deploy. With the launch of aptiQmobile secure P2P technology, customers who are ready will be able to begin the transition soon, the makers claim.
Christian Lackner, director MIFARE convergence products at NXP Semiconductors and chairperson of the MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group, says: “NXP is enabling aptiQ to accept a continuum of credential technologies with a single multi-tech reader. And, to ensure a higher level of security, aptiQ readers include a MIFARE Secure Access Module from NXP. As a result, Ingersoll Rand is leading in innovation with technologies such as P2P, MIFARE DESFire and MIFARE4Mobile to provide secure, yet flexible products to their customers.”
For those already using aptiQ readers, there will be no need to replace readers to use aptiQmobile. aptiQ readers can work with magnetic stripe, proximity, and smart cards as well as the aptiQmobile credential all in one reader, providing a migration path to upgrade credentials between any of those versions at their own pace. Customers can continue to operate in a hybrid world of cards and mobile if needed.
More on using smart phones as a secure, mobile credential is available at www.aptiQmobile.com.
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