The Woodlands Resort & Conference Center with its 406 rooms is the first hotel in Texas providing its guests a very special experience: access a room, call an elevator or open external entry doors by simply holding the personal smartphone up to the reader. This new, state-of-the-art technology is provided by Legic Connect and Kaba’s mobile access solutions.

At the Woodlands property, which is owned by The Howard Hughes Corporation, Legic Connect facilitated a fast mobile set up and now, it ensures a reliable and highly secure guest experience. Based on Legic's Software Development Kit, Woodlands’ own app was created.

The new guest experience is simple: guests book their room on Woodland’s website and download the free hotel app. As soon as their personal room is ready, they receive the Bluetooth-enabled room key wirelessly onto their mobile phones. They don’t need to queue at the reception and wait for a key card. Klaus U. Klosa, Legic’s Managing Director is convinced of the new technology: “Legic Connect not only relieves administrative work for hotels, it also reduces costs and improves guest satisfaction.”

Legic recently published a free value calculator hotels can use to calculate their individual potential cost savings.

Using Connect, the process of deploying electronic room keys to cell phones is designed to be fast, simple, secure and it stays in the background.

The heart of the system is, what the company believes is a well-designed security concept by Legic experts with over 20 years’ experience in the security industry. Two fully redundant certified data centres with several tamper proven hardware security modules transfer an encrypted “secure authorisation” to the hotel guest’s mobile phone. This authorisation is only decrypted when holding the smartphone in front of the room door lock.