Hotel cards, good-bye. You can use your phone to open rooms with the Google Wallet app
Google has made a real leap in user experience with Google Wallet over the past year, and it aims to continue that trend in 2025. The app can already be used to pay for public transportation, and it will now allow you to unlock the doors of your home or hotel.
Some tourist accommodations that use cards to open rooms will be able to say goodbye to this system thanks to Google Wallet. Doors can be easily opened by bringing the mobile phone close to the sensor.
Google intends to turn Google Wallet into a digital wallet that will allow you to perform all kinds of actions besides payments. The application will store passports in some countries, such as the United States, public transport tickets, and car keys, and they are also working on a version for minors with parental control tools.
Google announced the ability to open rooms with a key in Google Wallet last summer and first began testing the system at a hotel in Sweden. The Clarion Post Hotel was the first in a long line of companies to adopt the new feature offered by the one in Mountain View.
American hotel chain Club Quarters has become the first company in the world to offer its guests the ability to unlock all of their room doors using Google Wallet. The company operates in 15 cities, including New York, London, and Boston.
Hotels provide keys to add the card to Google Wallet while recording their data, and customers forget about the very common losses in some situations. Hotel chains also benefit from this feature by saving costs, although Google still has to convince all companies.