— The world’s leading mobile key and access management solution provider selected by the major U.S and global hotel chains brings its proven and secure technology to consumers’ homes

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17, 2013 – OKIDOKEYS, part of OpenWays Group, today announces the launch of its first line of consumer products. OKIDOKEYS’ smart lock and key solution debuts at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2014, featuring a line of smart devices dedicated to home automation.

“The consumer smart Lock category is in its infancy, and we look to provide consumers with the best product on the market backed by a team having more than 100 years of access management and security experience,” said Pascal Metivier, founder and CEO of OpenWays. “OKIDOKEYS’ smart lock and smart key solution uses the same proven technology and security selected by the most demanding U.S and global hotel chains. We have worked hard to deliver a state-of-the-art product that provides consumers with a modern key management solution for their home. Using OKIDOKEYS, home owners can securely share or revoke a key to anyone at anytime from anywhere in the world.”

OpenWays technology provides hotel guests with a mobile key service that bypasses traditional hotel check in/out process. Guests proceed straight to their room upon arrival and securely open their room lock with any mobile phone, including non-smartphones. The provided service works with all mobile carriers worldwide. OpenWays uses highly secure encryption technologies, including AES 256-bit and 3D Secure login. These best-in-class security technologies are used to secure opening transactions and all related web-based transactions. The OpenWays solution involves a portfolio of intellectual property including 27 patents, design patents and pending patents.

See OpenWays’ mobile key technology in action on YouTube.

OKIDOKEYS smart locks are made to cost-efficiently enhance existing US ANSI grade 1 and grade 2 residential locks while the solution also perfectly applies to newly built homes. A European EN version of the product will also be available soon so all consumers around the world will able to enjoy OKIDOKEYS.

To offer the most practical opening device fitting each user’s preference, OKIDOKEYS’ smart locks are built on a unique multi-technology platform including: Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE), Near Field Communication (NFC), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Crypto Acoustic Credential (CAC) and OVN.

OKIDOKEYS will be located at CES Booth 74211 at The Venetian Las Vegas. To see the new product in action at the show, contact press@okidokeys.com. OKIDOKEYS will be available for purchase in Spring 2014 in the U.S. and other markets around the world.

For more information, visit www.okidokeys.com.

About OpenWays

OpenWays is the world-leading solutions provider of mobile-based access-management and security solutions. Located in the USA and in Europe, OpenWays provides technology solutions allowing for the secure issuance and delivery of access rights and keys processed via any the world’s 6.8 billion cell phones and smartphones operating on any network. The OpenWays and OKIDOKEYS teams combined have more than 100 years of experience in leadership positions with the world’s leading makers of access control systems and electronic locks. The OpenWays solution is truly unique as it is built on the concept of credential dematerialization. OKIDOKEYS is a company of the OpenWays Group.