Hotel key cards provide a flexible and secure way to manage hotel room access, improving both convenience for guests and operational efficiency for hotel staff.
Hotel key cards, often called hotel room access cards, are typically made of plastic PVC material and are used to gain access to hotel rooms. The cards are encoded with specific information that can be used to unlock the electronic locks on designated guest room doors. Hotel key cards help hotel staff quickly process guest registration and save guests time during check-in and check-out.
Hotel key card type:
– Magnetic stripe key cards
The most common types are:
LoCo 300 OE
HiCo 2750 OE
– NFC/RFID key cards:
The common types of chips include:
NXP Mifare Classic 1K S50
NXP Ultralight EV1
NXP Ntag 213/215/216
Fudan FM11RF08
ATMEL T5577
EM4305/4205, etc.
How do hotel key cards work?
Hotel key cards are a common and convenient way to control access to hotel rooms.
Magnetic stripe cards have a magnetic stripe on the back of the PVC card. The common magnetic stripe is low coercivity (LoCo) 300 OE and high coercivity (HiCo) 2750 OE, which allows data to be stored inside the magnetic stripe. This will ensure that your hotel key card encoder successfully transfers lock data to your cards. When the card is swiped or inserted into a card reader on the hotel room door, the reader decodes the information stored on the stripe, and then they grant hotel room access.
For NFC/RFID cards, we rely on technologies such as NFC or RFID to encode the information on the card. They allow hotel guests to enter rooms without touching the hotel key card system. Similar to modern car keys, when the card is close to the door, guests can access their rooms.
Hotel door lock suppliers and brands include:
ASSA ABLOY (Formerly VingCard)
Onity
Kaba
ILCO
Salto
Saflok
Tesa
Adel
Cisa
Miwa
Inhova
Betech
Hafele
Overall, hotel key cards provide a flexible and secure way to manage hotel room access, improving both convenience for guests and operational efficiency for hotel staff.
Meanwhile, we can provide key card holders or sleeves to keep your hotel key cards secure and accessible at any time. The key card holder is a simple but elegant way of presenting room keys to your guests. With HYDGIFT, you can customize key card holders for your hotel key cards easily and quickly.
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