Hotel key card, often called hotel door lock card, is usually made of plastic PVC material and is used to access a hotel room. The card has specific information encoded on it that can be used to unlock the electronic lock on the hotel door of the designated room. The hotel key card help hotel managers to quickly register housing information and guests save check-in and check-out time.
Hotel key card type:
– Magnetic stripe cards
The most common types are:
LoCo 300 OE
HiCo 2750 OE
– NFC/RFID cards:
The common types of chips including
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 card is a comon and convenient way to control access to hotel room.
With magnetic stripe cards, these card have a magnetic stripe on the back of the card, the common magnetic stripe is with low coercivity (LoCo) 300 OE and high coercivity (HiCo) 2750 OE, that 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, is relied on technologies such as NFC or RFID to encode the information in the card. They allow hotel guests to enter rooms without touching the hotel key card system. Similarly 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 holder/sleeve to keep your hotel key cards secure and accessible anytime. The key card holder is a simple but elegent way of presenting room keys to your guests. With HYDGIFT, you can customise key card holders for your hotel key cards easily and quickly.
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