Telematics firm RentalMatics and digital key supplier Liberkee introduced an integration through a brand new partership in October to advance the alternatives of contactless automotive rental. It permits clients to supply an app-based expertise along with the basic counter-centric journey.

In line with the corporate, Liberkee’s know-how turns the smartphone right into a digital key through an app. Every key may be created individually and restricted in time. The important thing may be despatched contactlessly to the app on the client’s smartphone and is prepared to be used in the course of the reserving interval. With one click on, the car may be locked and unlocked. Liberkee additionally supplies necessary telematics knowledge to the automotive rental firm. This consists of mileage, gasoline stage, and power stage  for EVs, battery cost standing, and GPS location. The GPS location is displayed within the app concurrently the important thing, permitting the client to navigate simply to the car.

With the combination into the RentalMatics system and RentalMatics app, automotive rental corporations can additionally acquire perception into the telematics knowledge of every particular person car. Digital key administration frees up most of the ache factors related to day-to-day key administration. Keys are now not wanted to be looked for, keys can now not be misplaced, and so they can now not be utilized in an unauthorized method, in accordance with the corporate. That is prevented by an asynchronous encryption methodology, which can also be utilized in banks and employed in Liberkee’s know-how.

“We’re excited to enter one other sturdy partnership with RentalMatics,” added Annika Saenger Acevedo, CMO of Liberkee. “The product is a cutting-edge that understands the wants of shoppers within the age of digitalization and supplies options. Because of this, the added worth not solely extends past on a regular basis use within the automotive rental course of and fleet administration, but additionally takes the client expertise to a brand new stage. RentalMatics understands, as we do, that the answer to enhance the client expertise is already in individuals’s palms: the smartphone. Our phone-as-a-key answer is subsequently an ideal match with RentalMatics’ objectives and applied sciences used. The cooperation is an absolute asset for the worldwide mobility sector.”