As the vehicle fleet renews itself, more and more technology-enhanced features are coming to all vehicles. One of them, which many already appreciate, is the open the doors and start the car with a digital key on your mobile. You might even like it already. Now comes the turn of the owners of Audi who have smartphones Galaxy from Samsung.
Your Galaxy will be the key to your Audi
It is starting to reach Europe. This same month, this functionality begins to be deployed in the countries of our continent which includes Europeaccording to Samsung itself in a press release. It will then be rolled out to the rest of the world. With it we can take advantage of the Digital Key to open and close specific Audi models with our Galaxy smartphone.
With the Remote Access Key(Remote Keyless Entry or RKE), you can both lock and unlock the doors of the vehicle in question, and even open the trunk in cars that also have electric trunk opening.
To use this system, our Galaxy only has to store digital key in Samsung Wallet. In this way, to open the doors, use the ultra wide band (Ultra Wide Band, UWB), the same as that used for example with the Galaxy SmartTag. This is the standard established by the Car Connectivity Consortium. and hence, this will be a feature available only on Galaxy phones with this feature.
In terms of security, there is nothing to worry about since digital keys like this are stored on the device itselfthey do not go up to the cloud at any time, and they are encrypted and protected with EAL6+ protocol.
In addition, if for some reason we lose our Galaxy, from Samsung Find we can both lock it and delete only the digital key.
As they say, this advantage will start becoming available later this monthso if you own a German brand car and a Galaxy and want to use it, you can pay attention, you should soon be able to use your cell phone as a car key.
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