Samsung will allow Galaxy phones to be used as digital car keys at the end of this year

she decided Samsung brought the digital key technology for cars to Galaxy phone users by the end of this year, after announcing its cooperation with car manufacturers at the conference to unveil the Galaxy S21 series at the beginning of the year to work on several technologies.

Samsung’s digital smart key technology will be available with the Genesis GV60 electric car for users starting from South Korea at the end of this year 2021. It will work through NFC technology NFC, and the UWB technology that it developed during the last period and works similar to Bluetooth technology in terms of distance and data transmission, but with greater protection and encryption.

This technology helps car owners to unlock their cars through smartphones easily in a way similar to the process of purchasing products through contactless points of sale It also helps to share the car key safely with family and friends, allowing them to give permission to use the car in an emergency or when needed, and then cancel this command.

will use Samsung Digital Key is what it refers to as an embedded security element designed to protect information and encrypt key data to prevent any possibility of key theft.

Samsung wants to rely on communication technology UWB is more on this matter due to its ability to encrypt data and prevent any interception of the connection, and is available with the latest flagship phones. But it will allow users who do not have these phones to use the digital key via the NFC technology that is available on most of its smartphones.

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