Modern technologies already allow to use your smartphone as electronic purse and travel document, a number of systems allows to use this device instead of the "electronic key" by limiting physical access to infrastructure. At least if you believe the experts Gartner, in 2016 less than 5% of organizations use a smartphone as a badge, but if the current trend contunie by 2020 the share of such organizations will increase to 20%.
According to supporters of the initiative, the use of smartphones in systems limit physical access to the objects laying in them great potential of modernization with the subsequent savings in updating readers, who now have to change with the release of new standards and technologies. Smartphones can be used to communicate with the readers and NFC Bluetooth wireless interfaces, and is a functional heterogeneity equip smartphones presents a problem for the implementation of such initiatives.
Experts believe that the use of smartphones in the biometric authentication technologies will "unload" readers security systems. The primary user authentication biometric parameters will carry a smartphone, and only then to provide security of such verification. To some extent, the introduction of biometric authentication will protect smartphones against theft with a view to penetrate the protected objects. It is noteworthy that the system of "smart home", and on-board car systems are increasingly tied to the recognition of the holder's identity via a smart phone, but because its failure or loss can be a serious hazard to human.