Project description
Biometrics in Things™ for the hospitality industry
One of the biggest costs in the hospitality industry is customer service and protecting customers’ security and privacy. For instance, it is vital for hotels to avoid treating returning guests as new customers and for untrained staff to inspect documents. The EU-funded YooniK project will deliver a significant global tech disruption in the hospitality industry. Biometrics in Things™ provides a trusted hospitality identity offering seamless guest experiences. The solution relies on an innovative proprietary Privacy with Benefits™ technology which goes well-beyond the General Data Protection Regulation to ensure privacy by design while preserving all the tailored and contextualised benefits. YooniK technology is backed by an innovation partnership with Intel Europe and recognised by major international hospitality players.
Objective
In an extremely competitive hospitality industry worth $570b in 2017, hotels spend vast amounts of time and money trying to know their customer, provide them with great experience, protect their security and safeguard their privacy. Still, after providing very sensitive personal information, returning guests are treated as an unknown customer, be kindly asked to wait in long lines to check-in or have breakfast and offered upselling or ancillary of no interest to her. Moreover, untrained staff checking documents and identities poses security threats and gives a false sense of security to society.
YooniK is set to deliver the next big global tech disruption: Biometrics in Things™(BiT). Starting in the hospitality industry, we believe to to be on a glazing path to become the de facto standard of a trusted Hospitality Identity, providing immersive and seamless guest experiences which are truly unique.Whether you want to seamlessly check into a hotel room and access the buffet breakfast lounge, pay for goods with a loyalty card, pick up your medicines at the pharmacy or enter your rental car: just face the camera and go! Powered by a strong belief in data privacy, we have additionally put very hard work into a novel proprietary Privacy with Benefits™ technology which goes well-beyond GDPR to ensure privacy by design while keeping all the tailored and contextualized benefits.
Backed up by an innovation partnership with Intel Europe and recognized by major international hospitality players representing 1% of the hotel rooms available in the world, our company is setting the ground for integrating the YooniK technology over the summer of 2019 in field trials with a trusted core of world-renowned innovation hospitality partners and disrupting the market with a world-premiere roll-out to operational scenarios in thousands of rooms by the end of 2019. Don’t you want to check into a YooniK hotel already?
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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2790-250 LISBOA
Portugal
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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