Have a ever gone through a “Know your customer (KYC)” process and wondered 😯 why – in today’s digital era – it takes a customer service agent up to 20 minutes ❗ to verify your identity? Showing your ID, waving your hand over it and so on?
How about car-sharing? In many European cities you can rent cars for short trips – cheaper than a taxi and more flexible than a typical rental car that you need to rent for at least one day. However, the registration process is again a very time-consuming and annoying task you need to do…and you need to repeat this identification process for every single car-sharing company. In Germany you have up to 10 different car-sharing companies in one city, each ⁉ requiring a proprietary identification process.
Luckily there will an end to that soon: with eIDAS 2.0 the European Eunion has made a great step towards very simple and convenient identity management. Out of the 450 Million EU citizens around 250 Million already have an eID that offers the possibility to verify the identity of the card holder. What’s missing is one SaaS platform that offers the identification and access management for a magnitude of services like banks, parcel lockers or car-sharing vehicles.
With WhatsKey Inc. this is about to change! We combine the convenience of the biometric recognition system your smartphone offers with next level identification – for the fastest and safest user experience.
Next time renting a car-sharing vehicle will take less than a minute… 🚗 and KYC will be a relic of the past.
Stay tuned!
Bringing the Identity Provider (IDP) Concept to the Physical World
David
November 20, 2024
