 Hello everyone and thanks for joining, my name is Keith Walters and today we will be discussing near field communication enabled smartphones and key fobs and how they can provide convenient interactions between drivers and NFC quit vehicles for access control and driver settings. Today conventional vehicles have significant impacts on the natural environment and human well-being. This includes environmental pollution by carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, excessive fossil fuel consumption and millions of man hours of lost productivity wasted waiting in traffic jams. One potential solution to this is ride and car sharing. Ride sharing is the use of a single vehicle to transport multiple people to a common location. By maximizing vehicle occupancy you can reduce congestion, emissions and fuel consumption. Additionally, business models such as business to consumer or person to person transportation can be realized for people as well as product delivery. Impediment for efficient ride or car sharing is the current need to distribute a physical key or fob to allow customers access to the vehicle. With an NFC enabled vehicle your smartphone can now function as the key with credentials being distributed electronically via a cloud connected app. This allows for easy key dissemination at the start of a contract as well as a higher level of security by leveraging integrated smartphone biometric verification such as fingerprint readers or face ID. Also should your phone ever be lost or stolen the key can be revoked to provide a much higher level of theft deterrence. The Car Connectivity Consortium is an international organization founded by Qualcomm to promote a common standard for using NFC enabled smartphones for car access and engine start. This consortium standardizes secure key generation and distribution as well as phone to vehicle interactions. Standardization of these systems provides significant benefits to car OEMs by ensuring that their vehicles will work with any handset and providing after sale marketing data that can be leveraged to drive the next generation of vehicle development. Handset manufacturers providing a common infrastructure that can be leveraged for smart home and other transportation applications. Rental car companies for consumer convenience for rental car management and rental agreement modifications. Car sharing providers for key distribution vehicle allocation and new business opportunities such as package delivery. And finally fleet management for commercial and B2B applications to monitor asset location and maintenance issues. Next we'd like to show our NFC car access demonstration for both the vehicle door handle and center console. The door handle is responsible for the car access function while the center console is responsible for user identification, driver preferences, and engine immobilization. Additionally new vehicles will also offer key wireless charging in the center console where the NFC reader can protect contactless payment cards from damage by the chi transmitter. Hi my name is Keith Walters I am the marketing manager for Automotive and with a particular focus on RFID we're here at CES playing to kind of show ST's automotive solutions with regards to car access as well as wireless charging. So one of the bigger drivers for the industry for doing NFC for car access is going to be the car connectivity consortium. And so we've been working with that group and we're trying to enable car access solutions in order to gain access to your vehicle with RFID. So we do have a demo where we have a NFC reader that's based in a door handle format and so what you can do is you can use your cell phone to gain access to your vehicle. So when you tap your cell phone to the car handle, it will actually enable that it will identify you correctly and then even your center console will have another reader as well. So when you tap that, move your phone to the center console, it will also pull up all your preferred settings as far as temperature, favorite radio stations, your seat position, things like that. Another application for NFC is in chi wireless charging. So if you have an RFID card and you want to, if you put that onto a chi transmitter you will actually damage your card. So what we do is we incorporate an NFC reader built into the chi wireless charger that will actually access the safety interlock to prevent you from damaging your card. So once you remove the card from the chi charger, you can put your cell phone on there as well and then it will charge the phone accordingly. So if you have any additional questions, please feel free to look at our website www.st.com and just keep us in mind when you're looking at RFID solutions. Thank you. In summary, beyond just access control, NFC can be used for payment card protection, easy configuration of driver settings, in car payment for electric vehicle charging, and verification of consumables and easy reordering of replacement parts. All of these applications and more can be made possible by automotive near field communications. Thank you very much for your time and enjoy the rest of the show.