

The concept is simple and clever: once a key is scanned, it can be replicated at any of their machines, anywhere, assuming the specific key profile is locally available.
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The machines have a fingerprint reader that can link your biometrics to key registration to assure proper identification to retrieve the keys. Keys can either be immediately produced at the kiosk or they are cut at the KeyMe office and then sent through the mail, based upon the uploaded information. Their unique concept is not favored by locksmiths, understandably, and it incorporates some features that cannot be realistically offered by the traditional lock shop or normal key machines. He told me when I visited his facility in Manhattan that they have made millions of keys each year and are growing rapidly. It was a simple idea: allow a consumer to scan keys into the system at the kiosk or on their smartphone for later retrieval with a fingerprint or username and password at any machine, anywhere in the country. They can produce keys, vehicle key fobs, and access control tags on-demand at a reasonable price. That enterprise now has more than fifteen hundred automated kiosks in drug stores and supermarkets throughout the United States.

So Marsh conceived of the idea that ultimately resulted in a company called KeyMe. She had no choice but to call a locksmith who charged her a lot of money to get in. Five years ago his girlfriend could not find her key and was locked out of her apartment in New York at 2:00 A.M.
