Marquardt GmbH

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Simplified logistics for car rental and car sharing companies: The mobile phone key opens the car and ignites the engine. Permissions can be transmitted digitally worldwide to the mobile phone of customers.

The mobile phone as car key

The Marquardt Group is worldwide leader in the production of electromechanical and electronic switches and switching boards for vehicles, power tools, household appliances and other industrial fields of application. The family-owned enterprise has its headquarters in Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany, and operates production facilites in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. In the fiscal year 2011 Marquardt reached a turnover of over € 600 million, with an employee count of more than 6000 people.

Key success factor for growth of the enterprise is innovation. A substantial field of business are complex control panels and driver authentication systems for the automotive industry.

Together with baimos technologies, Marquardt develops BlueID Drive, the digital vehicle access and driver authentication system of the future. BlueID drive makes conventional car keys obsolete, the mobile phone becomes the car key. This interconnectedness of mobile phone and car enables new possibilites. Operators of rental car and corporate fleets can send car keys digitally to customers. Vehicle data like gas fill level and mileage for billing can be transmitted digitally. Also transmission of GPS position of the vehicle has been realized.

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Dr. Harald Marquardt
Chairman of the Board
Marquardt GmbH

BlueID Drive is the next step in the interconnectedness of vehicle information systems. For drivers, ticketing and transmission of vehicle information like gas fill level and tire pressure are comfort features. When managing rental cars and corporate fleets, these features can make significant cost savings possible.