The system, shown off by Volvo at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is a development of the brand’s existing telematics app – Volvo On Call. This already allows, among other things, remotely switching on the car’s heating or air conditioning and even checking fuel levels, all through a mobile phone.
Volvo has trialled its ‘Roam Delivery’ service with 100 people, and 86 of them agreed that the service saved them time. Some 92 concluded that deliveries to the car are more convenient than waiting around at home for the parcel van.
According to Volvo Car Group CIO Klas Bendrik, more innovations are likely to come out of digital keys technology.
“It’s all about finding solutions that are intuitive and easy to use and that create benefits in the everyday lives of our customers,” he says.
“The important thing is to make these complex and advanced systems easy to understand for everyone, even behind the wheel. Deliveries direct to the car are just one first example of that”, Bendrik adds.
