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Real estate agents use smartphones to open homes
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Kim Waters holds in her right hand the older ActiveKey infrared transceiver that opened lockboxes on properties. It is being replaced by the new, much smaller IR fob that plugs into a smartphone — the white dongle and dark phone in her left hand. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Area real estate agents have been using a new technology to open houses. Several agents at Norton North Georgia Real Estate have been using the Supra eKey app on their smartphones to open lockboxes that contain house keys. While Norton agents have used cellular radio transceivers for approximately 10 years, the advent of the smartphone app and accompanying key fob have made the process more convenient, agent Kim Waters said.