Unlock your house via the Internet
THE CEDIA EXPO in Denver has been wowed by some cunning gear designed by Schlage which makes door locks that can be wirelessly set or opened via the Internet, from a mobile phone or a computer.
Each of the battery-operated locks have keypads that are locked and unlocked with 4-digit access codes. Users who forget to lock a door and want to enter their code remotely can hop onto a Web portal or use software added to their mobile phones.
Schlage says the wireless signals sent to the locks are encrypted. Kit for the lock, which includes the lock and the wireless bridge to communicate with it will set you back $299. There's a $13 monthly fee to use the applications that let the locks be controlled remotely.
The back up device is still a set of metal keys which is how it has been done for more than 4,000 years. ยต
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What could possibly go wrong?
Instead of replacing the tried-and-true key locks with a keypad or RFID (as has been attempted several times in the last few years), this augments the existing method by providing a fallback system in case of occasional absent-mindedness / paranoia.

So long as it's secure, of course....
...I would choose to put a clause in the policy, stating that no payment will be made if the house is fitted with such a device.

Given security issues of the day, the actuaries would agree with me.

Oliver.
I'd like to see that - especially the metal key.

2nd ? WHO is going to pay $150 a YEAR to unlock their doors?
Would not work anyway. Most Internet service providers (ISP), in particular in the USA, prohibit all services on your home computer (and other devices) either by terms or technical means (blocking). Besides the mentioned security concerns, which have to be addressed anyway, innovations like this one have no chance until we get the ISPs fixed.
$13/month to know when your doors were opened? Or just in case you forgot and/or lose your key? This sounds like an idiot tax to me. Maybe $300 would be reasonable for the lock/router system IF I didn't also have to pay them a monthly tax just to use their lock.
First off, I have cycled manually through 4 digit bycycle locks before, it only takes ~30 minutes.

One could easily buy a Gumstix computer ($130), slap linux on it and write a uber small python web server (free) to activate a cheap linear motor from Radio Shack. Power it up with two 4 volt DC lines, monthly cost... almost ZERO




errrrrrrrrrrrm *ahemmm, the egyptians had wooden locks 4000 years ago, guess what tom, surprise surprise, they used WOODEN keys :O)

p.s. 'there are no experts any more, there is just google' try it sometime tom O_o
its encrypted.

win.
That'll be fun; you're on the train or bus home, and think you'll try out that new remote door you have - cue you then frantically typing away at your other home control devices, turning the telly on, closing / opening the curtains, switching lights on and off so it looks like you're actually at home & not in transit with a collective of mad gimmicks while your front door is open to the world.

What was that key combo again; wait I'll check in this folder I named 'passwords' so I can easily find them all in the one place.