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He started the CES 2024, the consumer technology fair in Las Vegas that usually brings news in televisions and notebooks, but that also shows the interests of the industry in a lot of areas, which in many cases can be summarized as “making things easier for people”. In this case, with the help of two companies: Philips and Lockly.
What is it about? Of go beyond the key to open a door (like the one at home for example). Yes, there are multiple modern and technological options, quite established, that generally appeal to a numerical code, a magnetic card, a fingerprint or the app on the phone as an alternative to the classic key.
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Except for the app, all of them require physical contact between the person trying to get through the door and the lock; Today we no longer pay attention to it, but not so long ago (in a pandemic) that contact was unwanted. So in the middle some alternatives emerged, which we are looking at now and that although we have overcome the coronavirus we can still take advantage of.
In the case of Philips, it is the Philips Wi-Fi Palm Recognition Smart Deadbolt (not exactly a very attractive name) scans our palm to validate our identity (but it doesn’t tell us the future, for now). Without contact with the reader and taking advantage of the fact that the location of the sales in our hand is unique. The Philips lock can identify up to 50 people, offers a keyboard to enter a common code (if we are wearing gloves, we hurt our hand, etc.) and a doorbell that can be heard with a speaker or an app. It also has a proximity sensor on the inside of the door, which opens the lock before you reach for the handle, and locks the door when you close it. It is also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant (to, for example, open the lock remotely to let in someone who does not have the palm of their hand identified). The company says it will begin selling this lock before mid-year, at an international price of $360.
Another company is Lockleywhich introduced the Visage Smart Lock: a lock equipped with a facial recognition system and support for Apple HomeKey and Matter. It works as you would expect: it scans our face and if it recognizes us, it opens the door. It also has, just in case, a fingerprint sensor, a numeric keypad, the ability to assign temporary keys and enable remote access via Wi-Fi. It will be available in the middle of the year at an international price of $349, and is one more step towards leaving behind the conventional lock, which has been with us for millennia.
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Source: Elcomercio
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