A smart digital door lock is an important part of a truly smart, connected home. Digital locks can make your home highly secure in addition to making entering and exiting your premises very convenient.
Here are the top 10 advantages of using Smart Digital Door Locks for homes.
1. Keyless Entry
Digital door locks provide the convenience of opening doors using fingerprints, passcodes and mobile apps. There is no need to carry bulky keychains. With your own personal code, you can enter your home with just a few simple pushes of a button, and lock it with just one. No more losing keys. No more lockouts. No more hiding keys under the mat. Some digital door locks can also be activated using voice commands.
2. Remote Locking/Unlocking
Never worry about forgetting to lock your door again. Away from home and not sure your doors are locked? A digital door lock allows you to secure your doors from miles away. Need to let your maid in? A digital door lock can do that too. Say goodbye to the locked out and lost house key emergencies.
3. Smart Triggers
You can create smart triggers from door locks that can be used to activate smart home devices like lights, cameras, alarms and other smart devices. Services like Amazon Alexa, Apple Home Kit, Google Assistant, and If This Then That (IFTTT) can also be integrated. For example, you can pair your lock with a video doorbell, so you can see who is at the door before you unlock it or have an indoor security camera begin recording when a door is unlocked.
4. Privilege Sharing
Assign special privileges to friends, family members, or maintenance staff. You can monitor who is entering and leaving your home while you’re away. Assign onetime user codes to allow visitors in when you are not home. You can also create time-based digital codes that will work only during a specific time intervals.
5. Receive alert notifications
You can get real-time notifications when doors are opened or closed. This helps keep track of all the activities in your home. You can also configure to get notifications if the doors are idle beyond a specific time. This can be used to monitor children coming back from schools or the maid.
6. Door Access Log
Smart locks offer activity logs so you can go back in time to see who has entered or exited your home, as well as the activity timeline. You can also configure logs to be automatically sent to your email address, as needed.
7. Smart Etiquette
Elegant-looking digital door locks can be easily installed in any door frame with features like ‘silent unlock’ using which you can adjust the volume or mute the door opening sound (so that the children or family aren’t disturbed when you’re entering home late night).
8. Video Door Phone
Smart digital door locks can be integrated with video door phones. When a visitor presses the video doorbell, an app notification will be sent. You can then view and talk with the visitors, and open the door lock from your mobile app. The same works with an indoor camera. You can first view the visitors and then unlock the door, ensuring security.
9. Smart Modes
Smart locks are equipped with features like voice activation, geofencing, and auto-locking features. With voice activation, locking and unlocking doors is easy. Simply command ‘unlock the front door’, and the lock will unlock. With geofencing, you can automatically lock your door. You’ll never have to worry if you locked up before you left the house. Just use the mobile app to set up a perimeter around your house, and use your phone’s location services to pinpoint your exact location. When you leave the perimeter, you can have the lock automatically engage behind you. Similarly, an auto-lock feature will have the lock automatically engage after it has been unlocked for a specific period of time.
10. Alarms
Smart digital door locks will keep out most burglars, but what if they try to break it with a hammer. A built-in loud alarm will sound as soon as it is attacked, letting everyone know and scaring the burglar away.
Digital door locks is one of the best investments for your home security systems. Reach us out to get the best suited digital door lock models for your homes.
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