Advantages of Installing Smart Locks in Your Home

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Smart Locks

Smart locks are all about convenience. Carrying these metal keys in your bag or back pocket is one extra thing to worry about. And with all the bells and whistles of modern technology, soon, there will be no reason to, unless you deliberately want to keep it that way. Indeed, smart locks offer many advantages when compared to their analog counterparts, starting with #1:

1. Convenience

Convenience tops the list. Nowadays, there is an app for everything, so why wouldn’t the same principles apply to how you enter your home? In other words, as long as the lock is connected to the internet, you’ll be able to control it from anywhere. How many times has it happened to you that you forgot to lock the door? With smart locks, physically heading back to check is no longer needed – the smart lock will alert you of the situation by sending you a notification through the app.

2. Guest access

If you’re not physically there to welcome your guests and handing over the key beforehand is not an option, what do you do? Install the smart locks, of course. Whether you’re expecting friends, relatives, or the parcel delivery service to stop by, being able to unlock your home from anywhere is a true lifesaver. After all, hiding the keys under the doormat or the flower pot is the oldest trick in the book. Surely, the burglars know it as well, wouldn’t you agree?

3. Safety

There’s a reason why smart locks are preferred by those who are after additional security, the kind that’s suitable for protecting one’s business premises, just to name one example. Compared to their traditional analog counterparts, smart locks are much safer. Moreover, these keep everyone who enters the premises on record, and you can retrieve these entries by accessing the database at any time. Your day to day activities won’t be hindered as a result, and the learning curve is far from being steep. In other words, there is much to gain and hardly anything to lose.

4. Alerting

There’s a whole bunch of advanced stuff you can do if you have one of these installed. The most basic thing you can do is configure it to send you an alert whenever someone tries to enter your home. Now let’s say you’ve set these to allow free access to your home from 3 PM to 5 PM, so anyone aware of the timeframe can enter. Not only can you do that, but you can also set an alert if someone enters your home at the time. To make sure it’s the intended person, you can connect the smart locks to your in-house monitoring system to send you an automated transmission whenever someone enters your home.

5. Unlimited styles

Are you worried that installing a smart lock would take away from the overall styling of your home? After all, a modern alien-like look surely does not mesh well with the vintage-looking exterior design, right? Well, there may be another way to get the best of both worlds. In fact, there are so many smart locks to fit every style; you can rest assured that you won’t be running out of options anytime soon. Many of these look plain and normal from the outside, whilst even granting you the option to unlock them with a traditional key. Besides, some may opt against entrusting their security to the digital landscape completely, preferring to have the analog key available as a backup option to gain entry to their home.

Is security a price for convenience?

If you’re granted the ability to unlock your front door with a smartphone, so can anyone else, given the phone somehow lands in the wrong hands. Worse yet, all an intruder needs to enter your home is the correct passcode, so make sure to keep that away from sight.

To answer the initial question, security can be a price for convenience, but only if you’re not careful enough. By being mindful who you entrust your password with, you’ll make sure that only those who you’ve granted access to will be able to set their feet in your home space.

And by protecting your sensitive data with a VPN, you will know that no one can intercept anything you send through your smartphone’s connection. In other words, a VPN places every piece of data on your Android exchanged through a network in an encrypted tunnel, ensuring that only the intended recipient can access it and read it.

Conclusion

Smart locks are gaining in popularity, and they are here to stay. That being said, their users still need to do their due diligence before installing them, just to stay on the safe side.

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