New August Smart Lock for Homes

     The new August Smart Lock is a lock designed with not only smart capabilities but with safety in mind as well. This era of technology has quickly put a damper on what we used to consider safe in this day and age. People are now able to create keys that unlock doors and even snap pictures of your key simply to have a copy made. Regardless one thing is for certain we are all becoming more and more comfortable with smart apps and controlling our lives with these apps. August has taken that idea and put it into effect with a new smart lock that is not so easily penetrable.

A lock that fits on any common deadbolt and eliminates the use for keys. That's what we see here and this lock will remained locked until the user unlocks it with their smart phone. We are constantly losing things as a society and one of those main things are our keys. This lock looks to put an end to that. With bluetooth technology this lock pairs with your smartphone currently only available on iPhones and Android and allows you to control when your door locks and unlocks, allowing you to customize and calibrate your settings to meet your preferences.


     There is the problem however of your smart phone dying, but August has though of an answer to that in that there will be a key that you could have with you to unlock the smart lock or if you were to borrow a friends phone, download the app and insert your password you could unlock it in this manner. This does however mean that this lock is not as safe as we thought. With the ability to simply steal someones password you could easily enter there house, this could be beneficial as you could allow multiple people to have a key to the house without having to get 10 keys made to the house. At the same time however that password could be intercepted or one of the phones lost with the app on it. However, this could apply in the same way to having multiple sets of keys as they can be easily lost and found by someone else and used.
     The August smart lock does however let you reset your password to keep people guessing so if a phone is lost or password is given out you can quickly change your information to keep your home secure. This is obviously preferred over replacing your deadbolt because someone else may have the key.

     The system still has some minor bugs that are being worked out, but they are only on the app side of things and not problems with the lock itself. Things like the app not working, crashing or not unlocking the door. As these locks are currently on the shelves already in Apple stores though we are sure that they will deal with these bugs extremely soon if not already.
     The system is extremely easy to install as all you need is the august smart lock, screwdriver and other pieces that are bundled with the smart lock. You simply take off your old deadbolt and replace it with this. The smart lock also will continue to run if the electricity goes out or WiFi disconnects as the device does not need the WiFi only bluetooth and you always have the key to manually open the lock. As their have been many attempts at creating smart locks from number codes, to finger prints this is the easiest as it's on your phone like everything else and will even unlock the door automatically when you are near the handle and lock once again when you leave. This is not simply a better lock, it is a smart lock.
     With technology on the rise it is important to not only keep ourselves up with the times, but our security as well and this lock looks to improve that for all.

Sources: August.com