There are numerous locks available for consumers to include biometrics, electronic, physical, and cable locks with some providing additional features like video with motion and object detection. Biometrics are the most popular these days due to convenience and it uses finger scanning, facial scanning, voice recognitions, and iris scanning. However, biometric locks rarely use biometrics alone and usually requires other keys like a RFID card or a pin as well because the technology isn’t perfect. These locks require you to register your biological data through a scanner and save it.
Let’s take a look at all the different biometric locks. Also, before you decide to get one, make sure your door fits them since some doors aren’t suitable for biometric locks.
Let’s take a look at fingerprint based locks first. These locks is the most popular one due to low cost and ease of use. Fingerprint based biometric locks scans your fingerprints and converts it into a data that is saved into a small chip. After saving, you simply use your finger again to unlock. The software will run live fingerprints to the saved data and if it matches, it unlocks. Most will come with a pin pad and or card as well for dual authentication. Of course you can still use regular key as well.
Then we have facial scanner locks which depends on camera quality. It will analyze nodal points of the face like your nose, cheekbones, jawline, eye sockets and store it and match it the same way a finger print would. This type of locks also provides live stream and video recording capabilities as well since it already has the camera. Most of them are multifunctional and come with numerous functions to include audio chat function and object/motion detection for packages or guests. These types of locks are probably the best in terms of benefits for the cost. When it comes to home and small businesses, this is probably the best choice due to motion detection and video recording.
Next we have Iris based locks, which aren’t popular due to their high cost and difficulty with installation. These locks use different colors of the eyes and their unique patterns to identify individuals and the camera has to be set at the eye level. The patterns in your irises are unique and impossible to replicate, meaning it’s safer than fingerprints, facial, and voice recognition when it comes to authentication. This is something you would use at a higher security areas. This type of locks are mostly used for big businesses and aren’t really practical for small businesses or home use.
Lastly we have voice recognition, where you can either say a certain phrase or password. It will record your unique tone, pitch, and frequency. All these locks should come with remote access with a mobile app and provide date/time stamps for entries. Biometric locks are useful due to its speed and convenience and the data keeping is especially useful for business owners. This also reduces the number of keys that business owners need to hand out, making it scalable while providing the flexibility to change certain things if needed.
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