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New home door locks can be controlled online |
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Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
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DENVER - What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?
At the CEDIA Expo in Denver this week, Ingersoll-Rand Co.'s Schlage unit is showing off door locks that can be wirelessly set or opened via the Internet, from a mobile phone or a computer.
The battery-operated locks have keypads that are locked and unlocked with four-digit access codes (or old-fashioned keys, as a backup). Users who forget to lock a door and want to enter their code remotely can hop onto a web portal or an application added to their mobile phones. These password-protected portals also let people change, activate or disable the codes.
The company says the wireless signals sent to the locks are encrypted.
A Schlage kit that includes the lock and the wireless bridge to communicate with the locks sells for $299, plus there's a $13 monthly fee to use the applications that let the locks be controlled remotely. The system, which Schlage bills as the first of its kind, will be available in late October.
-Catherine Tsai, AP Business Writer.
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