The mainstay of security is the lock and key for thousands of years, but companies are emerging new apps by introducing them into the digital era, and allowing people to share keys digitally and achieve keyless access to homes.
Key Me, an app for the iPhone, aims to modernize itself as the way spare keys are stored, and how copies are shared with family and friends. With Key Me, home owners can take pictures of their keys, which the app converts into instructions that a locksmith can trail to reproduce the key.
“When you get locked out, instead of waiting it for a few hours and operating cost which is hundreds of dollars for a locksmith, you can leave to your local mom and crack shop and drag up instructions for them to make a duplicate of your key,” said Greg Marsh, chief executive officer of Key Me, based in New York.
Digital keys can also be communal with others, such as a new-fangled roommate or out-of-town guest. The app, available in the United States is at no cost, but instructions for replicating the key cost $9.99 and duplicating of keys can also be ordered for up to $7.
Some Other apps that digital key can unlock doors with the use of smart phone.
Lockitron, for iPhone and Android, and the apps Kevo and August for the iPhone, can be coupled with digital devices that are emotionally involved to accessible locks or replace locks to offer keyless entrance, and permit home owners to tenuously control with the help of remote that who can enter their homes.
“Just say you have a dog-walker, or perhaps your parents are in city for the weekend. You can make available them with provisional way in to your home through the app,” said Cameron Robertson, co-founder of Apigy, creators of the Lockitron, based in Mountain View, California.
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