Smart locks are an important part of any smart home. Not only do they give you useful features like the ability to unlock the door with a passcode or remotely with your smartphone, but they’re the ...

Smart locks are an increasingly common sight around neighborhoods. These gadgets bring some modern amenities to your front door, letting you eschew your traditional key to operate your deadbolt with a ...

Smart locks promise relief here and aim to make everyday life more convenient—without compromising security. They open the ...

A smart lock is a connected home device that uses Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to replace traditional keys, letting you lock or unlock your door with a tap on your phone or a quick voice command. Many models ...

A smart lock offers convenience to busy households, allowing you to unlock your door without reaching into your pocket for that elusive key. Many can be unlocked by the proximity of a smartphone or ...

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If you’ve ever struggled to pull out your key from the bottom of your handbag while juggling groceries and kids, worried about how the pet sitter is going to get in while you’re on vacation or rushed ...

Charlotte Pfahl, 68, prefers using an old-school mechanical key to access her New York City apartment. So when her landlord modernized the building and installed a smart lock in 2018, she and several ...

Affordable and easy to use, August takes our number one spot for the best smart lock on the market today. Yale Smart home-centric and feature-packed, Yale takes our number two spot. Schlage ...

You can leave your keys on the kitchen table now. A smart lock promises to notice you arriving, open with a tap, and keep bad actors out with modern encryption. The question nagging at the back of ...

Savannah is a technology journalist in Rochester, Minnesota. Her specialties include gaming, E ink, computer hardware, and smart homes. If her status is away, she can most likely be found paddling ...

The long-delayed smart lock standard Aliro is finally launching. The first specification, which standardizes NFC-based tap-to ...