Hi, there. I've been neck-deep in access control systems for about three years now. Here's the important part of the article:

Once your lock is connected to the internet, it opens the door for hackers to raise hell. While many smart locks have multiple layers of security, they’re also collecting data on your comings and goings. Some might see this as a feature. Some might think it’s needless surveillance. Inevitably, connected locks are adding a new layer of complexity to a technology that’s always been relatively simple to use.

Schlage may very well have been in business since the Merrimac and the Monitor. From a technology standpoint, however, they're a startup. So that app you put on your phone to control your lock? It's their first app and effectively their first lock. Yeah - a key will always turn it. But the software that controls it? It's gonna hang, burn cycles, drain your battery, connect poorly, have half a dozen unpatched back doors and be abandoned by the manufacturer eighteen months from now which means your smart lock is no longer smart, it's dumb, but it also takes batteries. Lather, rinse, repeat for Master, Yale and anyone else you want to talk to. What's that? You want it to talk to Nest? Great! Now your home's security is dependent on how well Google integrates one of their purchases into the greater world while also depending on how well what's left of Nest integrates with the middleware your lock manufacturer settled on once the custom interface they had programmed last year ceased to be supported when that developer delivered a quote higher than they wanted to pay.

Remember - the Internet of Things are the fucknuts that released a shit ton of product out into the world with username "admin" and password "12345" and you can't disable admin privileges most of the time. Right now? Right now our access is a Masterlock key vault with an app attached to it. You open it up with your phone and get a physical key out. This reduces the battery life of every phone that runs it by half but it allows us to have the access control of knowing who's coming in and who's going out. Sort of. It gives us slightly more functionality than a simple realtor presscode box and about five times the expense. But then, business physical security always lags way behind home security for the simple reason that when people want to secure a business, they want it secure. So yeah. I can do all this stuff in the commercial realm. The cheapest quote I got was $1100 and the most expensive was $3800. For a $400 lock.

But it'll work.