Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MAKE @ Engadget Expand 2014: Noke, A Bluetooth Padlock”.
Hello, my name is David gengler, I’m with views designs and i’m here to introduce you to know key nokia is the world’s first bluetooth. Padlock. No key is a really great replacement for traditional padlocks. If you think about normal padlocks, the technology hasn’t changed for years. You’Ve got keys that get lost.
You have combinations that get forgotten and really be a pain sharing makes it even that much worse. However, we’ve overcome a lot of these limitations with no key. So let’s talk about what it can do. First, take a look at the the simple clean design: we’ve made it without any buttons any different things going on. This is really basic very attractive. So what makes it so unique? Let’S talk about how it works first, so as we go through how no key works so wait for the slides to catch up.
What you do is you simply press down on the shackle noki sends a signal to your smartphone. Your smartphone then verifies it and just like that, it opens up. In fact, it opens up faster than I can even describe it. So we’ll talk about some of the unique features of it. First of all, the versatility where it’s used.
What we found by talking to different people is it’s very, very popular on bicycles, on gates on lockers. You can talk about it on storage units anytime, that you want to be able to lock something up and have easy access. No key gives that to you, so the sharing, i think, is one of the most useful features for no key.
The sharing is very simple. You launch our app you kind of take a look at it here. We’Ve got the app already design. Click on the sharing portion, send it up to the cloud, so we’ve created a whole cloud system to manage this. The cloud then sends back the signal back to the other person’s phone, and then they’ve now got access to no key. What else is convenient? Of course, if you want to get that key back, all you’ve got to do is press a button.
You can pull it right back, so, in addition to that type of functionality, we’ve also added custom sharing. So if you take a look at what we’ve got as a sample up here, let’s say that you want to give somebody access from different times of the day or different days of the week. You can select different custom access.
Maybe you want to give access to your employees, you know from nine to five monday thru friday, or you want to give your gardener access on thursdays. You can do that with no key. It’S really really convenient history.
So if you want to keep track of when the gardener came and went or if you want to keep track of when your children are showing up at school as they’re getting to the bus, stop on time, locking up their bike at different places, really really simple To do it, you open up the history page, you take a look on here and it’s got all their different information. You can sort it based on all you know all the users you can sort it based on the various types of locks and different types of activity. One of the things I think is really unique. So for those of you who have looked at locks – or you know like like dead bolts – they don’t have this feature. Don’T really need this feature and that would be GPS functionality.
So take a look at this works. If i were to know where the lock was unlocked, i simply just press on a button and it pulls up the information as to where that lock was last locked and unlocked so really convenient for delivery. People for people who are doing different type of commercial work, and I want to make sure you keep track of my employees – make sure that thing was open and closed at the right locations. One of the things that be really frustrating, of course, is if the battery died on no key right, so we thought of that.
Let’S talk about how that works. We’Ve created a very high-end battery saving solution when Nokia is not being used. It’S just sitting right here. It uses absolutely zero battery power as soon as I click on the shackle, like I mentioned before, that’s when it wakes up, it looks for your phone and the unlocking happens, and it instantly goes back to sleep. By doing this, the battery lasts a very long time, as I mentioned over a year.
However, what happens if the battery does die? Well, in that case you’re screwed, I’m just teasing. Obviously we thought of that too right, so we’ve got a back-up plan. What you do is you turn no key on its side, open up this little area back here and you take a replacement battery and you touch that replacement battery to the bottom of no key, and that gives it enough power to open it once I’ve got it Open then, i can replace the other battery simply and easily quick clip technology. So the next question people ask all the time is well. Okay, what happens if my smartphone battery dies happens all the time right? So we’ve thought of that too, when you set up no key, what you do is you go into the app and you give it your own 6 to 16 digit code series of short and long presses that allow you to easily open it if your phone’s dead, If you’ve lost your phone or anything like that, so very simple, easy way to get inside no key in any situation encryption. Another question we get asked a lot is well what happens if somebody is standing by there and they’ve got a sniffer and they can. They can figure out the codes we’ve got that covered as well, so basic Bluetooth, 4.0 security. That’S actually pretty impressive, but we’ve gone an added security on top of that, an extra layer of security and what it does in a nutshell: let’s take a look at it. So when i press the shackle it’s sending a standard Bluetooth signal over to no key, then no key sends back a code, nope they’re. Sorry, your phone sends back a code.
No key takes that Cody. It sends another one and if the phone recognizes that as being a valid code, it sends the unlock key and opens it up and that’s a rolling code. So it changes every single time.
It gets you. So, even if somebody could get close they’re, not gon na be able to get inside all right, so weather resistance. This is a really important feature as well.
What we found is people who don’t want to use this outside a lot, so we’ve got four different seals and o-rings in it to keep the water out. It’S also able to maintain operability when the temperatures are cold when temperatures are high, so works great. Any environment really quick to kind of look inside there’s over 30 different parts that make this thing work.
It’S pretty advanced technology, really really great project. We’Ve got a lot of good fun working on it. It’S available now on our website for pre-order for $ 59 at fuse designs com.
It will be available retail in March for sixty nine dollars and, like we always say, with no key, no key, no problem thanks. So much for your time. .