Tag Archives: lock

Face Recognition Door Lock makes checking into work a snap

Face recognition versus punch cards.  I wonder which one I would choose.  The former, duh!  The Face Recognition Door Lock was designed with purpose to keep track of company employees coming and leaving the job place.

It “features dual cameras (creating a 3D image that prevents false matches using a simple 2D photograph) , night vision, a 3.5 inch TFT display screen, touch keypad, USB and Ethernet port for TCP/IP connections, the ability to register up to 500 faces, and a verification process that supposedly takes less than a second.”  With the ability to store up to 150,000 attendance records of employees, I better start seeing this implemented in companies across the country.  Those damn punch cards never work right.  Here’s hoping facial recognition does.

[Via Gizmodo]

Secure your home with a ‘secret knock’

DYIer Steve Hoefer has created quite an interesting device.  Upon tapping a correct sequence and rhythm on a door this Arduino board-based device will unlock a dead-bolted door.  After artfully smushing together a microcontroller, a piezoelectric speaker, a gear reduction motor, and some PVC pipe Hoefer posted his dramatic results in the video above.  Neat, huh?

[Via Engadget]