Re: biometric locksets -- experience?

["Dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all for replies.  Sounds like I better let this stuff mature
before plopping money into it.  Though it also sounds like not many folks
have actually tried these devices yet.  Obviously one would still probably
have to carry a key for those times when arriving home one found the
batteries had given up the ghost, so it would have just been a matter of
convienience when loaded down with packages to not have to fish around for
one key of many on (in my case) three different keychains.  There's work
keys and house keys and a couple of cars worth of keys and motorcycle keys
and church keys and various padlocks and luggage and, and, and --- suffice
it to say that a grab into the pockey seldom brings up the right ring, let
alone the right key.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: biometric locksets -- experience?


> Pardon if too far off the newsgroup focus, but I thought folks here might
> be most likely to have experience with these items.
>
> Smarthome has been sending catalogs with fingerprint reading locksets and
> deadbolts.  Anyone have any experience with these?  I'm wondering how good
> their discrimination is -- do they always read a valid fingerprint and
> always reject an invalid one?  Also wondering about the battery life --
> any experience as to how often the batteries have to be changed?  Finally,
> how about the locksets and deadbolts themselves?  Are they good quality
> hardware?
>
> Any experience, hearsay, whatever that anyone can offer will be
> appreciated.
>
> Dennis M