Wyze’s new palm-scanning door lock has a second, backup battery
Wyze announced its first smart door lock which can be opened by simply hovering your hand open on it. The Wyze Palm Lock is launched today for $ 129.98, which makes it more affordable than intelligent bars of similar palm trees, including the Philips Smart Impartial Backing of $ 359.99 which launched last year. But your palm is not the only way to unlock it. If it is winter deaths and you wear gloves, the palm lock can also be opened using a physical key, hitting a code or using the Wyze mobile application.
It is not as cheap as the Wyze locking bolt at $ 80 of Wyze that we called the “best intelligent budget locking” in our purchasing guide, but the palm lock includes more features. The battery life is evaluated up to six months thanks to the use of a low -power millimeter wave radar that only wakes the lock when a person is detected nearby. Its main battery can be removed so that you can recharge it inside, while a smaller secondary battery will keep the lock powered up to two weeks. If the two batteries die, an external power source can be temporarily connected to a USB-C port allowing you to unlock using an access code.
The recognition of the palm vein has proven to be a safer and precise method of biometric safety than fingerprint readers, and simply waving your hand on an infrared sensor requires less precision than scaning a fingerprint. The Wyze palm lock can store palm vein identifiers for up to 50 users and generate up to 50 unique entry codes giving access to people whose palms have not been recorded.
Wyze palm locking is connected Wi-Fi, so it can be locked and unlocked wherever your phone has internet access or using voice commands via smart assistants like Alexa from Amazon or Google Assistant. For more security, the lock incorporates a gyroscope that detects the angle and the movements of the door. It can be set to automatically lock the door when it feels that it has been closed all along, or start at audible chirping after a defined period of time if it detects the door that has been opened.
