Three circled areas showing the multipoint door lock parts of my back door.Ī multipoint door lock is one of the more secure types of lock, and they’re now fairly standard in the UK and are growing in popularity in other countries too. When you want to lock the door, you must pull the door handle upwards to engage these levers and locks: Multipoint door locksĪ multipoint door lock has a lot more parts to it (literally) than a standard deadbolt lock: they have a range of levers and locks running up the side of the door. a single-cylinder deadbolt smart lock just needs to turn the single cylinder, whereas a multipoint door lock is more involved because various levers and latches need to be moved up/down before the lock cylinder can be unlocked. Obviously the way that a smart lock unlocks the door will vary depending on the type of lock you have, i.e. This is called ‘auto-unlock’ and it’s a really convenient feature. Once you’re right by your front door, the smart lock and the phone app will ‘agree’ this fact, and unlock the door for you. When you then get to within 10m/33ft, it’ll start going into ‘active’ mode and trying to talk to your smart lock using Bluetooth and WiFi (which are shorter range technologies, and hence can be used to track that you’re walking towards your front door).

This means that when you go into the ‘neighborhood zone’ at 100m/328ft, your smart lock’s phone app will start doing more detection on your exact location. Illustration from Google Maps about how two virtual boundaries – geofences – can be used.

Smart lock wifi vs bluetooth