Bluetooth Keyless Entry System

A new product has recently surfaced that brings together Bluetooth wireless technology with an electric strike to enable bluetooth access control solutions.

The Phantom Smart Home Hands-free Keyless Home Entry uses any Bluetooth-capable cell phone as a key to unlock your door automatically. The Keyless Home Entry detects and authenticates your phone as you approach without having to take it out or press a button.

Simple, safe, and secure, the Hands-free Keyless Home Entry provides a new level of convenience. You no longer have to trouble with keys. The Keyless Home Entry is perfect for coming and going in a hurry or with your hands full.

Our new battery powered electric strike is due to arrive this week (we believe) and while it does not have this bluetooth functionality it is fundamentally more secure. The new arrival is being updated next year to include an RFID remote release switch.

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RT Wave Elevator Surveillance System by Draka

Draka Elevator Products, a revolutionary modern company specializing in all things elevator recently introduced this 'first-of-its-kind' wireless elevator surveillance system.

Designed to work at distances up to 200 floors (far exceeding previous iterations), this unique product allows discerning building owners, concerned about the security of their elevators to have 'an eye in the sky' so to speak.

Installation is straightforward although I suggest an experience elevator technician be called in to install them to minimize difficulties.

Now you can enjoy total protection including your elevators. In this age of increasing crime due to a floundering economy and high unemployment, building managers are often seeking quality products that provide top notch security for competitive prices.

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Invue Security Products

Invue Security Products make specialty products tailored to the retail industry. Many of their products are designed to minimize potential losses from shoplifters.

Pictured here are two versions of their unique hook lock.

This forward thinking company, also produce some very unique security stands designed to display products like cellphones, tablets etc while minimizing the "ugly" factor. Their unique stands come in alarmed functionality too but primarily their sleek designs manage to display a products features while minimizing the security factor.

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Google Search Algorithm Loophole Exploited

David Segal, a reporter for The New York Times recently wrote an article of interest about a locksmith in Seattle WA who is suffering a similar affliction to many other locksmiths across America.

Online Lead Generation Services have discovered a loophole in Google's local search algorithm and they are exploiting it as a result. This has led to a huge distortion in the search results that a user might find, when searching for their service of choice.

Lead Generation services are simply rehashing the ages old exploitation that Yellow Pages and other search directories, suffered from for many decades prior to Google.

'Doug Pierce of Digital Due Diligence, an Internet research firm based in Brooklyn, was asked to look into it. Mr. Pierce found that lead gen sites use some interesting gimmicks to charm and hoodwink Google’s algorithm. Some basically hijack the local addresses of other entities in or near the middle of town.

Other sites, Mr. Pierce found, are just tricked out for maximum Google visibility. In particular, lead gen sites are good at spreading their name, address and phone number — NAP, as it’s called in the search business — around the Web, which is apparently a superb way to curry favor with Google Places.'

Mr Segal wrote, 'Lead gen sites dominate Google results for locksmiths in many cities nationwide, and in more than a few towns. And it’s not just locksmiths. Other service industries, like roofing and carpeting, have a similar problem. If Google is the new Yellow Pages, then lead gen sites have perfected the same game that companies in the predigital age played when they started their names with combinations like AAA1 to land atop printed listings.

But because few people search beyond the first page online, snookering Google might be far more effective, especially because many people assume that the company’s algorithm does a bit of consumer-friendly vetting.

A Google spokesperson, Gabriel Stricker, made this statement recently: “We’re aware of the gaming practices happening in the locksmith industry — practices which long predate Google and have affected the Yellow Pages for decades. We’ve implemented several measures to combat this issue, including improving our spam-detection algorithms and working with the locksmith industry to find solutions.”

Mr Segal wrote, "Thousands of people spend all their workdays devising novel ways to fool the world’s most popular search engine. Fighting this tech-savvy horde can’t be easy.

Yet if the example of locksmiths is any indication, the horde has the upper hand in certain service sectors, and it all but owns Google Places."

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Basquill Antique Furniture Cupboard Lock

Many antique furniture pieces are designed with long/tall double doors. Many of these doors are difficult to lock and secure.

Major Manufacturing Inc., a well know specialty manufacturer of locksmith and security products and tools, produce this unique product called a Basquill Lock.

It is designed to install in the normal position, use customizable length rods (locking bars) to secure the door at both top and bottom.

Simple to install and inexpensive, this product can help to maintain the antique piece while securing the cupboard doors easily and effectively.

Price On Application.

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Keyless Ingition Warning

Most of us today drive cars and trucks post 1999.

Many newer cars are arriving with push button ignitions.

We have to remember to switch it off before exiting the car.

Pretty sad, no?

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Introducing The Invincible Meroni UFO....coming soon

Advanced orders are now being taken for this sensational product.

This factory authorised clip runs about 10 minutes, but illustrates the security potential.

How much protection do you want?

Can Schlage Securekey Locks Be Masterkeyed?

Schlage Securekey Locks cannot be masterkeyed.

Likewise, neither can Kwikset Smartkey locks.

In fact, none of the current crop of self-rekeyable products on the market can be masterkeyed.

There is one exception, however.

The fabulous Matrix key system invented by a talented locksmith engineer in Australia, can offer rekeyable attributes (limited) while also being part of a master key system.