Sony is in collaboration with World Innovation Lab, a crowdfundingcampagne started to get feedback on a new project. The so-called Qrio Smart Lock, it should be possible to make doors using a smartphone app to unlock it.
The idea is that people with their smartphone, a locked door can open. A physical key is therefore unnecessary. An app makes contact with the lock and the user can then open the door. The corresponding codes can be exchanged with other persons, writes The Wall Street Journal. It is unclear the extent to which the system is vulnerable to intrusion.
Sony works for the project together with World Innovation Lab. That organization delivers, reportedly, sixty percent of the power required and Sony will then take the remaining part for his account. The first two hundred donors can 11.250 yen a prototype buy, converted approximately 76 euros. The final sale price would be around 15,000 yen, or more than 100 euros.
It is not the first time that Sony is a crowdfundingcampagne is started. In november, it became clear that the Japanese company under a pseudonym-via a crowdfunding platform money collected for a watch of electronic paper. Sony wanted so find out if there is enough interest in the project and the company did not direct his own name to the project to link.
Sony is not the first company that has such a slot develops. For example, the August Smart Lock, and is in the Netherlands the Cd figured out.
