Philips Builds Its Smart Locks and Safe Boxes Around Who a Household Trusts
Philips brought its smart lock and safe box lineup to an exclusive media event at Boudica Megatower today, introducing Unlocking Quiet Luxury, a campaign that frames home security as a question of who a household trusts with its door and with what it keeps inside.
Home security has long been sold on fear. Brands compete on how many access codes a device can hold and how much force it can survive. Philips starts somewhere simpler. Most households already know the handful of people they would trust with the front door, and with what locked away behind it, and Philips built both product lines around that short list.
The shift reflects how people buy locks. A lock or a safe chosen out of fear is a grudge purchase. One chosen out of pride is an upgrade, closer to how a homeowner picks a fixture or a finish, and Philips is designing for the second kind of buyer. Specifications can be matched or discounted. A house that opens its doors and safes only for the people who belong cannot.
The safe boxes open with a quick-touch fingerprint scan, backed by PIN entry. Additionally, built with fireproof and anti-theft protection, and smart alerts send intrusion and vibration notifications straight to a phone. The lineup covers both home and office, with models suited to household valuables and to workplace use.
The smart locks offer keyless entry through facial recognition, fingerprint, and PIN code.
They lock automatically once the door closes, and users can manage them in real time through a mobile app, allowing them to grant or withdraw access without cutting a new key.
At the event, guests saw the products on lighted pedestals and inside a furnished home simulation staged as a bedroom, closet, and entryway. Furthermore, the setup let media handle the locks and boxes the way a household would, hearing the mechanisms work and testing the biometrics themselves.
Moreover, an interactive segment called “Who’s on the List” ran alongside it. Each media table, given a Philips safe box locked with a code they had not seen. Guests worked the code out from a riddle in the press kit, and also any wrong entry set off the tamper alarm. Tables that ran out of time watched a registered user open the same box with a fingerprint in seconds.
The campaign also takes its name from the idea built on, that a well-kept home is one where everything, from the front door to the safe, opens only for the people it should. Follow along at #AtHomeWithPhilips and #PhilipsSecurity for more information.
