Unlock a door with a tap on your Apple watch
Marc Jensen, James Squires, and Shawn Roske over Make have posted great instructions on making an Apple watch door unlocker using RFduino, which can unlock your front door with just a tap on an app.
Apple watch door unlocker
We started this project to help solve a real-world problem: prevent our employees from being locked out of our office. Our security system automatically locks the doors outside of normal business hours. If someone steps out of the office without their security card or keyfob, they’re locked out. When this happens, people use their phone to call or email people at the office to let them back in. This showed us that people may forget their security card — but they don’t forget their phone. With this insight, we set out to create an mobile app that would serve as a virtual security card. The Apple Watch would make this even more convenient, and since Apple Watch apps are extensions of iPhone apps, we created a bundle that includes both apps.
Check out the demo below: