Samsung phones will unlock your door with a tap, or even hands-free | Infinium-tech

Samsung smartphones, starting next year, will be able to unlock smart locks with just a single tap – or not even that, hands-free using UWB. The Tap will instead use NFC to unlock the functionality, as you might have expected.

Samsung users will thus be on par with iPhone owners, who already have the ability to unlock Smart Lock without any hassle. Samsung will support the new Aliro Smart Lock standard and add it to its wallet’s digital home key.

When that happens, tap to unlock and hands-free unlocking becomes a reality, and both of these can work locally between your phone and the lock, without any internet connection. What’s more, you don’t even need to unlock your phone to unlock it.

Of course, hands-free unlocking via UWB will only work if your Samsung phone supports UWB, and the list of those that do is not very large. Basically, book-style foldables for the past few years, with its flagship Galaxy S line featuring + and Ultra models.

Perhaps more phones will add UWB support with the creation of this standard? We will have to wait and see. The Aliro standard is developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the same organization behind the smart home standard Matter. Like Matter, Alero is also being worked on by Apple, Google, Samsung as well as major lock and chip makers. The first specifications of the standard are expected to be released next year, after which Samsung devices will begin supporting it. And next year should also appear the first smart lock with Aliro support.

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