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Apple-Supported Aliro 1.0 Smart Lock Standard Officially Released

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The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes Apple, today released the Aliro 1.0 specification. Aliro is a new standard aimed at improving the way that smart door locks work with smartphones and wearables.

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Aliro supports interoperability between mobile devices, wearables, and access control readers, so smart locks can work with any smartphone or wearable device without the need for a dedicated app. It is aimed at improving smart locks for the home, but also for corporate offices, universities, and hotels.

Apple, Google, and Samsung support Aliro, and Aliro-enabled locks will be able to be added to wallet apps on iPhone and Android devices. Major smart home companies that produce smart locks have also signed on to support Aliro. The Alliance says that Apple, Allegion, Aqara, Google, HID, Kastle, Kwikset, Last Lock, Nordic Semiconductor, Nuki Home Solutions, NXP Semiconductors, Qorvo, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics will be among the first to achieve Aliro 1.0 certification.

With Aliro, more smart locks should support Apple Home Key for hands-free unlocking with NFC and UWB.

The Aliro 1.0 specification includes a framework for using asymmetric cryptography for secure interactions between user devices and readers, without sacrificing user privacy. It supports multiple communication methods, including NFC, Bluetooth LE, and ultra wideband (UWB).

Aliro will be updated over time to meet new market and ecosystem requirements. Features like secure key sharing will come in the future.

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kotaKat
7 months ago
Which standards does my lock need again? Wi-Fi? Zigbee? Matter? Z-Wave? Thread? NFC? UWB? BT LE? BBQ? BBBQ? (The extra B stands for BYOBB.)



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Jamie0003
7 months ago
Umm…why isn’t this part of matter? You know, the smart home standard that everything else already supports?
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Mac Fly (film)
7 months ago
$20 to $50. Push buttons. We have ours ten years on our door. The standard it uses it called physics.



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Keymaster
7 months ago

Umm…why isn’t this part of matter? You know, the smart home standard that everything else already supports?
Matter is more of a transport standard, not an interface for control of items. Think of it as a parallel wifi network (that's how I do anyways) that connects them together. This is about having a uniform control system that's easier for everyone to implement, so that all the locks can be controlled from any phone app that implements the standard. It's very useful, especially for Apple as several locks don't support HomeKit right now but have their own setup...we'd get access to all of those locks in the Home app (where right now they may use their own app or maybe even not have one for the iPhone).

We just started adding electronic locks to our home, and it's a bit iffy finding ones that work well and take advantage of what HomeKit can supply. I didn't get ones that allow the door to unlock just by walking up to it, those were just coming out, but we can tap on the locks to unlock which is pretty nice. There are a couple I think I may have gone for but they didn't support HomeKit at all so they weren't an option...in the future Aliro should make that go away for companies that join it (which doesn't include Schlage or Yale so far, they don't support HomeKit well either).
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turbineseaplane
7 months ago
Best wishes to all who install this stuff.

Given the mish mash of support on all my other smart stuff over the years, I'm not at all interested in anything like this due to support concerns over the long term.
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ignatius345
7 months ago
Maybe I’m not checking into the right tier or chain of hotels, but I’d love to get a room key on my phone instead of those janky cards I always have to keep track of.
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