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What Electronic Door Lock Would You Buy?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-are-my-sliding-doors dept.

zentigger asks: "I work for an ISP that supports internet in several dozen remote areas. Our POPs are typically fairly small shed-like structures, with a couple racks of equipment. For the most part, we can manage this stuff in-band, but frequently we need to have a local agent physically access the equipment for some minor maintenance work or adjustments. As time goes on, the shuffle of keys is becoming farcical and expensive. What we need is an electronic lock of some sort that can be reprogrammed remotely (preferably from a remote console via serial or directly via ethernet) that will stand up to extreme weather. Google certainly turns up lots of glossy brochures — although I don't see how they can -all- be 'The heaviest duty lock you can buy!' Does anyone have good experiences with any particular products or perhaps other means of dealing with the key shuffle?"

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  1. Best lock for the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here is my preferred electrical door lock in action. Never had a problem with a burglar yet.

  2. Only a door lock? by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a complete electronic defense system for my home and I am currently upgrading the AI. It was slow going at first, the AI kept requesting to be given a name. Eventually i gave in and called it Skynet and things have been going quite well, although the Asimo I hooked up to it does like to chase me round the house a lot trying to taser me. I am going to ask one of my mates at the NSA if one of their global domination scenarios can connect and defeat it as a final acceptance test. Should be cool.

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    1. Re:Only a door lock? by UnderDark · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm sorry, but I can't do that Dave.

  3. Re:Don't give out keys at all. by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since your budget is down a bit this quarter, you should just hire an H1-B immigrant to live in your POP shed 24/7 with a cellphone, a small ration of ethnic food, and a DVD of Little Superstar to keep his spirits up.

  4. Careful with upgrades... by Bazman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Our recently refurbed admin building ("Hey! When are we plebs going to get our leaky windows replaced??") had its grand opening the other day, complete with University bigwigs and minor royalty. The day before it seems someone decided to upgrade the security system firmware.

    When they did this, there was nobody inside. And they locked themselves out. They figured if they set the fire alarm off then the override would fling the doors open. But it didn't. They had to get someone in to smash through the security door to a) get inside and b) stop the fire alarm.

    I imagine all the mess was cleaned up before the princess arrived.