I have been researching various lock solutions for exterior doors. The motivating factors are to make it easy for the right people to get in even when their hands may be partially full and be ADA compliant and require less than perfect dexterity.

Anyone who has followed my musings, knows that fingerprint readers are not for everyone. NPR’s Scott Simon gave an essay on the subject. Some of my family suffer from “light fingerprints” – which is estimated to be a problem for about 2% of the population. So, for the moment, a biometric fingerprint reader integrated into the locks was out of the question.

I will continue my search – looking at proximity readers, iButtons, and the sort. In the end, odds are high I will end up with your plain and basic keys.

Still, there was some humor in the research process. An Australian website selling home and office security had the included graphic on the home page of their online presence. I guess the Aussies know something about “security”.