Smart Home Technology for delivery? Sure, no more problem, Amazon gives you the tools.

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Almost all of the people use Amazon in the USA, a lot of them are Amazon Prime clients. Even if the prime clients in most cases are getting the delivery pretty fast, sometimes do to the fact that we are busy we can’t stay home and wait for the delivery for the whole day. Not all of us don’t have a neighbor, sometimes even we have them we just simply don’t like them or what is more popular they are same busy as we. How to fix the problem of receiving the package from our favorite Amazon always when we are back home? Nothing simpler than letting the courier get inside. Amazon prepared smart technology to do that. How does the whole system work? We need 3 things to make it possible and safe, this packet is called “Amazon key”:
1. Smart Lock for door
2. Alexa Cloud Cam
3. Your private smartphone
Smart Lock and Alexa Cloud cam cost 250$, but how it all works? The system is very simple. Amazon is sending the notification that courier is in front of your house. Than as normally courier will knock firstly and if you are not at home the application which he will use will let him inside your home to leave the parcel. Here there is the role of the Alexa cloud camera, you will have the ability to watch the person who is leaving your parcel. In case anything will happen Amazon store the video stream from the delivery for free for 24 hours.

Screenshot from the app

So that’s how the whole system works, I hope all of Amazon lovers will be very happy with such solution. Now to be honest, in my personal opinion it’s not the best idea to let any stranger get inside our own home. Probably Amazon won’t be so responsible for what happened when someone walks inside. Secondly, there is a question do you want to trust and let the Amazon literally inside your private home, by giving them access to the cameras and to your doors lock? At the end, there is a cost 250$ (and the system is not possible in all areas of Amazon delivery) I don’t think it is worth to pay 250$ for this small extra convenience, according to the facts which I mentioned above.

Sources:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/a28778/amazon-key-smart-lock-let-people-into-your-home/

 

https://9to5mac.com/2017/10/25/amazon-launches-smart-lock-and-security-cam-system-to-take-in-home-deliveries-for-prime-members-with-iphone-app-alerts/

One thought on “Smart Home Technology for delivery? Sure, no more problem, Amazon gives you the tools.

  1. Gianluca Moneta says:

    Amazon always gives interesting news! It is certainly light years ahead of its competitors and does not seems to want to slow down! Effectively the system is brilliant and apparently does not seem to have flaws. Honestly I could not tell you if I would trust to open my home to a stranger while I’m not there. In short, the camera guarantees evidence of fraud but why risk? Just to make sure you receive the package one or two days before? Perhaps the price is not particularly high for such equipment but it is certainly too high for the need it wants to satisfy. In conclusion I believe that amazon has the creativity and the economic strength necessary to find better solutions.

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