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Proxy — Access the office effortlessly, using your phone
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This looks really cool and I bet it could be pretty useful with co-working spaces. Also the pricing seems reasonable to me in that setup.
What types of doors does it work on?
Does it need to have an internet connection in order to open or is bluetooth enough? I'm thinking that some firms in bigger complexes maybe don't have wifi available from the 3rd story or so offices 😊
Is it possible to install the hardware by yourself? I'm guessing the technicians are not available outside US?
@curiousigor We are targeting commercial doors with electric strikes / maglocks for now. Co-working is a perfect use case since people rotate all the time!
Internet connection required on your phone, but not the sensor. Unfortunately, we can't support pilots outside the US right now, but would love to chat about your use case anyway - feel free to reach out via email.
wow, looks awesome!
what was your idea behind the name "Proxy"? being not familar with the situation, id argue its a terrible name because most google results will show something very different when searching for it.
@gopietz Im not involved in this but would hazard a guess its because its done in 'proximity' or 'by proxy' so makes sense from that perspective and to be fair most words around that idea will be crammed for results in google
@alistaircoggins @gopietz Good guesses :) "Proximity" is a big part of it, and we have lots of other ideas to make all devices we interact with smarter at detecting your presence and doing useful things for you. We see this as "your proxy" for the physical world dominated by devices.
Man, I've been waiting for something like this to come out ever since the iPhone got NFC/Wallet.
@denismars -- what are your plans on enabling NFC with this and adding a wallet style card? I'm super excited about this!
Love Denis and Simon. They've retrofitted our doors at YC so now we don't have to remember keycodes or our keys. Other smart-locks I looked at were restricted to deadbolt doors only; Proxy's flexibility made it a no-brainer for me.
So glad to have been able to work with them!
@svkpham Thanks Steven! We're super grateful for taking a chance on us when we were just getting started - the real world usage was priceless for us to get this right.
@simonratner @denismars any more info on the one-time tokenization scheme? (white-paper maybe?)
What I think happens: The mobile device gets a one time token from the server (authentication over https), then sends that token to the lock over BLE.
How is the BLE connection secured and how does the lock check the token? Is there a rolling-code kind of scheme going on with the tokens?
Cool product!
awesome idea, we used to use smartlocks to manage the keys of the office but definitely will try proxy
Proxy looks AWESOME. We've been using Kisi for the last few years at our office in San Francisco and it's never been great (and then it just up and died on us a few weeks ago). We just signed up for the Proxy "Pilot"—I hope @denismars and team are still up and running with this product.
@mengyi_yuan glad you like it - nothing like a Corgi on wheels to brighten up the day :)
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