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Key-free locks are the new real estate must-have

Earlier this month, we wrote about the first office block in Australia to incorporate completely hands-free entry.

While the developers on that high-rise had the somewhat prescient technology in the pipeline well before COVID-19 caused us all to think differently about public space, a start-up in Los Angeles is finding their hands-free offering is suddenly a hot commodity.

Openpath just raised $36 million in funding, as offices across the world are rushing to implement touch-free technology. Their system allows customers and workers to open doors with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and can be linked to G-Suite and Office 365 to schedule worker permissions and automatic locking times.

The company recently launched a new feature to allow people to use their hand, mobile phone or an action to unlock doors. It has already been installed in over 10,000 US offices.

โ€œWeโ€™ve seen inbound leads and pipeline grow, and our resellers are sending out more proposals than ever,โ€ CEO Alex Kazerani told tech mag Built In.

โ€œWe can definitely see a spike in web traffic as well for COVID-19 related searches for our technology.โ€

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Nathan Jolly

Nathan Jolly was an in-house journalist with Elite Agent. He worked with the company from July 2020 to December 2020.