Aqara’s first lever intelligent lock unlocks with your phone and your fingerprint

Aqara has begined its first-ever intelligent lever lock, the U300 we saw earlier this year at CES. Available in bdeficiency or silver for $229.99 on Amazon, the U300 is one of the first intelligent lever locks to aid Matter over Thread and Apple Home Key.

You can unlock these doors thraw Aqara’s app or Matter apps enjoy Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, but Aqara also provides a expansive range of other entry selections, including the built-in fingerprint reader, keypad, or physical keys. Apple Home Key aid also unbenevolents you can equitable tap your iPhone or Apple Watch to go in, even when they’ve run out of power.

Lever locks are typicpartner set up on doors for garages, side entries, and home offices. The Verge’s intelligent home appraiseer, Jennifer Tuohy, is still in the process of testing the U300, but so far, she has set up it incredibly plain to unlock. One reason is that the fingerprint reader is findd wilean the deal with, so all you insist to do is grab it as you normpartner would, and it automaticpartner unlocks.

Other notable features include weatherproofing and an IPX4 rating, so you can inslofty the intelligent lock on interior and exterior doors. Aqara also promises a battery life of up to 10 months. There’s also a USB-C Eunitency Port.

The U300 lever lock is participateable now on Amazon in North America, with participateability will broaden to other retailers in South America, South East Asia, and Oceania soon.