One of the prerequisites of the contemporary times is having security feature installed in your house, and thanks to the ancient Egyptian people for the invention of door locks. The earliest locks were created around 4000 BCE, which essentially was a pin-tumbler lock, in which a carved-out bolt in the door used to be connected to pins, which could be manipulated by insertion of a key. When the key is pushed upwards on the pins, they happened to slip away from the bolt shaft, allowing it to open.

Over the years the shapes and sizes of locks kept changing, and the modern day technology brings us digital home-safety solutions. To know more about the evolution and benefits of the digital locking system, click here.