Building a Face Recognition Powered Door Lock

After writing the previous blog post about face recognition, we decided to build a real-world face recognition project in Ars Futura – a face recognition door lock. Smart Lock, as we call it, recognises people based on their face and unlocks the door if the person works at Ars Futura. As you can see in the video above, we installed a front door camera that unlocks the door based on who is outside the office. I can proudly say that we have had Smart Lock running for over a year. After some initial hiccups, we managed to get it working pretty well.