The Future of Secure Deliveries: Home Smart Tech

Deliveries have always been vulnerable to theft, and security has struggled to keep up. While traditional methods like gates and padlocks offer some deterrence, they’re not foolproof.

Fortunately, smart tech for secure package delivery provides a modern solution to keep your packages safe.

If you’ve ever had a valuable order stolen from your porch or lost in transit, you may be interested in learning the many ways smart home tech prevents package theft.

How Technology is Transforming Package Security

Conventional security measures like locks and gates can present a physical barrier to package deliveries. Security cameras can also help monitor activity and at least provide after-the-fact evidence in the case of theft.

However, unless you live in a fortress complete with towering walls and armed guards, it’s impossible to completely prevent sticky-fingered passers-by from helping themselves to any packages piled on your doorstep.

Plus, a highly fortified home base can make life tough for delivery drivers, as they may have trouble gaining access to the drop-off point, resulting in missed deliveries.

Fortunately, smart home technology is changing the game. These innovative tools rely on cutting-edge tech to enhance home security, promote convenience, and ultimately provide you with greater peace of mind.

A few of the advantages of smart home technology include:

• Motion sensors
• Real-time alerting
• Remote access
• Video intercoms
• App-based control

Technology like this can transform your entire property into ever-vigilant eyes and ears, enabling remote monitoring and seamless delivery of your packages.

Unlike traditional setups, smart home systems provide you with full control and visibility at all times. If any issues arise, you can take immediate action.

The Role of Smart Access in the Future of Deliveries

To truly understand how smart tech ensures delivery protection, we need to focus on one key objective: protecting packages between the time they’re dropped off and the time you return home to receive them.

Two emerging pieces of tech, in particular, simplify this process: the automated parcel locker and the smart lock.

Automated Parcel Locker

Automated parcel lockers provide a secure drop-off site for packages. Here’s how they work:

• Delivery drivers open the locker using a one-time code.
• The code comes tied to a specific resident (if delivering to a multi-unit building).
• The resident receives an instant alert upon drop-off.

Once you return home, you can access your locker by entering the confirmation PIN or scanning a QR code. Without the proper credentials, thieves have no chance of entry.

Smart Locks

Rather than set up a parcel locker, you can rely on smart locks to grant instant remote access to secure areas. Here’s how:

• Receive a push notification that a driver has arrived.
• Confirm their credentials.
• Grant access to a gated interior or garage.

Smart locks also readily integrate with other smart home technology for an overarching monitoring and security solution.

How myQ Smart Garage Access is Leading the Future of Secure Deliveries

One particular area excels as a secure zone for package drops: the garage. Less intimate than granting access to your home, it still provides concealment and security for parcels. Plus, storing packages behind a garage door protects them from the elements and passing porch pirates.

Want to set up your garage as a secure delivery drop-off spot?

myQ, with our roster of comprehensive smart garage solutions, rolls out the red carpet for safe home delivery by equipping your garage with smart locks and remote garage door openers. That means you can easily grant access to delivery carriers no matter where you are.

Better yet, myQ readily integrates with Amazon Key, Amazon’s official in-garage delivery service. Once you set up your myQ Smart Garage system (with the help of our easy-to-follow installation instructions), simply connect to WiFi and link it with your Amazon Key account.

You can use Amazon Key for any type of Amazon drop-off, including:

• Retail packages
• Amazon Fresh
• Whole Foods bundles

Integrating your garage with Amazon deliveries makes it easy to ensure a truly set-it-and-forget-it delivery system.

Plus, with real-time notifications and remote access through the myQ app , you can easily manage garage and home access for neighbors, contractors, and family members while away. That means no more missed calls or logistical headaches while traveling for work or relaxing on vacation.

What Homeowners Can Expect from Smart Delivery Tech in the Coming Years

It’s one thing to learn how smart home devices can prevent package theft now, but what about in the future? As technology continues to develop, we can expect further advances like precision package tracking, self-driving delivery vehicles, or biometric verification. All of this bodes well for homeowners and their security.

In the meantime, you can get ahead of the curve by exploring myQ’s extensive roster of smart home solutions, which include video keypads, garage cameras, and more.

Your high-security, future-proof home awaits. Discover myQ today.

Sources:

DHL Logistic of Things. Everything You Need to Know About Parcel Lockers. https://lot.dhl.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-parcel-lockers/

Amazon.com. How Does Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery Work? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GCDL25VJ6YTBTY78