MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

Last night I got an alert that my front gate had been opened at 11:30 p.m. I immediately pulled up my cameras and saw that a man had come into my front yard and was going through my neighbors mail.

I got on the camera mic and told him that the police were on their way and he put the mail back and slowly walked out. I’ve submitted all of the videos to the post office and we are putting in a locking mailbox tomorrow.

But it got me to thinking, there is no reason for anybody to come through that gate at night, it’s just a small garden gate so I was looking at magnetic locks but I haven’t found any that can be timed or scheduled in any way.

My thought is if I can find a wireless type of maybe magnetic lock I can set up IFTTT system. It needs to be unlocked during the day for package deliveries and the mail person. But there’s no reason it couldn’t be locked at night. It’s not like it’s going to be some insanely secure lock. The wall itself is only three and a half feet high so if somebody wanted in, but if I could at least discourage the drunk ones or the slightly not in the right mind ones from coming into the front yard, that would add to my sense of safety.

Does anyone know of any type of lock that might work? I’ve looked but I’m not finding anything. We could manually lock it and unlock it, but with both of our schedules we would be guaranteed to miss it sometimes and that could be a problem.

TIA!