My favorite 8 smart home upgrades of the year (and why they’ve already paid for themselves)

The Lockly Visage Zeno Series is the best smart lock I’ve tested. It features facial recognition, so it unlocks your door as soon as you come into view, making it much more secure than entering a passcode. Lockly ensures your facial recognition data is encrypted and stored in the smart lock, so it doesn’t get sent to cloud servers.

And if you still want to use a keycode for entry, this smart lock features Lockly’s PIN Genie technology, which scrambles the numbers on the keypad so onlookers can’t guess…