The Connectivity Standards Alliance's Aliro Smart Lock Standard Hits 1.0, Is Officially Released
Cross-vendor standard aims to do for smart lock systems what Matter did for smart home products.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), best known for its Matter cross-vendor smart home communications standard, has announced the release of the Aliro 1.0 specification — designed to do for digital lock and key systems what Matter did for smart home hardware.
"Aliro is solving the fragmentation that has held back digital key adoption, replacing it with a single interoperability standard built through Alliance Member collaboration," claims Connectivity Standards Alliance president and chief executive officer Tobin Richardson of the launch. "By connecting the access control industry directly to leading mobile wallet ecosystems, it delivers a secure, frictionless experience that goes well beyond the front door. Lower integration complexity means faster innovation and shorter time to market. This is how the future of access control gets built."
Aliro has been in the works for a while now: the CSA announced the standard back in November 2023, alongside its first partnership: ASSA ABLOY. The release of a finalized 1.0 version of the specification, though, comes with support from a broader range of names, including Apple, Google, Infineon, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, Samsung, Texas Instruments' Silicon Labs, and STMicroelectronics, alongside smart lock makers eufy, Kastle, and Last Lock.
The finalized specification and certification program supports tap-to-access via Near-Field Communication (NFC) and longer-range connectivity via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and BLE plus Ultra Wideband (UWB), storing credentials within existing mobile wallet systems from Apple, Google, and Samsung. The aim: to provide a way to authenticate to and control smart lock systems from any vendor without the need for vendor-specific mobile apps, in much the same way the CSA's Matter aims to let you control cross-vendor smart home systems from any Matter-compatible app.
The next step, the CSA says: expanding Aliro's support for use-cases like secure key sharing, while guiding companies through the process of adopting the standard and certifying their smart lock designs as Aliro compatible.
More information is available on the CSA website; interested parties can access the Aliro 1.0 specification from the CSA's downloads page upon free registration.