[Q1 2024] User smartphones now update device access permissions when devices are offline

When a user with the Akiles app downloaded attempts to access through an Akiles device that is offline (without connection to the Akiles Cloud due to lack of power/Internet, and therefore unable to update access permissions), the user’s phone will update the access permissions via Bluetooth that the administrator has granted to that device while it was offline. This process will be automatic and will go completely unnoticed by the user.

This is possible because now user smartphones download and cache the configurations of Akiles devices they have access to, and, when within Bluetooth range of any of these devices, their smartphones send those configurations to them at the moment of opening with the app.

It should be noted that this cache is encrypted and can only be decrypted by the device to which the configuration refers.

Even if the user’s smartphone is also offline at the time of opening due to lack of Internet connection (but has previously been online and cached the configurations), it will be able to update the device’s access permissions, since only a Bluetooth connection needs to be established between both devices.

Practical example:

A Coliving manager grants access to a new member without realizing that the device installed on the apartment entrance door is offline (for example, because the power has gone out). Upon arriving at the apartment, however, the tenant can access without problems, since, in the time it has taken to open the app and slide their finger to open, their smartphone has automatically updated the device’s access permissions.