Lockitron would have access to additional sensors: motion, fingerprint, infrared, and even an alcohol sensor. Adding each of these would be too expensive and too niche of a feature to implement in-house. To add this functionality using Bridge Connect it’s just a few lines of code. The beauty of Bridge is that it pushes hardware intensive work to the software side which for most people is much easier, faster & cheaper to work in. Anyone who can program an iOS app can also build smart hardware. Creating products like Lockitron would be significantly easier with Bridge. Traditionally you would spend a majority of your time deciding which sensors to use, how to get them to work, how to power them, etc. Thats tough for people who doesn’t fully understand the hardware world. With Bridge, you don’t need to worry about complicated sensors, so you can spend your time programming really great features.