Firearm Storage Meets the 21st Century with Lockdown Logic Enabled Security Products

In this article we are going to take a look at the Lockdown Logic enabled line of products from Lockdown and their newly updated Logic App.

The world has gone digital and whether we like it or not, technology has hit us like a tsunami over the last 50 years and it will never recede to simpler times. While we may wish some things would go back to the analog days, there are countless products hitting the market at record speed which are actually changing our day to day lives for the better. One such manufacturer who is working to change their slice of the gun industry for the better and make it more connected, is Lockdown.

If you aren’t familiar with Lockdown, they are a secure storage and organization company that is part of the American Outdoor Brands family of companies. Lockdown offers a wide variety of products which help you organize and secure your firearms, magazines and much more. While firearm storage is generally an afterthought, it shouldn’t be. Keeping your guns out of the hands of those who should not have them is priority number one in this day and age, but keeping your collection safe from damage is not far behind.

In years past, the average gun owner really did not have many options when it came to organization and safe storage beyond being a helicopter parent to your growing gun collection. Many opted to use rechargeable silica gel products to help regulate humidity and if your safe was large enough you may have a factory installed outlet which would allow for a more robust dehumidifier. While those options were and still are worthwhile to help mitigate a degree of moisture, they don’t do much in the way of monitoring.

The technology market has been absolutely bombarded over the last few years with DIY home security systems and products from video monitoring to self installed security systems. Home automation has grown exponentially with 10’s of billions of smart devices being deployed in homes all across the globe. I’m uniquely aware of this space because I owned a smart home integration business while the market was in it’s infancy and can say with reasonable confidence, many of the products that people are installing are overkill. There is a fine line you walk between functional and completely impractical when buying “smart” tech.

With all of that said, the one thing I always consider when thinking about buying a “smart” product is whether or not it is going to actually make my life easier or solve a real problem that I am presented with regularly. Consider something like a smart vacuum with voice control in your hierarchy of tech needs. It may seem cool to be able to bark commands at a robot vacuum when you drop a bowl of popcorn, but I can almost guarantee that after the first time you do it, you will be underwhelmed.

On the other side of the robot vacuum are products that really deliver on the entire idea of why smart tech was created in the first place. This is where Lockdown comes in to play with their logic enabled products. You may not think smart tech has a place in your gun safe, but I think you may change your mind after reading more about what Lockdown can bring to the table. This article was spurred by a personal need to monitor my firearms and gear, whether I’m at home or on the road.

I recently made the decision that working from home could not be a long term option for me unless I created a dedicated space to go to during work hours. So, I took over my 500sqft detached garage and turned it in to an office, gym, and secure location for all of my gear. That decision resulted in a year long project to transform my dingy garage into a space that I wanted to spend hours of my day in. One of the biggest areas of focus for me was building a secure room to put my gun safes and ancillary gear in. I decided on a 6’X6′ reinforced room with a steel core exterior door. I plan to upgrade the door to the Lockdown vault door as soon as they become available early next year.

With my space built out and all of my things finally organized, the next step was getting a solution together that would allow me to monitor my gear now that it was all in a building separated from my house. With Lockdown‘s logic enabled products, the hardware was already available to provide a number of high value monitoring capabilities. While the hardware is exceptional, the app was ready for a refresh, and a refresh is exactly what it got. Lockdown released an all new version which created a much more stable and user friendly interface.

Lockdown currently has 4 categories of products that we’ll get in to later on in this article, but as far as set up goes it is extremely simple. Since all of the products are using Wi-Fi to connect to your account rather than bluetooth, you simply have to follow the onscreen prompts and connect to a temporary Wi-Fi hotspot which the specific device broadcasts. Once connected, your device is added to your app and available in your dashboard. The entire set up process for a single device takes less than a minute.

The app also provides a guided walkthrough for first time users which I found to be very helpful.

What I love about the entire suite of products and the app is that I now have multiple layers of monitoring for my gear. Within the Lockdown Logic app, I have my devices easily accessible and organized so that I can quickly open it and check status on everything. The app also has push notifications which can alert you of various things such as door openings, motion disturbance, temp and humidity, and more when using the Lockdown Puck. I can also uses 3rd party apps like IFTTT to create a sequence of events when a threshold is met, such as high temps or motion disturbances. You can also do the same within the app using the Logic functionality built directly in.

Overall, the app is incredibly easy to use from set up all the way through to daily use. Having used various apps from smart home technology manufacturers I think that Lockdown did the right thing when refreshing their IOS and Android monitoring apps. They provided the right mixture of function and usability to let users decide how they want to use the hardware. Being able to pick and choose the alerts I want and where to receive them is an awesome feature in itself.

You can download the Logic app for IOS and Android at the links below.

IOS

Android

Now that we’ve checked out the app, let’s take a look at the hardware that is compatible with it.