Commercial Smart Lock Companies methodology

Scope

Companies that currently manufacture or directly provide commercially positioned smart or electronic locking hardware together with access-management capabilities for commercial properties. The unit ranked is the company, assessed through its current qualifying portfolio rather than one lock model.

Select a company capable of supplying and supporting commercial smart-lock hardware and associated access management for one or more commercial properties.

Evidence standard

Material score inputs must resolve through a public claim and evidence record to an admissible source. Primary documentation supports specifications and policies; credible independent evidence is used for performance or experiential claims when available. AI output and search snippets are not ranking evidence.

Missing and conflicting evidence

Missing evidence is never guessed or silently reweighted. A predeclared category rule may handle a verified absence; otherwise the score remains incomplete. Conflicting source evidence stays visible, can reduce confidence, and blocks an input when unresolved.

Coverage and confidence

Evidence coverage measures how much of the frozen rubric has admissible support. Confidence reflects source strength, freshness, corroboration, and source-conflict status. Neither measure adds points to the organic score.

Deterministic scoring, rounding, and ties

Scores use the frozen weights above and full-precision deterministic arithmetic. Public scores use one decimal place, but rank order uses the unrounded value. Remaining ties use competition ranking and are never broken by editorial preference.

Versions and corrections

This page describes Version 1.0 of the methodology for Version 4.0 of this ranking. A material evidence or scoring change creates a successor version; prior published history is not silently overwritten.