Schlage announced the Sense Pro Smart Deadbolt at CES 2025, pairing ultra wideband (UWB) ranging with Matter-over-Thread connectivity. It ranks among the earliest smart locks to ship with UWB at all, according to Schlage's CES announcement.

UWB is a meaningful addition to a door lock. The technology uses time-of-flight ranging — a way of measuring distance by timing how long a signal takes to bounce back — at frequencies below the standard cellular bands. This places a paired smartphone in three-dimensional space with centimeter-level accuracy, something Bluetooth alone cannot reliably deliver. For access control, that means hands-free unlocking that can tell whether you are standing on the porch or sitting in your car on the driveway. The distinction matters: proximity-based auto-unlock over Bluetooth has suffered from relay attacks (where an attacker tricks the lock by relaying the signal from a distance) and false positives since the feature emerged. UWB's directional precision solves both problems by design.

The second pillar is Matter-over-Thread. Matter is an application-layer interoperability standard backed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance — essentially a common language that lets smart-home devices from different makers work together. Running it over Thread, a low-power mesh radio protocol, rather than Wi-Fi keeps the lock off your home's main network and cuts power consumption, which is important for a battery-operated device. HomeKit News reported that the Sense Pro has full Matter-over-Thread compatibility, making it Schlage's first product to do so.

Schlage also introduced Schlage Converge technology alongside the Sense Pro. The company has not fully detailed this in public documentation, but the framing suggests a unified software layer that manages UWB, Thread, and legacy Bluetooth channels under one abstraction. How that architecture handles multiple transport layers simultaneously will be worth observing as third-party integrators begin to build around it.

Announced via PR Newswire on January 6, 2025, the Sense Pro arrived alongside the Schlage Arrive Smart WiFi Deadbolt, a separate product that confirms the company is pursuing two distinct connectivity paths. The Arrive targets the wider Wi-Fi-native market; the Sense Pro serves the more technically demanding segment where precision, interoperability, and mesh networking take priority.

UWB is following a predictable adoption curve. It appeared first in flagship phones — Apple's U1 chip shipped in 2019, and Android manufacturers followed — then moved into asset trackers and car entry systems. Smart locks are the next logical category, and Schlage arriving early means its approach will likely influence how the whole category handles UWB credential management and the associated security model. The Thread plus Matter pairing only strengthens the case: it lets the lock operate within a standards-based home automation layer rather than depending on a vendor's cloud servers, which has been the traditional weak point for connected lock reliability.

None of this sidesteps real execution questions. UWB's accuracy degrades with metal door frames and certain building materials; independent testing has not yet established real-world false-positive and false-negative rates at the product level. The Converge software layer is still opaque. And Matter's security track record with complex, access-control devices is shorter than with simpler categories like lights or thermostats.

With those caveats, the specification set Schlage has assembled for the Sense Pro is the most technically complete package the residential lock category has fielded. For anyone building or specifying a smart-home system, this is a device worth following closely as independent testing data begins to emerge.