New Delhi, June 23 -- Unlocking doors with fingerprints or tapping a cards on screen is a technology that came with convenience like any other machinery. But, with more reports of fire incidents of late, the question arises: what happens smart systems lock automatically during an emergency? Be it the recent fire at a commercial complex in Lucknow's Aliganj - that has claimed 15 lives - or the one at the bed and breakfast in Delhi's Hauz Rani Market earlier this month - which led to 23 deaths and several injured - the investigations show how biometric auto-lock system on the main gate led to trapping of occupants inside.

This isn't all, earlier this in January, a devastating fire in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) also claimed the lives of eight ...