This sounds like a neat setup - do you have anymore info on it? I assume it's custom and not off the shelf?
Here's a brief post I did on the lock system itself: http://adrianpike.tumblr.com/post/6009384439/door-locks-on-r...
Source is over on GH, but it would be pretty straightforward to roll your own nice & quick. If you do want to use mine, I'd be totally willing to help hack in new features, I've got lots of stuff I want to improve it with, but just don't have the side project time.