For many people, smart door locks are a new category, and the public’s cognition of smart door locks mostly stays in film and television works. Since the push-type fingerprint identification scheme was perfected, the market demand for smart door locks was suddenly opened.
In 2017, smart door locks developed explosively. However, consumers have not been able to have a comprehensive understanding of smart door locks until now, and they can only judge the quality of a smart door lock from a few words about smart door locks on the Internet.
As an ordinary consumer, of course, I hope that the lower the price, the better, and the higher the function, the better. Compared with ordinary door locks of a few dollars, smart door locks of around 1,000 yuan are really expensive. However, if you understand the functional application and chip situation of the smart door lock, you may feel more at ease, and you will no longer care about the price.
Where is the smart lock expensive?
The most obvious difference between smart door locks and ordinary door locks is that ordinary door locks need to wear keys at all times, and if there is no key, they can’t open the door. The smart door lock has many functions such as key, fingerprint identification, WeChat unlocking, password unlocking, etc. Even if you forget to bring your key, you can unlock it in many ways.
The first place where smart door locks catch fire is not in ordinary families, but in hotels, high-grade office places, high-grade villas or high-grade residential areas. With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards and income, after consumers have experienced smart door locks in hotels and high-end office places, many consumers begin to replace ordinary locks at home with smart door locks. Why do you think smart door locks are expensive? Intelligent door locks are more expensive than ordinary locks in three aspects.
First, the workmanship
Ordinary locks only have safety attributes, while intelligent door locks are beautifully designed and easy to operate. For example, the design should consider the realization of functions, and the realization of functions needs the cooperation of algorithm design. Therefore, to judge whether a smart lock brand has R&D strength, we can get a glimpse of it by looking at its product update speed and brand promotion.
A good fingerprint lock brand will pay special attention to quality inspection technology and quality inspection standards. A good fingerprint lock product needs to go through tens of thousands of simulated unlocking experiments, explosion-proof and abrasion-proof tests, high-temperature oven tests, rain box moisture-proof tests, hydrochloric acid box anti-corrosion tests, pressure box shock-proof tests and other tests before leaving the factory in batches to ensure the performance of the product. Ensure that each factory fingerprint lock can be used normally and stably.
Ordinary household locks have little change in appearance and interior, and can be completed by ordinary lock manufacturers without hiring professional designers and R&D personnel, while intelligent locks are a collection of more than 20 disciplines including design, materials, machinery, mechanics, electronics, chips, optics, etc., and the technological process is extremely complicated, and the huge human and material costs cannot be borne by ordinary lock manufacturers.
Second, the operation is convenient
Under normal circumstances, consumers should take so-called key money, ID cards, mobile phones, keys, wallets and other things when they go out. If smart door locks are installed at home, consumers don’t have to bring keys when they go out, and their lifestyle is more convenient. Especially for friends who have poor memory or are used to forgetting things, smart door locks are definitely good news.
Smart door locks are unlocked by fingerprint, password, face recognition, iris and WeChat, which is convenient for the elderly and children. Users can also set a one-time password or temporarily open the door to facilitate visitors, which is completely incomparable to mechanical locks.
Third, safety and after-sales
A smart lock takes at least one year from functional investigation, industrial design, mold opening, product testing to product listing. The biggest function of door lock is to ensure safety. Intelligent door lock not only has all the characteristics of traditional mechanical lock, but also has the functions of network notification. When the door lock in the user’s home is abnormally opened, corresponding information will be sent to the mobile phone, so that the user can know and deal with it in the first time, and the passive safety will be changed into active safety.
The sales, installation and after-sales maintenance of smart locks are very dependent on offline, especially after installation. They can’t be sent back to the factory for maintenance, so they can only be served by professionals. Enterprises must make large-scale offline layout and maintain the after-sales process. Once the intermediate costs are reduced, the products will not be guaranteed after sale, and the huge after-sales maintenance expenses plus the R&D and production costs will lead to higher prices of brand smart locks than ordinary locks.
Fourth, the smart lock is optimistic about the core.
Users who know a little about locks know that lock cores are graded, including grade A, grade B and grade C.. Among them, Class A lock core is the weakest, and Class C is the highest level at present. By the shape of the key, we can distinguish the lock core grade and judge the technical unlocking time. The more "teeth" or "grooves" on the key, the more complicated it is, and the more difficult it is to open the lock.
(1) Class A lock core
Safety factor: The safety factor is extremely low, and most of them will attract "Jiang Yang thieves". In terms of destructive unlocking time, drilling prevention, prying prevention, pulling prevention and impact prevention are more than 10 minutes, and sawing prevention is more than 5 minutes; Technical unlocking time is more than 1 minute. The damage prevention is very poor. The type of A-class lock key is generally a straight or cross key.
Structure: The structure of this lock is very simple, only five or six marbles are needed. For the keys of Class A lock core, generally, their prices are very low, and the safety factor is also very low. They are mostly used for wooden doors or tin doors in old communities. The marble structure is very simple. It can be opened in minutes with a tinfoil tool, and it will not make a sound when opened. This kind of lock can not only be opened instantly, but also won’t break the lock, so it is not easy to be found.
(2) Class B lock core
The safety factor of Class B lock core is relatively high, which can stop most thieves. In the destructive unlocking time, the drilling, prying, pulling and impact resistance of Class B locks are more than 15 minutes, and the sawing resistance is more than 5 minutes. Technical unlocking time is more than 5 minutes.
(3) Class C lock core
The safety factor of class C lock core is very high, but it is not unbreakable. In the destructive unlocking time, the anti-drilling, anti-sawing, anti-prying, anti-pulling and anti-impact time are all over 30 minutes; Technical unlocking time is more than 10 minutes. It is said that the anti-theft unlocking time of some C-class locks can be as high as 400 minutes, which can be said to be very powerful.
Keys using class C lock cores are generally crescent-shaped multi-row keys or three-row blade-type keys. It is made of all blades, and the back is flat. There are three dimensions of "groove+pit+mysterious grain" on it. It is said that there are four dimensions of new locks, adding a plane.
For the door lock with a C-class lock core, the safety factor is extremely high. If the key is accidentally lost, it is basically difficult to open it, and it is likely that the lock core will be scrapped before it can be opened. However, if it is used in the smart lock, there is no such problem. Just swipe the card or unlock the fingerprint, and there is no need for a key at all. Its price is naturally much higher. Think about the difference between ordinary mobile phones and smart phones, and it is estimated that everyone will understand it easily.
Debaodun fingerprint password lock, as a well-known manufacturer in the industry, controls the quality of smart locks from the source, with stable quality, leading function and high cost performance, and is a rare high-quality supplier in the fingerprint lock industry. With stable quality, leading development ability and perfect after-sales system, Debaodun wholeheartedly provides services to our customers. We only concentrate on doing a good job of fingerprint lock for ten years, and we look forward to meeting you by destiny.