With the development of smart home and smart security, smart door locks have risen rapidly in recent years. In the era of the Internet of Things, the concept of smart home and smart life has gradually entered people’s lives. Smart door locks are no longer limited to fingerprint unlocking, The password unlocks these basic functions, but serves as the entrance to the smart home, allowing the family's lifestyle from complex to simple. In addition to ensuring the safety of family and property, it also provides users with a more comfortable smart home experience. Traditional lock manufacturers, emerging startups, security giants, communications and home appliance manufacturers have stepped in. The market for smart door locks is also infinite, but the price of smart door locks still discourages many consumers, so why is the price of smart door locks so high? How much does it cost? Next, let's analyze it for everyone.
What is a smart door lock?
With the development of the technological era, locks have undergone many updates. Smart locks refer to locks that are different from traditional mechanical locks and are more intelligent in terms of user identification, safety, and management. The smart lock is the executive part of the door lock in the access control system. At present, there are several door locks sold in the domestic market, such as mechanical locks, induction locks, password locks, and fingerprint locks. The functional principles and technical applications of each product are different. Nowadays, ordinary mechanical locks are the most commonly used in people's homes and lives. Smart door locks have various advantages such as the latest smart technology, no need to bring a cassette key, and convenient use by the elderly.
The core components include: lock core, spring, pin, lock tongue and other physical components (for inserting keys), motherboard and clutch, fingerprint collector attached with unique cryptographic technology, microprocessor CPU, smart chip and embedded program, etc. Several core components.
Basic functions of smart door lock
1. Diversified ways to use, you can open the door through a smart phone, fingerprint, or smart watch
2. Remote control can be realized, and the door can be opened for family visitors while in the outdoors
3. The door lock can actively communicate with the user according to its own status, such as reminder of the frequency of door opening and closing, and reminder of violent door breaking.
4. Low energy consumption, ordinary AA battery can be used for more than one year
5. High security, there are smart home system programs for confidentiality
Nowadays, smart door locks are facing the status quo
At present, 97% of households in China have a need to upgrade from mechanical locks to smart locks, and the number of new houses each year will still maintain a relatively high vitality. On the basis of improving the sense of home security, smart door locks form a three-dimensional security system with other security products, and access more smart home scenes. At present, the B-end market of smart door locks has matured, and the C-end market is in the early stages of industrialization.
As far as the domestic smart door lock market is concerned, the B-end is the main market for shipments. In 2016, the B-side shipments of smart door locks accounted for more than 80% of the total shipments. The substantial increase in sales of smart door locks in 2017 is also largely dependent on large-scale purchases by B-end customers. The customers in the B-end market are mainly branded apartments, hotels, and real estate developers. Real estate projects have always been an important shipping channel for high-end door locks, and the same is true for emerging smart door locks.
However, as the concept of smart door locks has become popular in the past two years, many consumers have also begun to understand this product. According to the survey, more than 85% of consumers have heard of smart locks, and more than 70% of young consumers are willing to try smart locks. With the arrival of the marriage and childbirth wave of generations born in the 80s and 90s, the habit of installing smart locks in new home decoration will gradually become popular, and the smart lock market is also expected to usher in a spurt of development in the next few years.
Future development: stability and cost-effectiveness are the key
Although the high price is a helpless move, the price of the product depends on market demand, product quality and other conditions. Both the buyer's message on the e-commerce platform and the evaluation of smart community users reflect that smart door locks still have a major flaw: stability.
Smart door locks require ultra-low power consumption and real-time connection. However, in practical applications, due to the wall penetration, power consumption, and coverage of protocols such as WiFi and ZigBee, they are not enough to support the realization of smart door locks.
At present, there are also large-scale smart home enterprise teams that specifically address these vulnerabilities and launch various solutions or upgrades, and the installation cost of smart door locks is gradually reduced.
Some smart home companies said that smart door locks are actually an entry-level product. What they value more is the diversified smart home scene services extended behind the door locks and the long-term industry innovation in the Internet of Things in the future. In the future, we will continue to increase research and development efforts to increase the stability and cost-effectiveness of products such as smart door locks.
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