From the appearance of science fiction movies, to the formal application of banks and financial institutions, and then gradually being adopted by families, the popularity of smart door locks, a brand-new product, began to become faster and faster, followed by rapid consumer attention. Promote. In particular, the addition of Internet companies and some start-up companies has played a role in helping users to understand smart door locks, and the industry has become more and more popular.
However, in such a high-attention and high-heat industry, the lack of corresponding standards and regulations has caused a lot of chaos in the market. These chaos not only undermine the confidence of users in the safety of smart door locks, but also attract A bunch of unscrupulous companies and merchants have left the entire smart door lock market with no enthusiasm and voice, but the user base and penetration rate are far from reaching industry expectations.
The home security market in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea is relatively mature and has relatively complete and strict national standards. It has unified regulations on the size of smart locks, lock cores, and lock bodies. Although my country’s smart locks have many national standards and industry standards, there are many blanks in the national standards and specifications and they are concentrated in the field of public and building standards, and the industry standards are quite messy. Let’s analyze the current conditions. Under the chaos existing in the smart door lock industry.
Price system chaos
This can be said to be the most intuitive realization of smart locks at this stage. On Jingdong or Taobao, you will find that the highest price difference for the same smart door lock and different brands can reach around 5,000 yuan, and the lowest price difference is about 400 yuan. As far as the same brand is concerned, some sellers also adjust prices at any time. The confusion in the price system is mainly due to the irregularities in the industry. Except for the lock body, there is no standard for what type of fingerprint recognition, what chip, and what password level is used. In addition, the supply chain system is opaque, which has led to some unscrupulous companies in the market for smart door locks. The price is basically the state of bidding as much as you want, which is a manifestation of the industry's irregularities.
Immature technology
The most intuitive difference between smart door locks and traditional mechanical locks is the difference in unlocking methods. In the past, the lock could only be unlocked with a key. In the smart era, there are more convenient methods such as faces, fingerprints, and passwords. In other words, personal physiological information has replaced them. The key becomes the part of unlocking. In fact, it is to electronicize the traditional door lock, so as to realize the use of physical characteristics, such as fingerprints or facial recognition as the key, to play a role of safety and convenience. The door lock is roughly divided into two parts: one part is the lock body. Smart door locks with better quality will be equipped with a combination of super B-class lock body + C-class lock cylinder. This combination is tested by the Ministry of Public Security and within 270 minutes. It cannot be opened technically, and the security level is very high; one part is the front and rear panels, and there are corresponding control circuits in the panels.
However, there are many problems in this. For example, the immaturity of technology during research and development leads to insufficient sensitivity to fingerprint recognition. Sometimes the door cannot be locked with fingerprints, and sometimes the door cannot be closed. In short, In the final analysis, the reason for these problems is that the technology of smart door lock research and development is not mature enough, and it is not able to provide us with completely error-free services.
Quality problems need to be rectified
The high-quality door lock body will be made of 304 stainless steel, which is highly adaptable and versatile to nature. For example, the air in the south is humid, and the use of 304 stainless steel can prevent rust from affecting the safety and service life of the lock body. Not only the lock body, including the inner and outer panels of the lock, conscience lock companies will also use 304 stainless steel or a material with stronger hardness and corrosion resistance to ensure the service life while taking into account the safety of the door lock.
However, most of the smart door locks in the market are inadequate in terms of materials. The back panel of the front and rear panels is a thin sheet of iron, and the panel is also made of thin steel, and the circuit part is installed in it. Let consumers feel that the material of the door lock is solid, and some useless and heavy steel blocks are added to the inside of the panel, which is not visible at all when sealed inside, and because of this, the product price can be higher.
The existence of false propaganda
Another chaotic phenomenon of smart door locks is false propaganda. Among the smart door lock corporate propaganda that can be seen at present, two propaganda are the most commonly used, and consumers are most likely to be fooled. One is counterfeit international brands, and the other One is that the propaganda does not match the actual situation.
Apart from the complaints about product quality and technology, the packaging of the brand story is the most important thing. In order to achieve this goal, some smart door lock companies have opened overseas acquisition models. For example, they went to Europe and the United States to buy a lock factory that was about to close down. After repackaging, it was transformed into an international door with decades or even hundreds of years. Lock well-known brands to satisfy consumers' potential perception that imported goods are better than domestic ones.
Excluding the brand packaging, the exaggeration of product functions, the discrepancy between the advertising experience and the actual experience, and the inconsistency between the lock body and the publicity, etc. are everywhere. This kind of publicity can mislead consumers to buy its products, and at the same time seriously threaten the safety of people and property. Thefts caused by the installation of inferior smart door locks are also increasing.
Security and user experience urgently need to be guaranteed
At present, companies do not have a standard reference basis in the production and design process, and standard confusion leads to uneven product quality. If products can be manufactured under uniform standards, the ultimate guarantee is the interests of our consumers. Due to cost, technology, talents and other reasons, some small and medium-sized manufacturers in the industry fail to produce products that meet the standards. They lack experience in safety assurance, R&D innovation, quality testing, and supplier liaison. They can only rely on the strategy of small profits but quick turnover. Impact on the market, but the quality of the product will determine the upper limit of their development, and it will inevitably withdraw from the market in the long run.
The development and popularization of the smart lock industry will have a certain negative impact. Inferior products will inevitably appear. In front of the price, bad coins may drive out good coins, making the entire industry chaotic. Furthermore, inferior products ultimately harm the interests of consumers. For example, the user's fingerprint template and data are stored in the smart lock. If there is no nationally certified security chip in the smart lock, the fingerprint template and data may be stolen. If fingerprint templates and data are stored in the cloud, there is a greater risk of attacks on network transmission.
Many smart door locks now have security problems. For example, the previous "small black box opens the smart lock in seconds" incident has caused serious doubts about the security of smart door locks. The door lock itself should also be updated, and the current popular smart door lock is just an upgraded version of the traditional door lock, but it will be much more expensive than the traditional door lock in terms of price, but the core point is that the door lock It itself acts as the “guardian†of family security, and increasing the budget on the security of door locks is essentially to protect the safety of family property, so security is the most basic function that smart door locks should have.
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