How to choose a smart door lock? 3 tips you should know

Leonord D

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Nowadays, smart door locks are no longer only appearing in hotels, business buildings, high-end villas and other places. They are beginning to enter the general consumer market. The price of smart door lock is from dozens to thousands. Compared with ordinary door lock, smart door lock is safer and more convenient. Today, let's analyze the current smart door locks into several categories, and talk about which products are more reliable to avoid price traps.

How to choose a smart door lock? 3 tips you should know

At present, the common smart door locks in the market are divided into four types according to the types of unlocking: password lock, induction lock, remote control lock and fingerprint lock. Listen to the name and unlock it by setting the password, card sensor, remote control and fingerprint. Password locks and fingerprint locks are mostly used in families, while inductive locks are mostly used in public areas such as offices and hotels. The remote control lock is similar to the car lock. The remote control may be a special key or a mobile phone.

The smart door lock can be opened by fingerprint, password or app. It has a sense of technology and is more secure than ordinary door locks. It is suggested to pay attention to three problems during purchase, which may reduce the probability of entering the pit.

1. Bluetooth lock vs smart lock

Bluetooth lock is a kind of near-field unlocking. Although it can be unlocked with the Bluetooth function of mobile phone, there is still no Internet connection, and there is a certain limit on the unlocking distance. It can not be unlocked remotely with mobile phone like a real smart door lock, nor can it have the function of visitor reminder or alarm like a smart lock.

2. Electronic lock vs smart lock

Password lock and fingerprint unlock must be smart lock? No, it may also be electronic locks. Smart locks and electronic locks can be connected to the Internet, but they can't be connected to the Internet, and the price is expensive and cheap. Therefore, we must find out whether they are electronic locks or smart locks.

3. Not all fingerprint lock security

Nowadays, smart door locks all have fingerprint recognition, but not all fingerprint recognition can give you real peace of mind, and fingerprint unlocking also has technical distinction. At present, the smart locks on the market are mainly divided into optical fingerprint recognition and semiconductor biological living fingerprint recognition.

Compared with optical fingerprint, living fingerprint has higher sensitivity and recognition accuracy. Living fingerprint recognition technology, according to the uniqueness and stability of living fingerprint, adopts real living fingerprint recognition technology, can recognize skin and dermis fingerprint, and can identify skin micro temperature and humidity, to ensure that it is an advanced technology that only living fingerprint can identify. Its most important advantage is to avoid the security problems of duplicating fingerprint and dry fingerprint. It can solve the problem that the fingerprint of the elderly and children is not easy to identify. More importantly, it can effectively eliminate the false fingerprint and better protect the security.

At present, many smart door locks can be connected to WiFi to realize remote unlocking function, but they can not be linked with the family scene control, there is no complete system, such smart door locks only know some simple intelligent interaction, which needs to be strengthened in depth interaction. If you want to start to control the smart door lock of smart TV and smart curtain in your home, you must first consult customer service or sales personnel to ask whether their products support the linkage with other smart devices. If you can generally support the interconnection with any product, the more careful you ask, the better. In this way, when you install the smart door lock, you can choose other products according to its performance Smart devices.

Hope the above information could help you when you have a plan to purchase smart door locks.
 
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