Advantages E1 fully automatic smart lock review: give you everything you yearn for

[Mobile China Review] When did you make up your mind to replace a smart lock? Some people say that when the keys are forgotten at the company and they are already at home, the two-hour round trip takes a heavy toll on their already fragile body and mind. Some people say that when a key is lost, you have to ask a locksmith to come and replace it with a new lock. Not to mention time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly. The editor recently rushed home excitedly, cleaned up the house, and went out in simple clothes to put the garbage away. At the door, for a second, there was only a \”plop\” sound, and the door had been taken away by the wind. He had no clothes, no mobile phone, and no money. After thinking about his life for two hours, he was finally rescued by his family members who came back.

We have experienced these embarrassing moments countless times since we were young. However, in the past, the popularity of smart door locks was too low. Many people did not know that there was such a solution, or they knew that, but in the The expensive price is prohibitive. As the wheel of time moves towards 2018, the spring of smart door locks has finally arrived. More and more Internet manufacturers, traditional companies, and technology giants are making efforts here. Smart door locks are ushering in a big explosion, with a sudden increase in new products. Consumers are dazzled.

How to choose a product that suits you in the dazzling smart lock market is a hard work that tests your brain and physical strength, and there is also a lot of common sense about smart locks that we need to know. To this end, Mobile China has specially launched a series of articles on smart door locks (\”Emergency standards are urgently needed: Interpretation of the five major chaos in the smart door lock industry\”, \”How do smart locks work? Is networked control necessary?\”, \”Smart lock industry What are the standard lock bodies and how to choose a lock cylinder? \”, \”What are the differences between manual and automatic smart door locks\”, etc.), you will definitely gain a lot after reading this.

We will also continue to evaluate the currently popular smart lock products. This time we will bring you the experience of using the Advantage Smart Lock E1 . Advantage Smart Lock is produced by Advantage Technology, and its founder Liu Jiangfeng is more familiar to us. He is the former President of Huawei Honor and the former CEO of Coolpad Group. After many years of ups and downs in the mobile phone industry, Liu Jiangfeng turned around and invested in the blue ocean of smart door locks.

As a new brand, what advantages does Advantage Technology have in the field of smart door locks? Advantage Technology is a brand jointly established by Liu Jiangfeng and Kaadas. The latter is one of the top ten brands of smart locks in China, with strong R&D strength and historical accumulation. From this point of view, although Advantage Technology looks very young, it hasThe points are very high, surpassing most start-up companies in the field of smart locks in terms of technology research and development strength.

Hammer Technology 2018 Spring New Product Launch

Advantage Smart Lock E1 is a high-end series of smart locks from Advantage Technology, and it also focuses on cost-effectiveness The advantages of smart lock C1, and split door lock C1N. At the 2018 spring new product launch conference of Smartisan Technology on April 9, Luo Yonghao personally released these three smart locks for his partner Advantages. The huge voice of Liu Jiangfeng, Lao Luo and Smartisan Technology made Advantages jump from a rookie in the industry to become the current Popular smart lock brands.

Integrated streamlined design with hidden touch panel

In appearance, Advantage Smart Lock E1 adopts an integrated streamlined design and is equipped with an integrated touch panel. It brings overall beauty and is more in line with modern people\’s discerning aesthetics. The all-metal lock body lock frame is full of texture, has an excellent feel, and is safe and stable. Most users who buy smart locks are born in the 80s and 90s. They are more picky about the appearance and style of smart home products, and the Advantage Smart Lock E1 is their choice. The common multi-section smart door lock design is just like the antenna lines on the back of early metal mobile phones. It has a strong sense of fragmentation and poor aesthetics, making it difficult to interest people.

Advantage smart lock E1 outer version

Advantage smart lock E1 has a unique push-pull handle, easy to open and close, in line with Ergonomic design, one step to push and pull, one step to switch. When going out from the door, you only need to push the handle to go out; when entering the door, wait until the unlock is completed, pull the handle, and you can enter. In comparison, although the common push-down fingerprint lock is closer to a traditional mechanical door lock in appearance and looks familiar, it lacks sophistication.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Side

Multiple unlocking methods Meet more needs

Smart locks have a very high penetration rate in Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea. Technically, most smart locks in Japan and South Korea are non-networked, and the technologies are mainly based on passwords and card swiping. In Europe and the United States, they are mainly based on Bluetooth and passwords, and there are also few networked devices. The penetration rate of smart locks in my country is less than 5%, but because of this, my country\’s smart lock brands have taken advantage of the mobile Internet and IoT, and have more innovative applications and advanced designs.

Advantages Smart Lock E1

Advantages Smart Lock E1 supports fingerprint opening, password opening, card opening, mobile phone opening, key opening, bracelet opening, etc. A variety of unlocking methods surpass most smart locks that have been widely popular in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. The flexible door opening method can adapt the best \”key\” to family members of different ages. The elderly and children are not suitable for fingerprint scanning, so they can be equipped with door cards respectively; when guests visit the home, time-sensitive passwords can be issued to them.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 comes standard with a door card

Advantages Smart Lock E1 External EditionMechanical keyhole at the bottom

Fingerprint door opening

Let’s look at the fingerprint door opening first. The advantages of smart lock E1 are that the fingerprint recognition module is located at the top, with a The cover is used to protect the fingerprint module and the LCD screen used to display unlocking information. When using it, you only need to swipe upward to open the cover, and the fingerprint will be recognized and the door will open automatically. Some smart locks place the fingerprint module on the handle, which is convenient to use. However, the fingerprint module exposed on the handle has no protective measures and its durability may be affected.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Fingerprint Cover

Advantage smart lock E1 fingerprint recognition

Advantage smart lock E1 uses Swedish FPC semiconductor fingerprint sensor, bank-level fingerprint solution, 0.3s extremely fast identification, 99.9% one-time recognition success rate, instant unlocking. It has a dedicated algorithm chip and is capable of 360° self-learning. The more you use it, the better it will understand you.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Fingerprint Module

Password to open the door

Password to open the door Proceed through the touch panel. Advantages of Smart Lock E1The integrated touch panel is very special. When not in use, it looks like a black glass panel, elegant and delicate. You can\’t see any buttons except for a small white prompt in the middle, which is full of simple beauty. The numeric keypad area lights up only when our finger touches the white area. This design not only ensures that we can input quickly, but also keeps it \”low-key\” when not in use, preventing curious children from damaging the keyboard when they see it.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Password Unlocking

After the virtual keys of the Advantage Smart Lock E1 are hidden

The password needs to be set on the \”Yuejia\” app, which can store 150 groups, including 100 sets of common (time-limited, periodic, limited) passwords and 50 sets of temporary passwords. You can add any dummy password before and after the user password. The dummy password can prevent peeping. Entering any number before and after the correct password sequence can still open the door to prevent others from peeping.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 app management

Opening the door with your mobile phone

Opening the door with your mobile phone is mainly done through the app \”Youjia\” of the Youyu smart lock, which is bound to the smart lock.Turn on Bluetooth on your phone, open the door lock app, enter the main page of the door lock, and click the unlock button. When you are playing console games or \”laying down\” at home, you can quickly open the door without getting up, and the delivery boy will understand and deliver the food to you.

Advantages Smart Lock E1app Management

Swipe card to open the door, bracelet to open the door

The door card is also required to open the door. Set up on the \”Youyoujia\” app and support up to 100 door cards. Advantages Smart Lock E1 comes with two door cards as standard. If you need more, you only need to purchase additional door cards. To open the door, you need to use the smart bracelet provided by Advantages or purchased separately. It is also very convenient, but the cost is much higher than other ways of opening the door.

Advantage Smart Lock E1 – Bracelet to open the door

Is Advantage Smart Lock E1 safe? More comprehensive than you think

When it comes to the safety of door locks, we have to mention the lock cylinder of smart locks. The lock cylinder is the most obvious and important part to test the safety of a home door lock. Currently, the Ministry of Public Security standards have three levels: A, B, and C. Advantage smart lock E1 adopts the industry\’s highest configuration C-level lock cylinder. Advantage officially claims that even professionals can open the lock in 270 minutes, making it very safe.

Smart lock cylinder

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Mechanical Key

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Mechanical Key

The safety of the lock is important, but personal safety is even more important. Advantages Smart Lock E1 has a hijacking alarm function. The probability is very small, but if it happens, it will undoubtedly help you and your family escape quickly. You only need to set the hijacking alarm password and the hijacking alarm fingerprint to deal with this extreme demand (the hijacking alarm password requires a wireless module, which can be output after unlocking. Alarm signal)

Advantages Smart Lock E1 app alert event

Hijack alarm function demonstration

The patch that triggers the anti-pry alarm of Advantage Smart Lock E1

The anti-cat-eye function is also an important security feature of Advantage Smart Lock E1. Some thieves will pry Open the cat\’s eye on the door and use a tool to open the door from the inside. The anti-cat\’s eye function can effectively prevent this situation when the anti-cat\’s eye switch is turned to \”red\”. When it turns green, it means that the anti-cat-eye function has been activated. At this time, the door handle is locked and the door cannot be opened indoors, but the door can be opened normally outdoors.

Advantage Smart Lock E1 anti-cat-eye function switch (green area)

Internal anti-locking is also one of the security features of Advantage Smart Lock E1. When someone steals When you know your password and want to enter, long press \”CLOSE\” inside the door. When the key is locked, the square tongue will automatically lock the door and lock all functions of the front panel (including Bluetooth door opening), and the voice prompts \”Locked\”. The door can be opened indoors, and a mechanical key is required to unlock the door outdoors.

Advantage Smart Lock E1

In addition, Advantage Smart Lock E1 also has an arming mode. When someone opens the door indoors, the lock will sound an alarm. When someone enters abnormally through a window or other means, the defense mode is triggered, and you will know. After the door is opened successfully in any way outdoors, the defense mode is automatically released.

The low-power \”little black box\” that is popular on the Internet

I heard that a \”little black box\” can open everything Smart door lock? This is absolutely nonsense! At present, my country\’s smart door lock industry is in an explosive period. There are many brands and it can be said that it is a mixed bag. Some no-name manufacturers and some brand owners are greedy for profit. In order to save costs, they have reduced the safety of smart locks and launched products that can be opened by such simple interference devices.

Advantage smart lock E1 interior

Advantages Smart Lock E1 internal circuit board

In our security test, the \”little black box\” was not at all Unable to open Advantage Smart Lock E1! The reason is that the Advantages Smart Lock E1 uses an industrial-grade main control chip, which has lower power consumption and better performance than consumer-grade electronic product chips.Strong anti-interference ability. Compared with the chips of no-name smart locks, they are even more powerful and unattainable. At the same time, it has lower power consumption and longer standby time, making it the leader among smart locks.

What should I do if the smart lock is out of power or the door lock is abnormal?

First of all, when the Advantages Smart Lock E1 is low on battery, the door lock will give a voice prompt \”Low battery, please replace the battery\”. Just replace it in time. But if the power is really out or the door lock is abnormal, you only need to use a mechanical key to open it. When there is no power, you can also connect an external Micro-USB (5V) power supply. Plug the socket into the emergency power port under the outer panel, and then open the door in the normal way.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Front Panel

The above is the solution to the problem that the door cannot be opened outdoors, so what should I do if it cannot be opened indoors? Emergency electronic opening can help you. When the door lock is abnormal and cannot be opened indoors, you can double-click the \”CLOSE\” button to enable the emergency electronic opening function and drag the main lock tongue back to open the door smoothly.

Advantages Smart Lock E1 is a fully automatic smart lock

The main deadbolt of the manual smart door lock, after entering the correct password, fingerprint information, etc. , it will not retract automatically, but needs to be manually pressed before it can be retracted, and then push/pull the door; the same is true for door locks, the method is lift-up, that is, after closing the door, lift the handle up, and the main lock tongue will pop out . This kind of smart lock is also the most common smart lock. It focuses on cost-effectiveness and sells for around 1,500 yuan. However, compared with the Advantage Smart Lock E1, there is an extra step to open or close the door.

Internal structure of miscellaneous brand manual smart lock

Advantages Smart Lock E1 is the latest fully automatic smart lock. The main deadbolt of the automatic smart door lock will automatically retract after entering the correct password and fingerprint information. You can open the door by pushing or pulling the door directly without pressing.

Advantages smart lock E1 automatic door lock tongue action

Advantages smart lock E1 has a control circuit, motor and transmission in the lock body. propulsion device. There is one more lock tongue than the manual lock body, and its main purpose is to determine whether the door is open or closed. It is judged that the lock tongue is connected to an electronic switch, and when the door is closed, the lock tongue is pressed down. The trigger electronic switch opens, the motor rotates, driving the transmission, the transmission drives the push-pull rod, and the main lock tongue is pushed out.

Internal structure of Advantage Smart Lock E1 automatic door lock

When the password or fingerprint information is correct, the transmission inside Advantage Smart Lock E1 Start, drive the push-pull rod, and push the main lock tongue back. At this time, just pull the door handle and the door will open.

The 6068 national standard lock body is very versatile

The versatility of smart door locks is also a very important issue. No one wants to buy a smart lock , but was forced to dismantle the security door. The inner and outer panels of some smart door locks are much wider than those of traditional door locks. This means that the openings on the door may not necessarily meet the installation requirements of the smart door locks. The anti-theft door needs to be modified before installation, resulting in The installation cost increases and the aesthetics may be greatly compromised.

Advantages Smart Lock E1

Advantage Smart Lock E1

The 6068 standard lock body used by Advantages Smart Door Lock is suitable for 90% of anti-theft doors. It can be said that there is no need to worry about similar The issue of versatility. Advantages The 6068 square tongue national standard lock body of the smart lock E1 is currently the most popular type of home anti-theft door. We only need to measure the thickness of the door panel and other information, and the installer can install it for you quickly after arrival. OK.

Advantages Smart Lock E1

Advantages Smart Lock E1 Deadbolt

Experience Summary:

When you use a fully automatic smart lock , we will never go back! Before experiencing the Advantage Smart Lock E1, we experienced many mid-to-low-end manual smart lock products. The appearance of these smart locks is often simple, and even the innerIt is also very simple. When you enter the password or successfully identify the fingerprint, the deadbolt of the door lock will not automatically retract. Instead, you need to press down on the handle before the mechanical device inside the door lock retracts the deadbolt. To open the door, you need to press down, and to close the door, you need to lift up to pop out the lock tongue. The smart lock E1 lacks these two steps whether it opens or closes the door. Although it is only two steps, it greatly improves the door lock opening and closing experience, and there is no risk of forgetting to lock the door because of forgetting to lift it up. It can be said that fully automatic smart locks are faster, more user-friendly and safer!

Advantages The smart lock E1 has so many ways to open the door that we are stunned. It supports fingerprint opening, password opening, card opening, mobile phone opening, key opening, and bracelet opening. Ordinary smart door locks often only have 3 to 4 unlocking methods. For families with elderly people and children, multiple unlocking methods are very user-friendly. The fingerprints of the elderly and children are not obvious and easy to change. When the fingerprints are invalid, the door can be opened quickly through the door card, password, and bracelet.

Not only that, the fingerprint door opening, password door opening, and card opening door opening of the Advantage Smart Lock E1 support up to 100 groups or more, that is to say, it can support 100 or even 300 people for joint use. When we reviewed it, we also confirmed that the Advantage Smart Lock E1 has an office mode and a default mode. It can be used at home or in the office.

However, in terms of administrator settings, the advantages of smart locks are too obvious in their dependence on mobile phones. Regardless of fingerprints, passwords, and door cards, they all need to be set up on the \”Yuyoujia\” app before they can be used by new family members. Therefore, in the unlikely event that the phone is out of battery or the administrator is out, settings cannot be made.

In terms of aesthetics and humanity, the integrated streamlined design and integrated hidden touch panel of the Advantage Smart Lock E1 are not only more beautiful and elegant, but the hidden design is also very protective. In terms of versatility, the 6068 square tongue national standard lock body used in the Advantage Smart Lock E1 is suitable for most domestic anti-theft doors, and is easy to install and maintain. It can be said that the Advantage Smart Lock E1 meets almost all our current expectations for smart locks. In the highly competitive smart lock industry, Advantage has also won a place for itself with this high-end product.