In the past, I dared to recommend \”semi-automatic\” when selling locks, but now I dared to recommend \”full-automatic\” smart locks.

The transformation from marketing to semi-automatic finger-printed locks to fully automatic smart locks reflects the technological development, market demand, supporting facilities improvement and comprehensive upgrades to user experience. Here is the reason why it changes:

1. Technology maturity: from (barely available) to (stable and reliable)

• Early painful points: Fully automatic locks were due to insufficient motor power (such as not being able to move the world), short flight (frequency frequent battery replacement), high failure rate (blocking, misidentification) and other problems are limited in practicality.
• Current breakthrough: The application of brushless motors, low-power chips, AI algorithms (such as anti-missile contact, living detection) and other technologies makes the stability of fully automatic locks equal to semi-automatic locks or even better . For example, mainstream products can last for 12-18 months and support Type-C emergency power supply.

2. User demand upgrade: from (basic security) to (invisible experience)

• The limitations of semi-automatic lock: It requires manual push and pull of the door handle, which is not friendly to users who carry heavy objects and hold children, and cannot solve the problem of \”forgot to lock the door\”.
• The advantages of fully automatic locking: Automatic locking of doors, automatic locking of doors, remote locking, mobile phone remote viewing of doors and other functions to match modern people\’s pursuit of \”uninfluential smart life\”. For example, temporary nanny access can be granted by a one-time password, without the need for physical key handover.

3. Safety logic emphasis: from (passive protection) to (active protection)

• Traditional thinking: According to lock core level (C-level lock) and mechanical structure, technical opening is still a problem.
• Intelligent protection: Fully automatic lock realizes active security through abnormal alarms (plitting locks, multiple attempts), forced finger alarms, video monitoring and other functions. Some high-end models are even equipped with 3D structural light or static identification, and their anti-repair capability exceeds the traditional fingerprint lock.

4. Cost reduction and supply chain improvement

• Early fully automatic locks were sold at high prices due to customized motors and imported chips (more than 3,000 yuan). Now the domestic supply chain is mature (such as GSTEFF modules and Xiaomi Eco-links), and the mainstream price has dropped to 1,500. -2500 yuan area, the price difference between the semi-automatic locks is reduced to 30%, and the price ratio is significantly improved.

5. The integrated value of smart living eco-nation

• A fully automatic lock is an entrance to the smart living room and can be connected to lighting, air conditioning and other equipment (such as automatic opening of the door). However, semi-automatic locks are difficult to achieve deep communication due to the lack of continuous power supply and networking capabilities. For Xiaomi, Hua, and other ecological environments For brands, fully automatic locks have become the key hardware to improve user stickiness.

6. There is less choice (the product is not rich)

• In the early days, there were semi-automatic smart locks: When civilian smart locks came out, several factories were producing and developing them. In the early days, mechanical locks that imitated the tradition were added to the circuit board and fingertips. As for the research and development, there were semi-automatic smart locks in the early stages.

• Incomplete types of locks: Because there are a small number of factories in production, there are very many types of locks on the market, the early sales volume is not large, and the R&D cost is high, so there are fewer types of locks on the market. Many matching locks do not exist.
• The failure rate is higher: Because it is a product that has just been released, the product is not stable without the time to settle for a long time, and even if it appears, it will not dare to sell it.

8. Afraid of failure sales and after-sales costs are too high

• For early salesmen In other words, the safety and aesthetics of smart locks are second-hand, mainly to ensure the stability of the product, that is, low failure rate is the main pursuit of merchants. Only by having the money given by low failure rate can you get into your own pocket, otherwise you can sell it. The cost will be high.
• The locking tool is unlike other products that fail to open the door, which directly causes the owner to lose access to the door. The repair cost in this situation is too high.
• Early fully automatic intelligent locks could easily lead to the inability to open the door when the door was entered, because the fully automatic intelligent locks were driven off the door through a motor, and the locks needed to move the lock core, which required TrolleyCard body, Early smart locks were all horn-locked, not joint anti-locked locks, which could easily cause If the lock is stuck and cannot open the door, then there will be a phenomenon that the key cannot open the door. This was very common in the early days, so locking sellers dare not sell fully automatic smart locks, which is also the main reason .

Contact locks will not get stuck

After a failure occurs, the key cannot be opened, and it must be broken and opened, which is more expensive.

Total

Technologically mature solutions to the reliability of hardware and software (trust door), user habit upgrades have created (insensitive experience) demand, while cost reduction and ecological integration have enabled fully automatic locking (high-end freshness) ) has changed to (practical necessities). Therefore, under the same budget, fully automatic locks have the rationality to replace semi-automatic locks.