Confirm these four points before changing the smart lock for your home

Smart locks have many advantages over traditional mechanical locks. Although the domestic penetration rate is still not high, with the promotion of merchants, many users have begun to accept and pay attention to smart locks, and their attitudes toward smart locks have changed. At present, only some high-end apartments or residences will be equipped with smart locks for owners, and most families still have to rely on their own replacement to use smart locks.

There are many domestic anti-theft door brands, the specifications of each brand are different, and different brands of smart locks have different support for the door. In addition, there may be thousands of brands and models of smart locks combined. What suits your own home needs careful comparison and selection. You cannot blindly pursue explosive models and hot items. If your family is also planning to change the smart lock, don't buy it in a hurry, first figure out the following points.

1. Determine whether the material and thickness of the old door can be installed with a smart lock

The installation of smart locks has certain requirements on the thickness and material of the door body. Generally speaking, anti-theft doors with a thickness of 40mm-90mm can be matched with most smart locks. Some wooden doors, iron doors, and glass doors with a thickness less than the normal range cannot be installed with conventional smart locks. You need to find some specific brands that make smart locks for these doors.

The type of the old door lock also has an influence on whether the smart lock can be installed, such as an exterior door lock like a bull's-eye lock. This type of door lock is installed outside the door body, and the smart lock needs to embed the lock core inside the door body. After removing the old lock, the lock core of the smart lock has no place to place, so it cannot be replaced.

In addition, it should be noted that when changing from a mechanical lock to a smart lock, it is more or less necessary to modify the door body, remove the old lock, and punch and cut the door according to the installation requirements of the smart lock. This means that it will cause some damage to the door and cannot be restored. Therefore, you must be cautious when choosing an intelligent lock. If you do n’t choose it, you may need to change the door together if you want to change it back to an ordinary lock.

2. See if the smart lock supports the world hook

The world hook is a bit embarrassing in the door lock industry. At present, the locks with the world hook in the market are basically linked with the main lock. For technical unlocking, as long as the main lock is opened, the world hook is also opened at the same time. By the way, technically, there is nothing anti-theft. The existence of the heaven and earth hook actually just extended the violent destruction for some time.

Most of the smart locks of domestic brands support Tiandi hooks. Unsupported locks can also be installed on doors with Tiandi hooks, but the linkage of Tiandi hooks will be removed, then Tiandi hooks will become ornaments. When choosing a smart lock, you must read the introduction or consult customer service in advance to confirm that you support the world hook before buying.

However, although some smart locks support heaven and earth hooks, but there is only one size of lock body, then when the original mechanical lock body is relatively large, it is impossible to install heaven and earth hooks. This also needs to be noted when buying.

3. The more unlocking methods, the better

The biggest difference between smart locks and ordinary locks is that there are multiple unlocking methods, but the more unlocking methods are not the better, as long as they can meet their own needs.

Retaining the traditional mechanical key unlocking method is the unified requirement of the Ministry of Public Security for smart locks. In addition, the current mainstream unlocking methods on the market include fingerprints, passwords, card swiping, APP or WeChat applets, and Bluetooth.

With the continuous development of electronic technology, there are some smart locks that have developed various fancy unlocking methods, such as brushing faces and palmprints. These unlocking methods sound quite "tall", but with many unlocking patterns, the safety factor is low.

For example, some smart locks advertise that bus cards, access control cards, bank cards, and ID cards can be used as door opening cards. The principle of this method is to allow the smart lock to read and remember these cards, then the card information is copied. risks of.

Another example is to unlock the face by swiping the face. At present, facial recognition technology is not as mature as fingerprint recognition. The slight difference in recognition rate and recognition speed will have a great impact on the user experience.

When purchasing a smart lock, the functions must of course be seen, but do n’t blindly pursue fresh and fun features. Leaving security behind, the smart lock is smart, and its function is always a lock, which is used to protect the safety of the family.

4. After-sales service

After-sales service is not very good judgment, ask the merchant when buying the lock, the answer must be support and support are supported, but this kind of after-sale can not be experienced before the purchase, so depending on how the after-sales, we must do more homework Too.

If the relatives and friends around you have used the smart lock of the target brand is the best, just ask to know, or go to the e-commerce platform to view the evaluation of this lock. When looking at evaluations, do n’t just look at the good reviews. After all, there are a lot of 5 Maoists, mainly to see if there are middle or even bad reviews, and there are additional comments with more days apart.

In addition, it also depends on which company this brand belongs to, the size of the company, whether there is a unified after-sales service telephone, service network introduction, etc. Although this seems like a trivial matter, from this point you can see the service capabilities of this company. Some small manufacturers that produce smart locks do not have a complete after-sales service system. Anyone who is responsible for any point will subcontract the after-sales service. When going out to dealers, some even have no after-sales. If you buy such a smart lock, it will be very troublesome if something goes wrong.