Intelligent door lock development history

History of the development of intelligent door locks

History of the development of intelligent door locks, now the improvement of people's standard of living is also accompanied by an increase in security awareness and prevention of the importance of the smart home market has begun to rise, intelligent locks have become the best choice for consumers to upgrade their door locks. The following shares the history of the development of smart door locks.

Smart locks development history 1

In the early 1990s, with the development of the economy and the deepening of reform and opening up, a variety of scientific and technological products, fashion elements from abroad began to influx of China, smart locks (which can only be considered as electronic locks) also entered the Chinese market in this period.

At that time, China's electronic lock pioneers in the absence of experience, no technology under the background, began to Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea and other developed countries electronic locks as a reference for the entrepreneurial journey, and made their own hotel locks. And now, after more than 20 years of development, China has realized the leap from electronic locks to fingerprint locks, and then to smart locks, has successfully ranked among the world's smart locks powerhouse.

If you want to give a summary of the development of China's smart locks, it can be divided into four eras: the early 90s - the late 90s of the swipe card hotel locks and passwords electronic locks era (1, 0 era); 2000-2010 fingerprint locks era (2, 0 era); 2011-2016, a variety of biometrics coexist and smart locks began to touch the Internet era (3, 0 era) ; Starting in 2017, China's smart lock has begun to move towards the 4,0 era of artificial intelligence.

1, 0 era: 19 89-1999, swipe card electronic locks into star hotels standard

The study of electronic locks can be traced back to the 30s of the last century, when the password-type electronic locks have appeared. Relative to mechanical locks, then the combination of electronic locks with a large amount of key, not easy to be copied and other advantages, but because of the price, the manufacturing process is difficult, only in Europe and the United States and other developed countries, some of the special places to get a certain degree of application.

Until the 1980s, with the maturity and development of integrated circuits, the stability of the electronic components of the electronic locks have been further improved, the volume of the electronic locks have become more compact, but due to high power consumption, the cost remains high, etc., is still limited to a small part of the high-end places and high-end people to use, and failed to get a wide range of popularity.

By the 1990s, Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, and Taiwan and Hong Kong and other countries and regions, in microelectronics technology, communications technology, control technology and other emerging technologies have been the rapid development of electronic locks for the research and development and production of technical support. Therefore, in Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea and other countries and regions to get a certain degree of popularity, especially in South Korea, the popularity of household electronic locks more than 10%.

In our country, the development of electronic locks in the 1990s is considered to be the real beginning. During this period, Liwei (19 89 years), Dijier (1990), Aidil (1991), Beida (1992), Ke Yu (1993), the Golden Finger code (1994), Chuangjia (1998), and a number of forerunners began to involve in the production of electronic locks and R & D.

In this period, the electronic locks in Korea, the popularity of household electronic locks is more than 10%.

In this period, China's electronic locks are mainly used in hotels and other commercial areas, these companies mentioned above are basically hotel locks started, and also in the field of hotel locks earned the first bucket of gold. Especially after 1996, the state began to promote electronic door locks in star-rated hotels, and the provisions of the hotel without the use of electronic door locks will not be able to participate in the acceptance, but also can not rate the star, driven by this policy, China's electronic locks industry ushered in the rapid development of the opportunity.

At this stage, the hotel lock occupies more than 95% of China's electronic lock market share. Although the hotel lock market at that time was very large, but most companies do not have their own core technology, is still in the stage of imitation, borrowing from Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea related products.

Beginning in the 1990s, fingerprint-based biometric electronic locks have appeared in developed countries, while China's main use in hotels, the opening method is still based on magnetic cards; to the end of the 1990s, IC cards began to be used in China's electronic lock industry. At the same time, this period also appeared "card + password" open type, but most of the key type password keyboard.

2, 0 era: 2000-2010, fingerprint locks began to move towards the stage of history

Into the 20th century, China's electronic lock industry has been rapid development. A number of companies have also begun to transfer from the hotel electronic locks gradually to the home fingerprint locks. Although the appearance and some technology is still based on the reference to South Korea, but the use of fingerprint identification technology, for the electronic locks for home use process has laid the foundation.

2000-2003 is our country's domestic fingerprint lock industry reserves early. During this period, China's electronic lock industry presents a small volume, small-scale enterprises "two small" characteristics. And electronic locks can only be used in a few high-end neighborhoods. However, in this period, electronic locks began to attract the attention of the state, and the Ministry of Public Security organization drafted and released China's first electronic lock standard - "GA374-2001 electronic security locks" (2001). That is, in China's first electronic lock standard released in 2001, China's first civilian fingerprint locks were born.

2004-2007 is our country with electronic locks began to be favored by the high-end engineering market stage. During this period, although China's electronic locks have not been rid of the "two small" (small industry volume, small-scale enterprises) characteristics, but there are many companies to mass production of electronic locks, and began to receive major real estate developers of high-end residential engineering orders.

2007-2010 is the beginning of China's electronic lock engineering market blowout stage (which is relative to the previous, in fact, the amount is not very large), this period, most of China's enterprises have been imitated from imitation, borrowing, plagiarism of South Korean products, began to embark on the road of independent research and development, the product has begun to have China's own characteristics, the majority of enterprises basically have a clear direction of development. The most representative of the country's first fingerprint lock project settled in Hangzhou, as well as the 2008 Golden Finger code, Procter & Gamble and other companies became the Beijing Olympic Games Asian Games Village electronic locks supplier.

2000-2010, Asia-Pacific Tianneng, Cadiz, Knight, Roppbuckle, Hibes, Deschmann, Hollis, Si Ge, Knight and other professional electronic locks have been born; at the same time, Yale, Gatman and other foreign brands have also begun to sell in China's engineering market; in addition, Yajie, Juli, Jiawei, Chung Heng, Huitai Long, Famous Door, Cherry Blossom, Zhong Heng, the General Assembly and other traditional hardware locks Enterprises also began to layout the field of electronic locks around 2010;

From the perspective of the product, this period of intelligent lock products in addition to the traditional mechanical keys, IC cards and passwords, fingerprint recognition has become the standard for home locks, but the fingerprint module in this period is mainly optical. From the point of view of the number of enterprises, electronic lock companies have risen from less than 50 in the 1,0 era to hundreds.

3, 0 era: 2011-2016, a variety of biometrics coexist, networking has become a trend

From 2011 to 2016, my electronic lock industry has risen from hotel locks, fingerprint locks for smart locks, and showed a surge in the number of companies, the major giants have to seize the beach, the function of a richer The appearance of more fashionable and personalized, stability has been improved, remote unlocking and networking has become a trend and so on.

From the point of view of the number of enterprises, there are a large number of cloud ding, fruit plus, ola, Sherlock, technology man, cloud grapefruit and a large number of Internet brands focusing on smart locks; at the same time, there is a number of emerging enterprises focused on smart locks such as Romance, Black Dragon, Sabatino; before focusing on the traditional locks of the enterprise also have to enter the smart locks; in addition, Haier, Astronergy, Lenovo, Skyworth, the United States, TCL, Haikang, Dahuang, and so on. TCL, Haikang, Dahua and other industry giants also want to get a share in the field of smart locks. The number of enterprises has increased from more than 100 enterprises in the 2,0 era to nearly two thousand enterprises.

In terms of the market, not only the engineering market continues to grow rapidly, the initial installation rate of real estate smart locks has been increasing, and the retail market is also soaring. According to the "China Smart Door Lock White Paper 2017" released by Yi Guan, China's smart lock sales in 2015 was 1.97 million sets, while 2016 showed a rapid growth of 105, 4%, market sales jumped to 4.04, 6 million sets.

From the product point of view, in terms of opening methods, in addition to IC cards, passwords, mechanical keys, fingerprints, a number of companies in order to differentiate the development of face recognition, iris recognition, finger vein recognition and other higher security biometrics technology into the smart lock industry. However, it seems that fingerprint recognition is still the mainstream of the market, and has been upgraded from the optical fingerprint recognition module of the 2,0 era to today's semiconductor fingerprint recognition module.

In terms of appearance, the design of smart locks is more fashionable, bold and personalized compared to the 1,0,2,0 era. European, new Chinese, rustic and other different styles of smart locks a wide range; color is no longer limited to the previous too single form, red, orange, red, green, blue, purple, two-color matching and other different color styles continue to emerge, and therefore won a lot of young consumers' favor.

At the same time, a variety of shapes are also emerging, such as the waist, sports car, push-pull and so on the shape of the extraordinarily compelling, compared to the 1, 0, 2, 0 era of electronic locks, looks more stylish, more sense of technology.

And in recent years, with the development of the Internet of Things, smart home, the Internet, the trend of smart lock networking is also increasingly clear. Smart locks and smart phones, smart routes, smart TVs, etc. staged a smart home "entrance war". And due to the increasing maturity of the Internet of Things technology, remote opening, remote control, remote alarm, remote monitoring has become the standard of many smart locks.

With the depth of the smart lock network and the installation base reached a critical point after the formation of network benefits, "smart lock + APP", or "smart lock + WeChat" has become one of the symbols of the smart lock 3, 0 era, to achieve a machine in the hand, to see the status of the home anytime, anywhere. Check the status of your home anytime, anywhere. And, the form of remote control will continue.

4, 0 era: 2017-,Artificial Intelligence (AI) smart lock has revealed the tip of the horn

Nowadays, with the influx of more enterprises, the competition in the smart lock industry has entered a white-hot, homogenized development state. And in this context, there is no R & D strength of the smart lock enterprise, in addition to imitation and play the low price card, there is no other way to choose.

Therefore, many smart lock enterprises that dare not lag behind, in order to get rid of the shackles of homogenization, are also looking for a new way out, in order to become the industry leader. And in the context of artificial intelligence fire, many smart locks unlock the eyes turned to artificial intelligence body, but also thus opened the smart lock artificial intelligence 4,0 era.

According to Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation, artificial intelligence is the study of computers to simulate some of the human thinking process and intelligent behavior (such as learning, reasoning, thinking, planning, etc.) of the disciplines, including the principle of computer realization of intelligence, the manufacture of computers similar to the intelligence of the human brain, so that computers can achieve a higher level of application.

And artificial intelligence used in the field of smart locks, mainly to achieve a seamless connection and communication between people, machines and systems, so that the door locks have the basic judgment and learning ability, so as to achieve intelligent use; at the same time, through the support of big data, smart locks can analyze and learn from the user's habits of unlocking the door, use habits, and then through the analysis of the user's habits into the machine thinking, so as to provide a better experience for the user. Thus providing users with a better experience.

For example, a smart lock with self-learning can continuously update and learn from the user's operations during the unlocking process, and then further improve the unlocking accuracy and speed during the learning process, and dramatically increase the fingerprint recognition rate, in other words, the more the smart lock is used the faster it gets, and the more the lock is used the better it is;

Another example is a smart lock that can make judgments every day according to the usual going out and coming home time points of the old people and the children at home, and then make judgments every day according to the usual going out and coming home time points of the old people and the children at home. time point, every day will make a judgment and analysis, in addition to daily to inform the user of their entry and exit, lock records, if they are not in the usual often open and close the door time period did not go out on time or did not return home in a timely manner, the smart lock will notify the user and remind the user that it should be to confirm whether they are safe.

Nowadays, although such smart locks have begun to commercialize, but smart locks artificial intelligence 4,0 era has just opened, so there are still a lot of human-computer interaction, human-computer intelligence interconnection, and autonomous learning functions to be developed.

Trends in the future development of the smart lock industry

In the next 5-10 years, the total need for smart locks in China will be more than 30 million sets of the industry's total output value will break through the mark of 100 billion yuan, the industry's hot spots will be the first in the first and second-tier cities to break out, the market penetration will be greatly increased. The popularity of the market will be greatly increased.

At the same time, with the popularity of the first and second tier cities will lead to the popularity of three and four tier cities, and the next five years, China's smart locks will maintain the current demand tension, optimistically estimated that the future in 2020, China's total demand for smart locks will reach about 32 million (as shown in Figure 2), of which to meet the demand for the production and sales will exceed 20 million sets.

In this, the use of Internet technology and smart home technology application of networked smart locks will occupy the absolute mainstream position, stand-alone locks will be out of the mainstream position in the industry, in the recognition technology, biometrics technology will still occupy the absolute mainstream position, but in the biometrics semiconductor-based fingerprint recognition will occupy the forefront of the industry.

Optical fingerprint recognition technology will gradually take precedence over semiconductors, and the absolute value of fingerprint recognition technology will increase, but the relative value of face recognition technology will decline due to the gradual maturity of the technology, and other technologies such as finger vein technology and iris technology will still be in the long term in the development period, applied to some special scenarios, and waiting for the gradual maturity of the application.

In the panel structure, the handle type of smart locks in the next five years will occupy a major position, both in the market and the industry. But the relative value will decline with the maturity of push-pull locks and automatic locks, push-pull locks and automatic locks will occupy a certain position in the overall structure. In particular, with the gradual maturation of the electric lock body, the production threshold falls, there is a considerable possibility of automatic locks and push-pull locks overall proportion of the probability of rising, which is also worth noting.

In terms of appearance, functionality and quality requirements, the future direction of good product development will be towards the development of intelligent door locks "three elements" model, namely: "high value, black technology, many years with me as the original heart" of the three requirements, which three represent respectively Attractive requirements, good appearance, i.e., "high value", the core requirements of the product, the functional needs of technology and meet, i.e., "black technology", the basic requirements of the product, mainly in the product quality and safety performance to become a basic to meet, rather than expanding the The basic requirements of the product, mainly in product quality and safety performance to become a basic satisfaction, rather than expanding the satisfaction, that is: "many years with me as the first heart".

In the development of the brand, the future development of the brand of smart door locks will appear in a variety of directions, including identification, functionality, and marketing of the three directions is the most critical, part of the future brand of smart door locks will pay more attention to the function of identification, that is, based on the performance-price ratio of the brand identification function will be to the foreground of the market.

For example, the brand that imitates the price-performance route of Xiaomi, its price-performance label will be very obvious; the second category is based on the ultimate . Functional experience-based brand will become a major mainstream direction, this type of experience mainly emphasizes functionality, through experience and word of mouth, the formation of a unique brand development pattern;

The third category will be based on the product of superb marketing means of branding will be sought after by consumers, here to emphasize the two words: "product ", "super", no product-based brand is a pseudo-brand, there is no superb marketing means of the brand will also be obscure, only with two attributes of the word product can really form a brand effect.

In terms of price, with the gradual maturation of the future technology, capacity enhancement is higher and higher, the increase in the bargaining power of the supply chain, especially with the fierce competition in the market, and the characteristics of the Chinese market, the overall trend of the future price of smart locks will be a slow decline in the overall trend of product prices, but there will be no irrational decline in the mainstream, in the next five years, the market brand mainstream price will be in the range of 1,500 - 2,500.

In the next five years, the mainstream price of market brands will be in the range of 1500-2500, relative to the pursuit of high-quality crowd 2500-3500 will also have a part of the market.

As the smart door lock products are heavy service experience products, product installation, after-sales service directly determines the consumer's experience of the product, so the problem of service, is the current industry's pain point problem, but also in the future urgent need to solve the pain point in the future development process.

China's smart locks service should be standardized service way forward, through the data-based approach to solve some of the problems encountered in the service process, with the process of service methods to solve the pain points of consumers in the process of product service, and only in this way can we truly promote and facilitate the healthy and orderly development of China's smart locks industry.

Smart locks in our country nearly 20 years of cultivation and development, is undoubtedly a very slow development process, with the development and promotion of high-tech popularization, people's awareness of science and technology has gradually improved, try to change the willingness to experience more and more consumers smart locks, the industry is a good industry, are you ready?

The history of the development of smart locks3

Classification of smart locks

Smart locks: smart locks are differentiated from the traditional mechanical locks, more intelligent locks in terms of user identification, security, management. Intelligent locks are the execution parts of the lock door in the access control system. Now the smart lock is different from the previous way of opening and then scanning, the scanning method is very simple, put your finger on the top of the scanning place from top to bottom scanning can be, no need to press the finger in the scanning place, scanning the way to reduce the fingerprint residue, greatly reducing the possibility of fingerprints being copied, security exclusive.

Fingerprint locks: Fingerprint locks are a kind of human fingerprints as the recognition carrier and means of intelligent locks, which is the perfect crystallization of computer information technology, electronic technology, mechanical technology and modern hardware technology. Fingerprint locks are generally composed of two parts: electronic identification and control, and mechanical linkage system. The uniqueness and non-replicability of live fingerprints determine that fingerprint locks are the most secure locks among all locks. Fingerprint locks in addition to fingerprint recognition, according to the provisions of the Ministry of Public Security, should be equipped with emergency mechanical key.

Combination locks: Combination locks are a kind of lock, open with a series of numbers or symbols, text combination locks can be divided into: mechanical combination locks, digital combination locks and so on. Combination locks are usually just an arrangement of codes rather than a real combination. Part of the combination locks only use a turntable, the lock inside a number of discs or cams rotating; there are also some combination locks is to rotate a set of several engraved with the number of dial ring, directly drive the lock inside the mechanical.

Induction locks: induction locks are a new type of security equipment through the infrared sensor induction, widely used in hotels, hotels and clubs and other smart card field, generally divided into radio frequency locks, induction locks, induction locks, induction locking system for the hotel to provide high-quality door lock system. Induction locks in Europe and the United States has been developed to a certain extent, has long been a measure of high quality of life and life indicators.

Remote control locks: remote control locks are currently the best anti-theft locks. Highly skilled thieves and employees of professional locksmith companies on the current widespread use of mechanical locks. Now remote control locks are also used in homes, hotels, rental housing, warehouses and other various places, greatly facilitating people's lives.