How smart is a smart door lock? It can open the door for the bad guys on its own.
The emergence of fingerprint locks has solved the trouble of how many people forget to bring their keys, but electrical appliances are electrical appliances after all, and there will be a day when they fail.
At worst, they will not be able to return home, and at worst, their belongings may be stolen or even threaten their personal safety.
Can smart door locks really replace ordinary mechanical locks in the future?
The convenience of fingerprint lock
With the development of science and technology, more and more furniture has been electronic, such as smart TVs, smart voice-activated lights, etc., and even toilets are completely intelligent.
Door locks are no exception, when smart door locks appeared, sales rose in a straight line, and they were once sold out of stock, just because they only needed to tap the fingerprint recognition to open the door, and they no longer needed to bring a key.
With the continuous upgrading of technology, the ways of opening the door with smart door locks have also become diverse, from the initial fingerprint to open the door to the door by brushing the face.
This kind of technology has brought good news to many people, especially those who love to lose everything, and often spend hundreds of dollars to find a locksmith because they can't find the key.
However, when more and more people start to use it, problems gradually surface, and various problems often appear.
If there are only small problems such as a dead battery, it is understandable, but the big problems that occur make many people start to avoid them.
The defects of smart door locks have been vividly exposed, and its sales have been declining, and the biggest hidden danger may lead to both people and money.
Security issues
Know that door locks are an absolutely important thing to keep your property safe in your home.
At the beginning, most of the lost belongings were plucked open by thieves from the outside, but smart door locks are different, it will open the door for the bad guys by itself.
A netizen in Dalian, Liaoning Province told about his smart door lock on the Internet, which opened the door automatically for no reason, and it was not only opened once.
The lock was opened twice in the afternoon and once in the early hours of the morning, which was unacceptable to anyone.
If there is no one at home, the smart door lock opens the door by itself, isn't this equivalent to opening the door to thieves?
And what's even more scary is that if you are sleeping at home in the middle of the night, and the smart door lock opens the door by itself, this situation is scary enough just to think about.
If you say that the situation of opening the door happens once in a while, it is understandable, after all, things are problematic, but such examples abound on the Internet.
Ms. Li in Yuzhou, Henan Province has also encountered this situation, and when she has just renovated her new house, she went to look at it a few days later and found that her door was open.
Later, through the monitoring at home, I learned that the door was opened by myself, and it had been open for a day and a night, but fortunately, nothing was lost at home.
In such a situation, there is no guarantee for property and personal safety, so what is the significance of him as a door lock?
However, there are also many netizens who suspect that the door is not closed properly when entering and exiting, but after his real experience, he found that the electronic door lock does not feel very safe.
In addition to the problem of automatic door opening, the structural failure rate of this smart door lock itself is also very high.
Failure rate
The price of smart door locks is not low, there are various brands on the market, the lowest are hundreds of yuan, and the big brands are thousands of yuan, but this does not affect its failure.
The failure rate is surprisingly high, the most common is the battery problem, some door locks are made of more durable lithium batteries, and some are used with common No. 5 batteries or No. 7 batteries.
If you happen to run out of battery when you go home one day, this is another big problem, and it is not as simple as spending money to find a locksmith.
In addition to the battery problem, there will also be problems with other components, such as flashing lights, fingerprint failure, etc., and there are even cases where there is power but there is no way to open the door.
Someone shared the problem of their smart door lock on the Internet, obviously there is electricity, and the fingerprint and password are in good condition, but the door lock just can't be opened.
Contacted the after-sales service of this door lock, but the after-sales sentence made the owner very helpless, but the after-sales said that they must be opened to repair, isn't this just nonsense?
The fingerprint lock is faulty and cannot open the door, and the owner must first open the door before after-sales maintenance, who will dare to use the door lock in the future, which also leads to the man's family of five can only "wander the street".
Whether it is a big brand door lock or a small brand door lock, there will be failures, but the big brand will give a perfect after-sales service.
Many people see such after-sales service and choose to place orders, but they don't know the reason behind only replacing and not repairing.
The main reason is that the maintenance cost of these small brands of smart door locks is too high, and their products are basically assembled from various parts, if there is a customer's door lock broken, they are likely to not be able to find this supplier who supplies parts.
After-sales maintenance costs are troublesome
For a smart door lock of thousands of yuan, if the after-sales period has passed, the maintenance cost of replacing accessories is a large expense.
Mechanical locks and smart door locks at the same price, whether it is service life or security, smart door locks cannot replace mechanical locks.
Aside from the failure of the smart door lock itself, some external reasons may also have a big impact.
For example, due to weather reasons, if the temperature difference between room temperature and outside is large, the water droplets caused by it fall on the panel of the smart door lock, which can easily cause the circuit board to fail.
The most obvious is the "back to the south" weather in some areas of the south, and many friends must have a deep impression of it.
Once this electronic device is damp and fails to open the door several times, it will lock itself, and it can basically announce that it can't go back to the house, and in this case, you can only ask a locksmith.
This kind of high-tech electronic equipment cannot be blindly denied, nor can it be blindly touted, and there are advantages and disadvantages. Technology is driving the progress of our times, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, because there are too many cases of "overturning" such as smart door locks, which has led to it being sought after from the very beginning and then falling off the altar.
There are many people who change back from smart door locks to mechanical locks, and the reasons can be imagined.
Smart door locks are not unreliable, if you want to choose to buy smart door locks, it is recommended to choose some big brands, so that even if there is a failure, you can contact the after-sales service for the first time.
I don't know what you think about smart door locks? Do you think it can replace mechanical locks in the future? Welcome to discuss!