Is the "fingerprint lock" gradually withdrawing from Chinese families? After listening to the locksmith, I suddenly realized!

In an upscale neighborhood of the city, night is shrouded, and a young office worker hurries back to his warm home after a tired day. He stood in front of his door, carrying a heavy shopping bag in both hands, and habitually reached into his pocket to fumble for the keys. However, after a few seconds, his face turned pale, and his face was full of despair and chagrin - he had forgotten the key! The cold wind whistled and blew, and he shivered at the door, and the helplessness and anxiety in his heart came like a tide. At this moment, the neighbor to the door came leisurely, pressed his finger on the door lock lightly, "click", the door opened easily, the neighbor smiled and said hello, turned around and entered the house, leaving him in the same place with envy. This dramatic scene, presumably many people feel the same way, and it is this desire for a convenient way to open the door that makes the fingerprint lock in the market a few years ago like a prairie fire, quickly popular, and has become the first choice for many families to upgrade their door locks.

Once upon a time, the fingerprint lock instantly captured the hearts of the public with its cool sense of technology and convenient use experience. Imagine saying goodbye to cumbersome keys and having your door open at the touch of a finger. As a result, countless families have eliminated the old mechanical locks and replaced them with seemingly tall fingerprint locks, looking forward to opening a relaxed and convenient life mode. But recently, a strange phenomenon has quietly emerged: the once pampered fingerprint lock has gradually fallen out of favor in many families, and it is being used less and less frequently. What's the secret behind this? In order to solve this mystery, I specially visited a senior master who has been deeply involved in the lockpicking industry for many years.

In most people's cognition, smart locks should be more secure and reliable than traditional mechanical locks with advanced technology. However, this is not always the case. Take some affordable smart locks as an example, they may have a frightening situation when the battery is low - directly return to the initial state, the deadbolt pops out instantly, and the door opens automatically! Imagine that in the middle of the night, you are immersed in a sweet sleep, and suddenly you hear the door squeak open on its own, and at that moment, fear will surely run through your whole body like an electric current, and you will be completely sleepy. If there was no one at home at this time, wouldn't the thief be able to easily drive straight in? This potential security risk is truly terrifying. In addition, smart locks, as electronic products, inevitably face the threat of being hacked. Although the probability of such an incident is low, if it does, the consequences are unimaginable, and the family's security defense will be breached in an instant.

Everyone buys fingerprint locks, undoubtedly to get rid of the trouble of forgetting the key and enjoy a convenient life. However, reality has dealt a heavy blow to many. There are various ways to unlock fingerprint locks on the market, such as fingerprint recognition, face recognition, password unlocking, and NFC unlocking. However, these seemingly rich unlocking methods are full of problems in actual use. In the case of fingerprint recognition, if the fingers are wet on rainy days, or if the fingers are too dry in the dry winter, the recognition system will become unusually dull, no matter how much you press it, it will not help, and the user will be so anxious that the user will stomp his feet.

Face recognition is also not worry-free, in a dimly lit corridor, or when the user blushes due to sun exposure, or wears hats, glasses and other accessories, it may "turn its face and not recognize people" and resolutely refuse to open the door. Passcode unlocking and NFC unlocking are relatively stable, but they're not flawless either. The password may be misentered, the NFC card may be demagnetized, and the elderly and children at home may forget the password or lose the card due to poor memory, which will eventually lead to being turned away. What's worse is that the smart lock will occasionally "lose its temper" and have a system failure, no matter what unlocking method is used at this time, it will be useless, and you can only wait for the unlock master to come to the rescue, which makes people sigh that this fingerprint lock is sometimes not as worry-free as an ordinary mechanical lock.

When buying a smart lock, many people think that it is just to buy an ordinary door lock and choose at will. However, when I bought it and installed it at home, I found that the doorway was far beyond imagination. Some smart locks do not support doors with heaven and earth hooks, and heaven and earth hooks, as an important part of the old security door, can greatly enhance the firmness of the door. If you forcibly install an incompatible smart lock on a door with a heaven and earth hook, it will cause many problems, such as the deadbolt is stuck, unable to pop up or retract normally, which not only affects the user experience, but also may cause damage to the door lock and door body. In addition, a mismatch between the door and the smart lock can also leave a safety hazard, which may be easier for a thief to pick the door. Therefore, before buying a smart lock, it is important to understand the situation of your door in detail, so as not to spend money on sin.

In order to attract consumers, today's smart locks have increasingly many functions, and various "black technology" and "futuristic" slogans are overwhelming. For example, the linger capture feature claims to automatically capture a photo and send it to a mobile phone when someone stays at the door for a long time, and the facial recognition feature claims to be able to recognize the door opening in seconds. However, the actual use effect is not satisfactory. Taking the stay capture function as an example, if you live in a densely populated community, people come and go in the aisle, every time someone passes by, the smart lock will "click" to capture, and the mobile phone message prompt sound comes and goes, which not only consumes power, but also makes people upset. The face recognition function is far from being as magical as advertised, and it is difficult to identify if the light and angle change slightly, and the recognition time is sometimes too long, and it is not as fast as entering the password directly. In addition, some smart locks advertise linkage functions with other smart devices, such as automatically turning on the lights when opening the door, turning on the air conditioner, etc., which are complicated to set up in actual operation, and the connection stability is poor, and they are left idle after a few uses. These seemingly attractive features not only fail to bring convenience, but increase the cost and risk of failure, which really outweighs the benefits.

Fingerprint locks from the once highly sought after to now gradually cold, this process profoundly reflects that in the era of rapid development of science and technology, we should pay more attention to the safety, stability and practicality of products while pursuing convenience. If you're thinking about installing a smart lock, or if you've already installed it but you're experiencing problems, you may want to refer to the above. When choosing a smart lock, give preference to semi-automatic smart locks, which have more guaranteed stability and durability and lower power consumption. At the same time, focus on the practicality of basic functions, such as fingerprints, passwords, and mechanical key unlocking, and abandon those flashy functions. The rise and fall of fingerprint locks has sounded the alarm for us, allowing us to be more rational and cautious on the road of embracing technology.

Source: Hecheng Evening News