It is estimated that almost all human beings have experienced the pain of forgetting their keys when going out. Compared with many traditional household products, families Door lock In fact, it is a product that should be more intelligent as soon as possible. The products we experience this time are from Internet of Things Home safety brand Spotted cat The smart door lock just launched. Its main selling point is to adopt Digital password and fingerprint identification Instead of the traditional key, what will be the experience of these two digital era solutions, which have been used on mobile phones and computers, on the door lock?
Appearance and workmanship
This time we got the A200 model. The machine is packed in kraft paper boxes commonly used for electronic equipment, and there are simple parameter descriptions on the side.
The inner and outer door locks and lock cylinders are provided with thick protective layers, and the accompanying cardboard can easily locate the lock holes.
The package includes front and rear panels, lock bodies, fasteners and traditional security keys.
The stainless steel lock body is a Grade B lock with full materials.
The lock cylinder is designed as a 3+1 lock falcon, and has wiredrawing processing on the whole, which supports the anti locking function of lifting the handle.
Inside the front and rear panel components, there are openings and interfaces reserved for the intelligent part.
The battery compartment is on the top of the rear panel, which is powered by four No.5 batteries. Reset and sound switches are placed above it.
After being assembled and tested on the door panel, the black polished panel on the front of the door lock has a sense of technology and a high face value.
The digital password area is designed with touch control and backlight. Below is the fingerprint identification module as its feature.
Under special circumstances, users can still use the traditional B-level lock key at the bottom of the lock body to open the door. The right side is the contact of the emergency 9V battery. If the internal battery is dead and you forget to bring the key, you can use the 9V battery to supply power.
The door lock and door panel are tightly combined, with anti prying alarm function.
The back is square and slightly business like. The top is the battery compartment, and the bottom is the black hole and door lock reserved for the RF module. The door handle is thick and round, and the empty position after inserting the key is very small. In addition to the intelligent part, it is really a very authentic mechanical door lock.
usage method
The installation method of the machine is similar to that of a traditional door lock. You can simply install the screws according to the instructions, or even find an ordinary lock installer to complete it, so I won't repeat it here. The door lock is set through the touch keyboard and voice prompt, and the use method is similar to the traditional key phone and home phone. The setting is completed through the matching keys of different numbers and "* # key".
After startup, it can be used after completing administrator password modification, unlocking password setting and fingerprint entry. In addition to password and fingerprint unlocking, its advanced functions include virtual password, one-time password, normally open, anti pry alarm, keyboard locking, etc.:
Virtual password: If the custom password is 4 digits, you can enter a string of passwords with more than 4 digits. The lock can be unlocked as long as the numerical sequence includes the original password. Generally, it is not convenient to enter the password directly when going home with others. The virtual password can avoid the embarrassment of password exposure, and can even tell others to use the virtual password to temporarily open the door
One time password: As the name implies, the password will be invalid once the door is opened. It can be provided to workers for use during decoration or maintenance.
Anti prying alarm: there is a sensor at the joint between the door lock and the door, which can sense whether it is pried and use it to give an audible warning to scare off thieves.
These are all very useful experiences for improving the use experience. However, because there is no display, changing the password and other operations are like dialing an operator's voice phone. The operation speed and experience are not very good. Fortunately, the door lock itself does not need many things to be set, which will not have too much impact on daily use.
Fingerprint recognition for iPhone 6s
Compared with the touch password, our computer operators are more concerned about the fingerprint recognition function. The parameters of Spotted Cat's fingerprint identification module are very luxurious, with 18 * 16mm fingerprint acquisition area, image resolution of 500DPI, and 88 fingerprints. The 1: N comparison mode is adopted, and the comparison time is less than 0.3s.
The identification area and comparison time in the center exceed that of almost all mobile phones on the market, so this time we focus on the comparison of the fingerprint identification experience of Spotted Cat and iPhone 6s.
Fingerprint entry is more convenient than iPhone 6
It was very unexpected that the iPhone 6s failed here. It seems that there are two completely different fingerprint identification schemes. All mobile phones, including the iPhone 6s, need at least 10 fingerprint entries to complete.
The fingerprint entry of Spotted Cat is instantaneous and only needs to be pressed once. In addition, thanks to the huge recognition area, Spotted Cat does not need to enter the fingerprint on the side of the finger like a mobile device, and the entry experience is much better.
The number of entries is 20 times that of the iPhone 6s
Although iPhone is a mobile device famous for experience and intelligence, there are only 4-5 mobile phones in terms of the number of fingerprint entries, while Spotted Cat's fingerprint recognition module can record 88 fingerprints.
Of course, this is the difference between the positioning of different devices. After all, mobile phones are private devices, and it is enough to complete the entry of a person's common fingers (enough to add the husband/wife and children). However, the door locks not only need to identify their own people, but also need to use fingerprints for parents and nannies who come at intervals. Even if the door locks are used in the office, That huge number of entries is of great significance.
Recognition speed of iphone6s is slightly slow
The iPhone 6s has increased the area of the fingerprint recognition module. Even if you press the home button and stop immediately, it can still complete fingerprint. Even though the iPhone's screen wake-up speed and animation are slow, its recognition speed still ranks first among mobile phones. The Spotted Cat's recognition is slower than the iPhone 6s, but the unlocking speed is extremely fast. The speed of the door lock from touch to unlock is only a little slower than the speed of the iPhone's touch to enter the desktop, which is worthy of praise.
Directional, success rate and more humanistic design
The Spotted Cat recognition module is concave design, so it only has the difference between the front and back positions of the fingers, without the problem of finger directivity. On the iPhone, because the home key is round and has a limited area, it is not necessarily pressed; The spotted cat also benefits from the huge recognition area. Even blind touch will be based on the recognition area, which is also a cheating way to win
In terms of reliability, Spotted Cat is mainly reflected in anti-static and waterproof aspects. Officially, it supports 1500V anti-static, while the identification module is covered with a glass panel, which will not affect the safety of internal parts even if there is water in the fingers. In terms of service life, there are no mechanical parts on both sides, which can almost be ignored.
Door lock, a traditional product long overdue for intelligence
The door lock is the only way to get into the house. You have to unlock the door as many times as you go in and out of the house every day. This is a very high-frequency operation for home equipment. However, the traditional door locks, which are used so frequently and also related to the safety of the whole house property, are really not convenient and reliable.
The traditional door lock can only identify the key, but cannot identify the user's own characteristics, which doomed it to have many problems. The obvious problem is security. The physical key is equal to the opening of the whole house, but the key is easy to be stolen and copied. People with ulterior motives can easily get the key and copy it through plastic mud, but the worst case is that the thief has allocated the key to his home and given it to his teammates
Another fatal injury of traditional door locks is that they require users to carry physical keys with them. In addition to the trouble of matching keys, there are also problems of loss and safekeeping. Forgetting cups with keys has also covered many years of human history. It is strange that smart home door locks appear so late.
Users who have used smart phones should not deny that their experience, whether digital passwords or fingerprints, is far better than that of an entity key. Although there are few changes to add passwords and fingerprint unlocking, the improvement of happiness is very obvious, especially when the company's fingerprint is used to open the door and the traditional key is used at home.
Just opened smart home entrance
Many smart home products, such as smart scales, smart water cups, smart lights, and smart remote control lights, failed to make their smart functions easy to use in the first generation of products, and even many of them failed to do a good job in basic functions. Neither experience nor sales are satisfactory. In the field of smart door locks, Spotted Cat is a very early smart home brand, and the A200 experience this time is the earliest available smart door locks.
The A200 is the entrance smart door lock of Spotted Cat, and the A300 is on top of it. The function of the A300 is not improved much, mainly improving the area of fingerprint recognition area and recognition speed. The Spotted Cat official said that in the future, it will add coercion password and other improvements around digital password.
Later products will be added with Zigbee and other smart home communication protocol modules, which can be used together with apps to provide remote warning and online reminders, and use mobile phones to set passwords and functions remotely. The experience of intelligent door locks will be significantly improved.
If it is put into the Internet of Things home, its imagination space will be larger. The security camera can be installed on the door lock and linked, and the unlocking action of the intelligent door lock can also be used as a trigger signal. When the door is opened, the hall light/TV/hot water will be turned on automatically. Through the interconnection between devices, many manual operations that need to be carried out at ordinary times will be saved, and the home will become truly intelligent.
The prospect is bright and the journey is arduous
Although everyone is optimistic that smart home is the trend in the future, smart home products themselves face great competition. After all, their competitors are traditional household appliances that have been in existence for many years, including locks, curtains and other products that are not in the field of household appliances themselves. Traditional products are generally characterized by better experience and ease of mind, so smart products need to have new killer functions or better convenience, otherwise users might as well buy traditional products with more affordable prices.
Spotted Cat is a brand new brand that focuses on the development of Internet of Things home security. It has been engaged in information security services for users in the global industry for 9 years. The identification authentication and communication data encryption technologies are independently developed, including the Israeli military, Dubai police, French CIB Bank, and Japan KDDI. In addition, it has the manufacturing resources of international security giants, and has a strong hardware and technical foundation.
It is reported that the product networking function and more imagination space are currently tackling key problems in terms of function and connectivity in terms of stability and endurance, and are expected to be launched in 2016.
