With the development of the electronic information industry and the influence of foreign smart door locks, the domestic Smart Door Lock industry has gradually developed. Since the birth of my country's first civilian smart door lock in 2001, the smart door lock industry has roughly experienced the following three
development forms:
1. Foreign applications have laid the foundation for domestic development In the 1990s, the rapid development of microelectronic technology and communication technology in the United States, Italy, Germany, South Korea and Taiwan, China laid the foundation for the generation of smart door locks, and the combination lock began to move towards the practical stage. At the beginning of this century, the technology of electronic combination locks in European and American countries is approaching maturity. Electronic combination locks are widely used in intelligent access control systems. At first, safes, safes and vaults were the most used places. At first, the price and cost were high. Development and maturity, gradually replacing traditional mechanical locks. 2. Product development from single to diversified With the development of biometric technology and Bluetooth technology, the development of smart door locks has gone further. Locks developed based on biometric technology have begun to appear, and fingerprint recognition has been promoted due to the uniqueness of its biometric features. Fingerprint locks have begun to appear in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. The emergence of fingerprint locks is the second peak in the field of smart door locks. Fast, safe and convenient fingerprint locks are the first choice for door locks in European and American countries, and the maturity of technology also provides convenience for fingerprint locks. In recent years, smart door locks have achieved rapid development in China, and the gap between fingerprint lock technology and foreign countries is getting smaller and smaller. The product has developed from a single fingerprint lock to a comprehensive product category of various electronic information technologies such as password, card, Internet of Things, biometric identification, etc., and is integrating with emerging industries such as smart home.
3. Multi-player entry, branded operation becomes mainstream
The rapid development of the market has made many entrepreneurs and cross-industry giants pour into this industry. At present, there are thousands of smart door lock brands in the country, and four main camps have been formed: The first category is pure smart door lock production enterprises. The development time of such enterprises is relatively short, and the history of such enterprises is generally relatively short. Benefiting from the development of the industry, the development of enterprises is very fast, but the investment is huge, and many enterprises have not insisted on it. today. The second type of enterprise is the transformation from traditional locks to smart door lock enterprises. These types of enterprises generally have a long development history. Except for individual enterprises, such as Yajie, Juli, Jiawei and other enterprises, they are basically after 2010. The R&D and production of smart door locks started at the beginning. These companies entered the R&D of smart door locks based on their judgment on the development of the industry, and they have only begun to improve in recent years.
The third type of enterprise is an innovative Internet brand smart door lock enterprise. Its management often has rich experience in the Internet industry, and the enterprise will also have capital injection from Internet giants. Most of these enterprises are start-up enterprises. The investment in innovative technologies such as Internet of Things communication is relatively large, mainly focusing on B-end users such as hotel apartments.
The fourth type of enterprises are cross-border giants. Such enterprises have a long history, strong capital and technical capabilities, and many product lines. Smart door locks are often a small category under their many products.
