With the surge of Internet of things and smart home, the concept of intelligent life has gradually entered people's lives. In the smart home system, smart door locks have unique application scenarios and integrated spaces. With the wave of smart home industry, the development of smart door locks is amazing. Organizational data show that in 2016 China's lock industry output value reached 80 billion, of which the total output value of intelligent door locks will reach 8 billion, an annual growth rate of more than 40%. By 2017, the output value of intelligent door locks will exceed 10 billion yuan, and become the important landing point of smart home.

Faced with this huge market cake, whether it is traditional mechanical lock manufacturers, or smart home, smart hardware enterprises are eager to see, many entrepreneurs have flocked in. There were only a few dozen smart lock brands on the market in 2015, and nearly a thousand smart lock brands broke out in 2016, which shows the popularity of the industry.

The rise of intelligent door lock is the result of the old and new door lock industry. First of all, the lock is the core component of family security. In most apartment-style rooms in China, intelligent door lock bears the responsibility of family security and is an important part of family security.

Intelligent door lock with buzzer alarm, visual intercom and other functions, but also through cloud technology to control the door lock, to achieve remote view of the state of the lock, encounter violent breaking can also be remote warning and alarm, these functions are not mechanical lock. Smart door lock merchants also seize the rigid demand for home safety, to "more secure than mechanical locks" as the main selling point for publicity.

Apart from safety, convenience is another highlight of smart door locks. Intelligent lock is more intelligent in user identification, security and management. In addition to keys, it can also be opened by password, fingerprint, iris recognition and other technologies. It is more convenient. At the same time, it avoids the embarrassment of being locked out of the door without the key. In addition, in such markets as apartments and hotels, smart door locks can also help businesses to provide management convenience.

Importantly, the intelligent door lock is the entrance product of the family, and it is also an important touch node of the entire smart home system. With the smart door lock into thousands of households to form a scale effect, docking more and more community O2 O and home service, will be born a new business model, the formation of an open family life service ecosphere.

Fingerprint lock set up a dedicated offline service team to ensure "3 hours door-to-door" quick service. Unified training for installation workers. When the customer reflects the door lock problem, the background can immediately judge the nearby repairman, to ensure that within 2 hours to arrive for processing. In the early stage of the industrial explosion, the brand with more convenient and thoughtful service will undoubtedly be easily recognized by consumers, and get better brand reputation. Enterprises can even take the lead in the fierce market competition and break through the encirclement.

Of course, with the development of the industry, there will be intelligent door lock enterprises or other specialized service platforms to integrate the lock maintenance industry, so as to group unified after-sales service, so that after-sales service is no longer difficult. Manufacturers do not need to be worried about products sold to 2000km. This is a virtuous circle, and it will also be a new direction to change the after-sales service of lock industry.

Summary: the real value of the intelligent lock industry lies in its "entrance" potential on the smart home. Intelligent lock manufacturers in the future will take intelligent lock product sales, after-sales installation services as an entry point, and smart home linkage, docking O2 O services, so as to build a product, cloud security, offline O2 O services, such as intelligent door lock ecology, release the value of intelligent door lock entrance.