Home locks show an intelligent trend

With the increase in industry demand, the smart lock market has great potential. With the improvement of people's living standards and improvement of housing conditions, people have a higher pursuit of the safety, convenience, and comfort of the home environment. Fingerprint door locks will inevitably become the leader in the lock market. At present, China's market for locks mainly mechanical locks, mechanical locks are mainly spherical door locks, handle door locks and mortise locks. The mortice lock is superior to other door locks in anti-theft performance, applicable range, and so on, so it can be more. However, we must pay attention to the level of demand for door locks in urban and rural households and treat them differently.

With the improvement of home and office conditions and the increase in commercial housing, office furniture and office locks have become the new darling, and the market for furniture and office locks is increasing. At present, all kinds of drawer locks, wardrobe locks, luggage locks, cabinet locks, stationery cabinet locks, cam locks, interlocking locks, bathroom locks, safe locks and other furniture, office locks are in great demand. These locks are closely related to the real estate, furniture, property management and other industries, more and more tricks, higher and higher quality requirements.

With the continuous deepening of China's opening to the outside world, high-end construction has developed rapidly and the prospects of the premium lock market are optimistic. China's lock industry investment in high-tech locks is increasing year by year, and the market demand for high-end locks has also increased year by year. In particular, the demand for high-grade locks in developed countries is extremely strong. China's strong industry in the lock industry is seizing the opportunity to enter the high-end lock market in a timely manner. Shenzhen Tianfang Technology Co., Ltd. independently researched and developed patented technologies such as “Electro-Mechanical Switching Device”, “Non-Hole Lock”, “Universal Swap” and other patented technologies, prompting the first universal interchangeability (free matching of German Lock, Subotico, and King Forces, Xiaoshuai, Baodean, Turkey Karel and other mechanical locks) The birth of fingerprint locks, and the world's largest lock giant ASSAABLOY Group to establish a strategic cooperative relationship, to become its designated supplier in China; with the domestic security door first The brand Panpan Group establishes strategic partnerships and more. Other domestic lock companies have also developed such as IC card electronic door locks, electronic code locks, encrypted magnetic card door locks, Lou apartment intercom alarm system, valve locks and so on. Other companies are developing fingerprint locks. Because the high-end locks have high technical content, more prominent humanity and individualized features, the profits of the products are also relatively high. In addition, with the rapid replacement of lock products, high-end locks will gradually become the mainstream of locks.

The lock market favors high-end smart locks. At present, China's lock industry has annual sales of about 40 billion yuan and output of 1.9 billion. According to customs statistics, the average annual export growth rate of the lock industry in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period reached 31%, which is twice the average growth rate of the hardware industry. In the first half of 2011, the value of locks exports was 2.082 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 15.9% year-on-year. Based on this calculation, the annual export value was about 4.6 billion U.S. dollars; the import value of locks was 273 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 16.2% year-on-year. It will reach 550 million U.S. dollars.

The increase in the import volume of the lock industry and the growing demand for high-end products in the domestic market have enabled more and more international brands to enter the Chinese market, which will bring enormous challenges to domestic companies. However, there is still a considerable gap between the overall level of processing equipment in China's lock industry and the international advanced level. Middle-to-low-grade mechanical locks are still the main products, and there is a lack of high-level scientific and technological talents and management talents, and the ability of enterprises to resist risks is insufficient. To this end, China's lock-making enterprises should actively adopt new processes, new materials, new technologies, and new equipment to improve the overall level of the industry. We must pay attention to product quality, make greater efforts in improving the management level of enterprises, eliminating outdated production processes, and improving the quality of employees, and use hard products to meet the challenges.

At present, smart locks with high technological and scientific content, including password locks, IC card locks, fingerprint locks, etc., have gradually gained the recognition of high-end consumption in the market due to their unique convenience and gradual maturity of technology. And made a place.

Fingerprint locks using biometrics technology have even broader market prospects due to fingerprints' uniqueness, non-replicability, portability, forgetfulness, and loss-free features.

Looking at China's lock industry, the German fingerprint lock belongs to the revival force. The surface of the product inherits the simple plan of Germany's post Bauhaus style. With the strong skills and good production from Germany, the brand has the upper hand. The representative brand is DESSMANN (China). A few years ago, the method of brushing fingerprints became popular in Germany. Through the further development and application of skills, Germany's handling of fingerprint identification skills has been quite mature.

In the lock market, German locks are specifically designed for the development and use of high-end smart locks. In terms of skills, such products are a combination of electronics, machines, software, optics, and biological identification. The highly user-friendly human-machine dialogue interface is therefore the greatest feature of German-style locks represented by DESSMANN (China). The user can quickly find out information on how to use the product by manipulating the human-machine dialogue interface with a large LCD screen.

Conclusion:

On the whole, China's lock industry is lagging behind advanced foreign technologies, and lock manufacturers are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises. The low-level redundant construction is serious. Some small-sized enterprises are behind in the purely mechanical manufacturing stage. They are still far away from the new type of locks that integrate light, machine and electricity. This has brought difficulties to the whole lock-making industry. The high open rate of locks and the lack of prevention also caused dissatisfaction among many consumers.

Innovations in the lock industry require companies to change their concepts, change ideas based on imitation, master independent technologies, increase investment in equipment, technology, R&D, and patent innovation, increase product technology content, and increase the degree of product differentiation; companies should pay attention to Promote brand awareness and implement brand strategy, so as to change their position, grab high-end market share, and promote the healthy and rapid development of the industry. Many lock companies are in the process of “scouring the first barrel of gold” and have no time to care about nurturing brands. The time is short and the starting point is low. Compared with foreign brands that have a hundred years of history, young Chinese brands naturally have “insufficient confidence”.