Building a brand ecology is Xiaomi's main direction, smart home as an important part of it, Xiaomi also has a lot of products launched, fingerprint locks are included. Entering the fingerprint lock industry, Xiaomi adopts the ecological chain and OEM mode. Initially, Xiaomi cooperated with Huitailong, as a traditional lock brand, Huitailong's quality is guaranteed, but it started late in the field of fingerprint locks, and the development momentum is insufficient, and the cooperation between the two has not lasted long. Later, through its Xiaomi ecological chain, Xiaomi handed over the upstream OEM to Luke and Lumi, which are in full swing.
Xiaomi has entered the fingerprint lock market with consistent cost-effective characteristics, with good product design and quite complete smart home system, as well as strong brand influence, while the core supply chain does not fall behind peers. Although it has not been in the fingerprint lock industry for a long time, it has quickly become the head of sales under multiple factors, and its influence in the industry is quite high.
Xiaomi has launched more than 10 smart fingerprint locks, after recent years of upgrading, there are currently three handles and six automatic push-pull types are still in production and sales, the price is mostly concentrated in 1000-2500 yuan, there is a strong competitiveness in the fingerprint lock market, and it does not live up to the title of "price butcher". At the same time, all of Xiaomi's fingerprint locks can be connected to the Mi Home platform, providing a wealth of options for building whole-house intelligence.
Xiaomi's current three hand-held models on sale are E10, E20WiFi version and E20 cat's eye version, although it uses a domestic semiconductor fingerprint sensor, but with the blessing of the Swedish PRECISE fingerprint algorithm, the recognition process is quite smooth. E10 is the most basic model of Xiaomi fingerprint lock, except for the common unlocking mode, there is no other functional design, suitable for novices to try first. E20 series focuses on upgrading the networking scheme, supporting WiFi and Bluetooth two modes, reducing the threshold for the use of smart home, even if it is not equipped with a Bluetooth gateway or Xiaoai speaker, it does not delay the door lock to achieve remote viewing through WiFi. Among them, the E20 cat's eye version also has a built-in 2.3 million pixels, 172° wide-angle camera, which is far from the low-end handle-type fingerprint lock.
Fully automatic locks include smart door lock 2 series, M20 series and face recognition series. The smart door lock 2 series adopts Xiaomi's new generation of self-developed lock body, and the sound of opening and closing the door is reduced by 12-13dB compared with the previous generation of lock body, and the noise reduction effect is remarkable; A finger vein version is available in the series, which is convenient for the elderly and children with fingerprint wear or lightness. The M20 series has optimized the appearance, by changing the grip part to a "concave" shape, and can freely define the grip direction in combination with the opening and closing direction of the door, avoiding the danger of fully automatic push-pull lock clamping; Its follow-up new products have also added cat's eye, face recognition, indoor screen and other configurations, which is currently Xiaomi's most functional series.
The face recognition series is in a more awkward situation. The first released face recognition X, integrated face recognition and remote peephole, is also equipped with AMOLED interactive display, which is an absolute "god-level" product from the hardware point of view. But in fact, its face recognition module is developed by Lumi itself, and its maturity is debatable; AMOLED screen looks cool, but has no actual use value; The initial price of 3299 yuan also made Xiaomi, which is cost-effective, "overturned". So a year later, Xiaomi returned with a "simplified version" of face recognition smart door locks, retaining the advantages of face recognition, cutting off cat's eye, NFC unlocking, AMOLED screen, access to Homekit platform and other functions, and now the price has also dropped to about 1500-1900 yuan, but compared with other similar products that only have face recognition, the price is still high.
