Smart door locks have gradually replaced mechanical locks, becoming an essential part of people’s daily lives, also for people’s home life has brought more convenient and intelligent experience and interaction.
The use of smart door locks allow people to get rid of the key bondage, when you go out no longer have to worry about whether the key has been carried. When you go home, you no need to worry about losing your keys and being turned away. In short, since the installation of smart door locks, life has become more convenient.
On other hand, the smart door lock is an important part of the smart home, smart lock can not only be linked to the cell phone by networking, remote visual intercom with visitors through the cell phone, monitoring the situation in front of the door, but also with other smart home products at home, such as TVs, smart panels, air conditioners, lighting, smart curtains, etc. linkage to achieve the opening of the door lights automatically, curtains automatically open or close, music Automatic sound and other intelligent scenes.
So, the question is smart locks are so smart, why is also reserved for the mechanical lock cylinder and equipped with a mechanical key? After all, many people has been a long time without the habit of carrying keys out since the installation of smart locks, , for fingerprints, faces, finger veins, passwords and other electronic keys are more convenient to use, and not easy to lose and to be copied, so that people do not want to return to the habits of using mechanical keys to open the door
In fact, equipped with a mechanical lock key is caused by a number of factors.
- Some national standards and related industry standards require that the smart lock shall be reserved for emergency opening methods. For example, in 2007, The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China issued the public security industry standard “fingerprint security lock general technical conditions” (GA701-2007), which states that the smart lock must have an emergency opening function, the mechanical lock should meet the requirements of GA/T73-1994 in the A level.
Therefore, from the perspective of the relevant standards, smart locks equipped with mechanical keys is necessary. Of course, the mechanical emergency opening method is not necessarily only mechanical keys, you can also use other methods, such as mechanical pass code.
- Mechanical keys offer a reliable and fail-safe method for accessing the locked space. Unlike electronic key less entry systems, which rely on batteries or other power sources, mechanical keys will always work as long as they are functioning properly. This means that even if the electronic lock fails or the power goes out, the mechanical key can still be used to open the door.
- And smart locks may also fail, if the electronic components are damaged, in this case even the use of rechargeable batteries emergency power supply will not help, smart only through the mechanical key, mechanical code and other mechanical emergency way to open. Therefore, from the point of view of daily use, intelligent locks equipped with emergency opening method is very necessary.
- Mechanical keys can be more convenient for certain users, such as elderly or disabled individuals who may have difficulty using electronic keyless entry systems. By providing a mechanical key option, smart door locks can be made more accessible and user-friendly for a wider range of people.
Therefore, as an emergency open the mechanical key, must be kept well, it is best to put one in the car, or in the parents’ home, children’s home in case of emergency.