External worry, why does fingerprint lock survive and develop?

HC Security Network News recent years, as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, mobile Internet and the rapid development of various recognition technology, and the gradual improvement of people's living standards, the sudden emergence of smart home industry. At the single product level, following smart routers, smart TVs, and intelligent audio, smart locks, especially fingerprint locks, have become the new darling of the industry's high hopes.

Because everyone generally believes that door locks as the family's first security line is the most rigid product in smart homes. The emergence of smart locks has brought great hope to smart home enterprises. Smart home enterprises are eager for smart door locks. Become an entry-level product for smart homes. So, can smart door locks carry the hope of smart home enterprises? Xiaobian today chooses to develop the most widely used fingerprint locks. What kind of problems are there in the market development of smart locks? In Xiaobian's view, the problems faced by the fingerprint lock market can be divided into internal and external troubles. Let us first talk about external problems.

Foreign problems in the development of fingerprint lock market

In Xiaobian's view, the external problems faced by fingerprint locks are mainly divided into two levels. The following one analysis:

I. External competition

External competition is mainly reflected in the competition between traditional locks such as fingerprint locks and mechanical locks. We can find out through a set of data.

The data shows that the development of smart door locks has been very rapid in recent years. According to incomplete statistics, in 2012, smart door locks accounted for less than 1% of the lock market. Since 2014, market share has increased substantially. But it only ends here. Although our smart lock market has achieved rapid development in recent years, compared with the performance of Japan, South Korea and Europe and America smart locks in the civilian lock market, China’s smart lock market share is still low. The overall penetration rate of the domestic smart lock market is only 2%, while South Korea has reached 80%. It is estimated that by 2020, the penetration rate of China's smart lock market will only reach 19.75%, and the road ahead is still long.

And mentioned above is the development of the overall smart lock, which includes fingerprint locks, face recognition locks, iris recognition locks, finger vein recognition locks, etc. and other locks. Although fingerprint locks occupy a large share in the smart lock market, they are far behind in the competition with mechanical locks. The overall penetration rate of the domestic smart lock market is 2%. In other words, the market share of traditional locks such as mechanical locks exceeds 98%. For fingerprint locks, such market share comparisons are very different.

Second, the issue of recognition from consumers

In addition to competition from the outside, the more serious problem facing fingerprint locks is the issue of consumer acceptance. Or in essence, the root cause of poor external competition in the fingerprint lock market is still not recognized by consumers.

How much does this do not recognize? We still use data to illustrate. The data shows that 20.1% of consumers have not heard of smart locks, and 64.4% of consumers have heard of smart locks or have touched smart locks in some cases. 8.4% of consumers are worried about the remote security of smart locks, 17% of consumers worry that electronic products are easily damaged, 37.2% of consumers are too expensive, and 37.4% of consumers do not plan to replace smart locks for other reasons. We can see that due to consumer concerns or disapproval of smart lock remote security, durability, price, etc., most consumers are very less willing to replace mechanical locks with smart locks. What's more, 20% of consumers have never heard of smart locks, which means that the road to market education is still growing.

The internal worry of the development of fingerprint lock market

In fact, the external troubles in the above are not so much the external problems of fingerprint locks, but rather the external troubles of smart locks. This is the market environment faced by the smart lock market. It is not only the fingerprint lock, but the internal worry is the fingerprint lock. Competition issues.

First, the rise of other biometric locks

We all know that fingerprint recognition technology is the most commonly used biometric technology, and it is also the most mature biometric technology. Moreover, fingerprint recognition technology has very obvious advantages, such as:

1. Practicality: The fingerprint is easy to collect and use, and the fingerprint head is small.

2, good stability: fingerprint identification technology is more mature, after long-term market inspection, and the fingerprint itself is unique and permanent, so fingerprint identification is relatively stable and reliable.

3, fingerprint identification products cost-effective: fingerprint collection head is more miniaturized, and the price is low.

But its shortcomings are equally clear:

1, the environment requirements are very high, sensitive to the humidity, cleanliness, etc. of the fingers, dirty, oil, water will not be able to identify or affect the results of the identification.

2. Some people or certain groups have fewer fingerprints or even fingerprints.

3. It is difficult to identify low-quality fingerprints such as peeling and scratches, and the recognition rate is low.

4. Each time the fingerprint is used, the fingerprint of the user is left on the fingerprint collection head, and these fingerprint traces have the possibility of being used to copy the fingerprint.

For humans, if there are shortcomings, then there will be new products to replace them. With the emergence of biometrics in the commercial field, more and more biometric technology devices or functions have been applied, so face recognition locks, iris recognition smart locks, and vein recognition smart locks have gradually emerged in the field of smart locks. Wait. The emergence of these new smart locks has become a strong competitor for fingerprint locks.

Second, the fingerprint lock itself's defect

The second internal worry of the fingerprint lock is the defect of the fingerprint lock itself. The first is fingerprint recognition of natural defects, such as the shortcomings mentioned above, which leads to partial fingerprint locks in different skin conditions, humidity, fingerprint authentication certification effect is very different.

In addition to natural biometric defects, fingerprint locks also have certain problems in terms of structure, endurance, and so on. Power consumption is a major problem that plagues the development of fingerprint locks. At present, the power supply of the fingerprint lock is generally a dry battery. The long standby time is usually about 1 year, a few months or even shorter, so the endurance pain point is a bottleneck problem to be solved.

In addition to the above two problems, there is still a problem with the fingerprint lock, which is the problem of remote security. For the user, if there is no remote function, then the intelligence of the fingerprint lock is absolutely very limited. However, if there is a remote function, the IT industry has a well-known saying: where the network can reach, there are network security issues. Part of the door lock manufacturer's back-end server stores the key information that matches the door lock. Once the door lock is cracked, the hacker can even attack the manufacturer's server in reverse. This is a very big security risk. Of course, this is not just a fingerprint lock but a problem with all biometric locks.

HC Security Security Network Summary

Although Xiaobian does believe that the development of the fingerprint lock market does face a lot of internal and external problems, this does not mean that Xiaobian is not optimistic about the future development of the fingerprint lock market, or sing the fingerprint lock. Because fingerprint locks do have huge market potential, the data is still spoken: market research firm MarketsAndMarkets released a report that the global smart home market will reach $122 billion in 2022 and the average annual growth rate for 2016-2022 is 14%. According to relevant data analysis, by 2018, the size of China's smart home market will reach 180 billion yuan. However, there is market potential, and there are internal and external problems. Only a good product with a good business can truly survive and develop. This is the unchanging truth.

Editor in charge: Zhong Juanjuan