In recent years, it is not difficult to find that more and more families use smart locks. Compared with traditional door locks, smart door locks can completely explode the former in many dimensions such as convenience and safety. It is predicted that in the near future, smart lock products will completely eliminate traditional door locks and become as popular as smart phones.
At this stage, the smart lock products on the market are dazzling and endless, so what should a good smart lock look like? Today, Xiao Bian received a TCL IoT smart lock K6V (hereinafter referred to as TCL K6V), which may serve as a reference for us.
As we all know, TCL, as a big country brand, has reached its peak in the field of home appliances such as TV and air ice washing. In recent years, it has continuously expanded its business and products and started to exert its strength in the field of AI×loT. This TCL K6V came into being under this premise.
Simple and quality appearance and industrial design
Let’s look at the front first The overall fuselage of TCL K6V is made of aviation grade aluminum alloy, made of special PC material, and polished through multiple processes, which can ensure that the fuselage does not change color, is more wear-resistant, resistant to damp heat and high temperature. The addition of IML wire drawing process effectively improves the texture of the product, and no fingerprints are left after repeated touching. The whole appearance is simple and elegant, seamless, and the touch is comfortable and delicate, which reflects TCL’s meticulous attitude in industrial design and workmanship.
TCL K6V is a standard 12-bit keyboard, and the No.0 key has the function of doorbell, with sensitive response speed and high accuracy. The radian of the door handle can fit the palm well, the length of the handle and the position of the fingerprint recognition area are very convenient, and the damping of unlocking is just right.
Let’s look at the back, which is consistent with the style of the front. There is a manual lock knob and an anti-cat-eye paddle switch below. After the door is locked manually in the house, the outside cannot be opened; Anti-cat eye design can prevent children and pets from opening by mistake and criminals from unlocking from the inside with cat eyes; These two designs undoubtedly greatly improve the safety of users’ homes.
Open the back cover, you can see that TCL K6V is powered by four 5th batteries, although there are only four batteries. This complimentary battery has a huge capacity and is a rechargeable battery. The official claim is that it can meet the battery life of 10-12 months, which is very durable. In the case of insufficient power, users can charge the battery at any time by using external charging treasure and other equipment.
At present, Xiaobian still uses traditional door locks at home. When going out, he is always used to pulling out the key to lock the door. On TCL K6V, you only need to hold the handle to lock it, which is simply not too convenient.
(Move Figure 0 to lift the lock)
Diversified unlocking methods, covering most use scenarios.
There are as many as six unlocking methods for TCL K6V, namely fingerprint, password, card, APP authorization, temporary password and key. Next, Xiaobian will experience these unlocking methods respectively.
The first is fingerprint unlocking. It can be seen that the whole fingerprint unlocking process of TCL K6V is completed in one go, with large fingerprint recognition area and very rapid response, which is also the most recommended unlocking method for Xiaobian. In order to test the success rate of fingerprint unlocking in some extreme environments, Xiaobian even specially sprayed water on the door handle to simulate fingerprint unlocking in extreme humidity, and the result was no pressure. Through reading the instructions, Xiao Bian learned that TCL K6V’s unlocking fingerprints can be entered into 100 pieces, even if each finger of each family member is recorded, it will not be exhausted.
(Moving Figure 1 Fingerprint Open)
(Move Figure 2 to open the fingerprint)
Let’s look at the password unlocking. Since TCL K6V does not allow the password to be set too simply, Xiaobian will temporarily set it to 833979 for everyone to demonstrate. After lighting the keyboard, enter the numeric password and press the # key to confirm. The response of the key and the speed of unlocking are also very fast. If you enter the wrong password for five times in a row, TCL K6V will be locked for 90 seconds to prevent someone from guessing the password through trial and error.
(Moving Figure 3 Password Unlocking)
In addition to the conventional password unlocking, TCL K6V also supports "virtual password" unlocking. Xiaobian can enter several numbers (XXXX833979XXXX) before and after the correct password 833979, which can also unlock the lock smoothly. This function can prevent people from peeping around when unlocking, so that people with ulterior motives can’t guess the correct digital password, which greatly improves the security.
(Move Figure 4 Virtual Password)
Xiaobian thinks that the convenience of card unlocking is second only to fingerprint unlocking. Just swipe the secret key in the sensing area and it will open with a whoosh. Compared with the traditional key, the key card is much lighter and smaller. Even if it is accidentally lost, the authority of this card can be deleted in TCL K6V to ensure safety.
(Figure 5: Magnetic Card Unlocking)
Of course, the traditional mechanical key unlocking TCL K6V is also supported. It can be opened by twisting the key, which is no different from the traditional door lock. With the addition of the traditional unlocking method, TCL K6V can be used normally under special circumstances such as complete battery exhaustion.
(Move Figure 6 to unlock the key)
In addition, TCL K6V can also realize remote unlocking and temporary password unlocking through the "TCL Smart Home" APP. Remote unlocking means that when someone rings the doorbell, the mobile phone will receive a prompt of "someone asks to open the door". Just click OK and the door lock will be opened. The unlocking method can be used to remotely unlock the takeaway brother, visiting relatives and friends when there is no one at home.
Temporary password unlocking is to generate a temporary six-digit password, which can be set to two modes: "one-time password" and "valid period unlocking password", which is no different from ordinary password unlocking, except that this string of digital passwords automatically becomes invalid after being entered once, or it can be set to automatically become invalid after being valid for a certain period of time.
The six unlocking methods of TCL K6V basically cover all kinds of use scenarios that we can think of, which can bring users a more convenient and flexible experience.
The highest level of security protection
After TCL K6V is bound to TCL Smart Home APP, it can not only be linked with other smart devices in the home, but also check the usage log of the door lock at any time. At some point, a user unlocks the lock with a fingerprint, unlocks it with a password card, and someone rings the doorbell. No matter when and where Xiaobian is, he can know the status of the door lock like the back of his hand.
There are three kinds of safety levels of lock core ABC (from low to high). TCL K6V adopts the C-class lock core with the highest safety level, and it takes more than four and a half hours for a professional locksmith to open it. Moreover, this lock core is made of pure copper, and its structure runs through the lock body panel. Even if the panel is damaged by violence, the lock core is still firm and rock-solid.
Not only that, TCL K6V has to undergo six-dimensional quality control tests before leaving the factory, including 200,000 fingerprint head durable click tests, 48-hour fingerprint head sweat resistance tests, 200,000 hand pressure tests, 96-hour surface salt spray tests, -20℃-65℃ temperature resistance tests, 8,000 static pressure panel strength tests, etc., and it has been tested by the Security and Police Electronic Product Quality Testing Center of the Ministry of Public Security and certified by authoritative organizations, and its quality is naturally reliable.
summary
TCL K6V, a product, abandons the gaudy design and spends most of the cost on quality and safety. On the occasion of the new ecology of IoT smart home, TCL still creates new surprises for the industry and users. And this TCL K6V is also very advantageous in terms of price. The price of less than 1,000 yuan allows more families to use smart locks with beautiful value, wisdom, convenience and security as soon as possible. If you let Xiaobian sum up this product in one word, it is "really fragrant"!