Devices that allow you to open the door or control access from your mobile phone.
People have been talking about the smart home for years, but the reality is that in some aspects technology is entering homes and making certain tasks like cleaning or cooking easier. In others, such as the entrance to the home, a more attractive market is starting to appear where consumers, especially younger people, or owners of vacation rental apartments are a big target.
These are smart locks, devices that are usually installed on the doorknob inside the home without much hassle, allowing users to access the home or lock the lock directly from their mobile phone. Ideal for users who don’t want to carry or forget keys, and for apartments with a wide variety of people entering, such as Airbnbs.
This growing and highly attractive market will reach a size of USD 4.98 billion by 2028Double what is estimated by 2023. In Europe, especially Spain, move Definitely the most popular smart lock company. The company, founded in 2014 in Graz (Austria) by brothers Martin Pansy (CEO) and Jürgen Pansy (Innovation Director), last week presented its fourth-generation smart boot in our country, the world’s first integrated with Mater. To understand it better: in smart home each company has its own ecosystem and its products connect with many others depending on their commercial agreements. Mater is a unified standard for smart devices that ensures interoperability of home products rather than different standards. That means you can use the TV to open a door, turn on a light bulb, or turn on the stove, regardless of whether each thing belongs to a different company. More than 600 companies in the smart home industry support Mater, including players like Apple, Google and Amazon.
With this announcement, Nuki goes a step further with its smart lock, turning the door into another element of the connected home. With this lock you can open or close the door remotely from your phone. Coming home with your hands full is solved by automatically unlocking with access (detects the phone if specified), or allowing you to check the door is closed remotely.
The biggest drawback is the battery, as this device lasts for about 6 months before the device needs to be charged. And installation? In principle it is simple and can be done by any user, but it is necessary to check the compatibility of the locks or to buy adapters. It costs 169 In the simplest version.
This week, another smart lock company, Teddy, plans to hold an event in Spain to promote its devices. Until now, this company of Polish origin had mostly commercial weight in our country, operating through an important network of vacation rental houses and locksmiths. But it wants to carve out a place for itself in homes, and that’s why it’s coming forward now Teddy CoA smart lock that installs in less than three minutes.
Like the Nuki, this device takes up very little space, allows you to open the door from your phone or nearby, and send a link so a guest can open the front door from their phone. In particular, Teddy Go is compatible with systems such as Google or Amazon, but not with Apple, for which the company recommends installing its advanced lock, Teddy Pro. Another detail to take into account with the Go model is that it runs on battery power. , so it lasts for 4 to 6 months. It sells for 149 euros.
Yale is the third leading company in the smart lock consumer space. This American company proposes Linus Smart Look, It, like the previous one, allows you to lock and unlock the door remotely without a key, automatically lock and unlock the door, send virtual keys to guests, and check the status and operation of the door. If the cylinder is compatible, installation takes less than three minutes and is battery-powered, they say. It costs 165 euros
