Just a day after Xiaomi announced the crowdfunding for a new coffee machine in China, the company has today announced that it will be crowdfunding its first smart door, dubbed as Xiaobai Wisdom Gate H1.
During the crowdfunding campaign, the smart door will be available for 3,999 yuan (~$570) but the actual retail price is set at 4,999 yuan (~$713). There’s a battery-powered version as well, which costs 4,399 yuan (~$627). Xiaomi is also offering a free installation service worth 1,040 yuan (~$148).
The newly unveiled Xiaobai Wisdom Door H1 is 2050mm high and 960mm wide. It has a traditional door design, which has two doors — left and right, and either can be open at a time or both simultaneously.
It is said that the door is made of up Stainless Steep through the precision casting process and comes with built-in reinforced iron bone. The door has a thickness of 95mm and weighs around 85 kilograms.
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The interior is filled with sound-absorbing honeycomb panels, says the company. There’s also a 10-inch IPS touch-screen panel equipped with an HD 1080p camera sensor that supports 150-degree wide-angle, infrared night vision, and Xiaomi facial recognition algorithm to identify the person and determine age, gender, and other information.
As for unlocking the door, along with the standard lock, it also supports fingerprint-based unlocking, which the company claim has a pass rate of 99.7 percent. Xiaomi claims that to make this product, the company went through 15 months of careful research and development process, along with 300,000 tests, and filed 28 product patents.
Similar to most other smart home products from Xiaomi, this one too can be easily controlled using the company’s Mi Home application.
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