Xiaomi recently launched a new Automatic Smart Door Lock with a fingerprint sensor in China. Today, it’s official Smart Life Weibo account has shared a poster of a new Smart Door Lock Pro. And looks like it has front cameras.
The Poster on Weibo(via MyDrivers) reads Xiaomi Smart Door Lock Pro new product will debut on November 4(Translated). In the poster, you can see two camera sensors on the front side of the lock. Besides, these are probably a couple of camera sensors to recognize the face and enable authentication. However, the render shows only a portion of the lock. And hence, we can’t figure out the position and its accessibility just yet. Also, the poster has a slogan,” the front lock is not in place, one step is in place”(Google Translated).
This suggests non-contact authentication and further strengthens the Facial Recognition feature hint on the new Xiaomi Smart Door Lock Pro. At a time when social distancing is in place, touching objects is risky and hence, we feel facial recognition would be the best bet. And, facial recognition in Door lock also has other useful features. These include burglary and stranger detection, lock picking, triggering the alarm etc. That said, the new Door Lock Pro also has an electronic Bell option that is found on its other models.
Having said that, this is not the first Smart Door Lock with authentication from the company. Back in 2018, Xiaomi Mijia launched a Smart Door Lock with 3D fingerprint, NFC, and more. In 2020, it came up with a budget Smart Lock E that had close to six authentication methods.
It’s great to see Xiaomi evolving from one authentication method to the other and being relevant to the current trend. Anyway, let’s wait and see what other features does Xiaomi brings with the Facial Recognition Door Lock on Wednesday.
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