The Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E20 Wi-Fi version is now available for pre-order at a starting price of 1,099 yuan ($155). A standout feature of this new offering is the inclusion of “Wi-Fi”.

Enhanced connectivity with Wi-Fi integration and versatile unlocking methods:

The device seamlessly connects to the Mijia ecosystem without the need for an additional gateway, allowing for effortless integration with other smart home devices. You can also experience the convenience of automatic actions, such as switching the lights or the TV when you open or close the door.

The Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E20 Wi-Fi version features a sleek and conventional handle design. Unlocking is made intuitive through multiple methods, including fingerprint recognition, password entry, periodic/one-time passwords, NFC, mobile phone Bluetooth, and traditional keys.

Equipped with AI 3D fingerprint recognition technology, the smart door lock boasts an impressive 99.2% recognition rate and a swift 0.5-second recognition speed. The AI self-learning algorithm continuously refines fingerprint recognition, ensuring faster unlocking times with prolonged usage.

Additionally, built-in sensors monitor the door lock status in real time, enhancing overall safety. The device incorporates various mechanical anti-theft technologies to provide comprehensive security for your home.

The panel features an integrated smart doorbell. Pressing the doorbell activates an audible alert from the inner panel, while notifications are also sent to the Mijia APP and Xiaoai speakers.

Powered by AA batteries, the Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E20 Wi-Fi version boasts a battery life of up to 15 months. Users will receive timely reminders when the battery level drops below 10%. Additionally, the device supports Type-C emergency power supply unlocking, ensuring you’re never locked out in case of a dead battery.

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Among the Chinese tech giants, like Realme, Oppo, Huawei, none have been able to able to rival the implementation of Xiaomi’s IoT Smart Home Ecosystem, also sometimes referred to as the MIJIA ecosystem. The ecosystem includes many Smart Home IoT appliances, ranging from colour-changing LED light bulbs, security cameras, rice cookers, to even washing machines.

Xiaomi’s latest addition to its connected smart home ecosystem is the Xiaomi Wireless Bluetooth Power Switch available for 69 RMB (11 USD) in China, which could bring much more convenience to your smart home setup.

Let’s start with the design, the Xiaomi Wireless Power Switch comes in a matte white beige finish with two large rectangular buttons on the left and right.

Users are able to configure the buttons with customisable functions via the Xiaomi Home app, with functions like turning on the Bluetooth connected Mijia LED lights, turning on the Xiaomi Rice Cooker or activating Xiaoai, Xiaomi’s smart assistant integrated into its smart speakers to listen to your commands, with a press of a button from across the room.

The power switch is also configurable up to 7 functions at a time, with different methods of activation such as the single-press on the left or right button, double-press on each button, or a long-press on each button.

As for the battery, the Xiaomi Wireless Power Switch comes with an inbuilt battery which Xiaomi claims to provide up to 3 years of battery life. The 3 years of battery life was done in internal durability tests where researchers assumed that one’s daily button-pressing is 5 single-presses, 5 double-presses, and 5 long-presses.

Xiaomi mentions that they have designed the power switch for users to place it wherever they want. Whether it be a kitchen countertop, living room desk or connected to your wall, the design of the power switch will always be able to complement your surroundings.

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Xiaomi‘s Mi Home official Weibo page has released a teaser which shows that the brand will be opening its 1000th Mi Home store in China on December 6. The store will be the brand’s 1000th store in China and is located in Chengdu’s Vientiane City. Xiaomi will be offering discounts of up to 10% on some products as well as souvenirs on the launch day.

Xiaomi has its iconic Mi Home stores opened in 25 cities across China, including Haikou, Guangzhou, Suzhou and Jiaozuo, including 13 in Chongqing and 15 in Shaanxi. Currently, there are six Mi Homes in Chengdu. As of the end of 2019, the number of Mi Homes in Mainland China has exceeded 630.

The Mi Home is the official retail experience store directly operated by Xiaomi, which can provide users with services such as product sales, self-pickup, and laser engraving. In addition, Xiaomi Home can provide consumers with humanized services, including a stress-free return policy within 7 days without any reason (Xiaomi core retail stores), valet repair (Xiaomi products are delivered to the store, and the clerk will send it to the after-sales center. After repairing, send it back to the designated place), valet orders (for large repairs, you can find a clerk in the store to make an order, and the engineer makes an appointment to visit) and other services.

At the Redmi Note 9 series conference last month, Lu Weibing, Vice President of Xiaomi Group, President of China, and General Manager of Redmi Brand, said that in the coming year, every county will have a Xiaomi home and every Mi fan will have Xiaomi around his/her home.

The current Mi Homes are mainly deployed in first, second, and third-tier cities. For counties, towns, or remote areas, the number of Mi Homes is very small. Previously, Lu Weibing stated that the coverage of Mi Homes in the county-level market is less than 30%. In the future, Xiaomi plans to accelerate expansion into the county-level market. Within one year, Mi Home will cover every county in the country.

More Xiaomi homes mean that consumers will experience Xiaomi’s better and more convenient purchase or after-sales service. Sadly, there are not so many Xiaomi Home stores outside China. Xiaomi already has over 1000 service centers across 600 cities in India but the experience stores are still scanty.

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Xiaomi is best known for its electronic products, namely smartphones. But the company often dabbles with other products which are completely different from its technological backgrounds. These offshoots include bags, sneakers and even a travel suitcase which is transparent.

On November 27th, Xiaomi’s official Weibo account announced the limited edition transparent version of the Mi Suitcase. The unique travel partner arrives exclusively to certain Xiaomi Home flagship stores in seven different cities. It will be available starting from 30th November 2019 and will carry a price tag of 499 Yuan or roughly 71 US dollars.

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According to the official notes, the transparent suitcase from Xiaomi is made with urban elements in mind. What it exactly means is open to anyone’s imagination, but the unique and bold design will help it grab public and media attention. See below for more details.

Locations of Availability

• Xiaomi House Beijing China Resources Colorful City Shopping Center
• Xiaomi House Beijing Shimao Tianjie Plaza
• Xiaomi House Beijing Sanlitun Taikoo Li
• Xiaomi House Beijing Wangfujing Dongfang Xintiandi
• Xiaomi Home Beijing Science Park
• Xiaomi Home Shanghai Jing’an Joy City Flagship Store
• Xiaomi House Shanghai Oriental Pearl Store
• Xiaomi House Nanjing Jingfeng KINGMO Flagship Store
• Xiaomi House Wuhan Chuhe Hanjie Flagship Store
• Xiaomi House Chengdu IFS Store
• Xiaomi Home Chengdu Ocean Pacific Taikoo Li
• Xiaomi House Xi’an Joy City Flagship Store
• Xiaomi House Xi’an G Park Flagship Store
• Xiaomi House Shenzhen Vientiane Tiandi Flagship Store

The transparent edition has been seen before under a different guise by Xiaomi. Previously, 90 points suitcases released a transparent suitcase to mark its third anniversary after becoming one of the most successful Xiaomi product lineups in and outside of China.

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Xiaomi is a company only just has 4 years history, but now, it is very famous like Apple in China. This company spend about 4 years to reach the top-level with Lenovo, Huawei. Xiaomi released smartphones, TV, router and more. It merged Apple and Amazon. Not only that, Xiaom has a bigger ambition: to build a smart home system with their products.

Here is a speech from Leijun, the CEO of Xiaomi, This speech was given at the Smart Home Innovation Forum at Appliance World Expo, Asia’s largest home appliance exposition, sponsored by China Household Electrical Appliances Association. You will find out what’s idea he thought:

First off, I believe many people have a hard time defining Xiaomi. Is it a hardware company or a home appliance company or an Internet company? It’s very hard to define – actually I feel Xiaomi is an Internet company. Only with Internet companies will we have this thought process on making products. I won’t bring out all the important points in my talk; I want to speak simply about a few. One is focus. In the past, we’ve tried quite a few things, but we really only produced three products. One is mobile phones, one is televisions – televisions of course include TV set-top boxes – and also a router. I don’t know if you can figure out what these products have in common. Why these three products? I want to elaborate briefly on how these three products are all platforms.

What is the smart home? From some users’ perspectives, is the “smart home” just changing the concept of remote control? Is using mobile apps to control household appliances the “smart home”? Or is it just consolidating the pile of remote controls at home inside a smart phone? This is also a way of making a smart home. Or does it require having things prepared before finishing building a home or having the workers knock through some walls, wiring the Internet network into the house beforehand? There will also be many users who think the smart home is high-tech, a distant thing, then that it’s expensive. Is it not that any electronic plus the word “smart” reads as more expensive? However, I’m skeptical about the above viewpoints. Xiaomi’s defining of the smart home includes two important words. One is “automatic”. Remote control, mobile phone control is not the important point. So, I’m very much in agreement with Director Zhang’s viewpoint – that is automation. Maybe automation is at the heart of the smart home.

People are lazy, no one wants to throw away their remote controls and then use their phones to control [appliances]. Also, what’s the point of being able to control an electric fan from another part of the country? Many things happen automatically, like when I wake up at 8, the router can connect all devices. What state do you need to be in to make the user satisfied? This start up condition might be an alarm, or it might use a wristband that the user wears. The wristband has a video monitor function; press it and it sleeps, press it and it wakes up. When waking up in the morning, I press the wristband and it talks to all the routers and the router talks to all the devices. Also when PM2.5 reaches a certain numerical value, the router will react – the router will tell the other devices. The router is the information hub, the control center.

The first important word is “automatic”; the second important word is “slowly”. I believe changing the whole home’s appliances is something that users will not accept. I also believe labeling products “smart” and selling them at a high price is something users won’t accept. I think if just one lamp becomes smart, maybe the whole home will smarten. Smart home appliances – it’s all actually a very subtle thing. For example, we open the door and the light turns on. This is the smart experience that’s easiest to accept. Like in the washroom, when you wake up the water automatically runs. This is very subtle but also very easy for people to accept. So the smart home is not experienced with the entire set of home appliances, but rather a subtle experience, slowly integrated into the entire set of home appliances. We will allow this to slowly happen.

Smart control center. Let’s look at everything connected to the router. I’ll take the coffee machine, electric fan, other devices – every little dot, after we click on it, we can know each device’s state. For example, we click on the TV, and we’ll know what program it’s showing. This is a native protocol, and for the many devices that fulfill this protocol, the user simply clicks one time and can enter the application quickly. Change the communications protocol to AP, then enter the device ID and password, avoiding a complicated process. The picture over there is what we define as the “smart” scenario. It shows the arrival at the workplace and leaving the workplace, the arrival time. There’s no need to click it.To let the office devices start running, you only need to bring this cell phone to the office. Cell phones follow people, so my router knows my phone already returned to this office. It’ll tell my TV to turn on, fan to start turning, coffee machine to brew tea. This can be achieved; this is a subtle experience, no need to spend a lot of money to experience this.

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