At the end of April 2026, Zhumi Technology launched the DREAME NEXT flagship event at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. In addition to new cross-field products such as smart cars and kitchen appliances, the most interesting thing is actually a set of smart door lock products.
The outside world is discussing Chasemi’s ambition to build clean and cross-border cars, but there is an overlooked signal that deserves attention: Chasemi directly moves the entrance to the home’s smart ecology from the living room to the doorstep of the home.
The door lock has never been a separate security tool, it is the real first node of the smart home.
What different changes will this change in positioning bring to the entire industry?
In the past many years, the smart home industry has been fighting for the “entrance”: some say voice assistants are the entrance, some say smart screens are the entrance, and others say smart refrigerators are the entrance.
In all the noise, everyone has forgotten that the first smart device that users come into contact with when entering and exiting the home every day is the door lock.
This is not a question of who is right or wrong, but a question of the development stage of the industry.
In the early days, smart homes started from single-point intelligence. We first made the devices that could be used smart, and then slowly connected them into an ecosystem.
Low-frequency devices such as door locks have naturally become a forgotten corner.
This time, Zhuimi took smart door locks as the core breakthrough of smart homes, which actually reversed the entire logic.
The first step for users to enter a smart home is to open the door.
Starting from the action of opening the door, all devices should automatically enter the corresponding state, without the user needing to speak or click on the screen.
This time, what Zhumi has come up with is not a high-end concept lock, but a complete product matrix from flagship concept to entry-level, covering users with different budgets and different ecological preferences.
The full matrix has been set up from the beginning, which shows that this is not a test of the waters, but a clear strategic judgment.
In the first half of the competition for smart door locks, the core focus is safety.
From traditional mechanical locks to fingerprint locks to face recognition, all technological iterations revolve around “safer and more accurate identification.”
Chai Mi’s flagship concept product Riponex X10 Ultra takes this competitive dimension one step further.
It is equipped with AI palm vein unlocking technology, which relies on unique vein pattern recognition inside the human body. Its security level directly far exceeds traditional fingerprint unlocking, and completely solves the common problems of fingerprint wear and hand wet recognition failure.
What’s more interesting is that it is equipped with an NFC smart ring that does not require power supply for unlocking. The door can be opened with just a touch, completely achieving senseless interaction.
The most noteworthy thing about this technology iteration is actually not the improvement in security level, but the change in interaction logic.
In the past, when we used smart locks, we still relied on the logic of “users actively operating the door to open the door”: pressing with their finger, tapping on the phone, and scanning the camera.
Zhuimi has now changed the logic to “the lock actively waits for the user”. Whether it is palm vein recognition or ring unlocking, the user does not need to cooperate deliberately, so that the door can be opened when someone arrives.
Behind this change in interaction is a deep understanding of user needs: what users want is never “smart unlocking”, but “the ability to open the door without thinking”.
The ultimate goal of technology is to prevent users from feeling the presence of technology.
What’s more interesting is that this concept lock can also be linked to the wearable ecology of Chuimi. When users enter and exit the door, they can synchronize health data such as heart rate, blood oxygen, and sleep, and display it directly on the rear screen of the door lock.
In this way, a lock becomes the entrance to home health data. This method has indeed never been tried before.
What is the biggest pain point in smart homes now?
It’s not that the devices aren’t smart enough, it’s that devices from different brands and platforms cannot connect.
If you buy Apple’s Home device, it will be difficult to connect to Google’s ecosystem. Changing platforms requires replacing a bunch of devices, and the user cost is extremely high.
Zhuimi’s NAVO smart door lock A10 solves this problem directly from the bottom. It is equipped with Matter over Thread architecture and can achieve seamless interoperability with the three major platforms of Apple, Google, and Amazon.
No matter which ecosystem you use at home, this lock can be connected directly. There is no need to buy an additional hub or complicated pairing settings.
This design actually highlights the pain points of the current industry.
The Matter protocol was originally designed to break ecological barriers, but not many have actually implemented it into end products.
Zhuimi has directly applied this technology to its main mass-market mid-range products, which shows that it is not just for the sake of concepts, but really wants to solve the actual problems of users.
In addition to cross-ecological interconnection, this product has also made many detailed optimizations: the automatic unlocking of geofences can predict the user’s home trajectory and automatically open when people arrive at the door; the built-in gyroscope can sense the status of the door and automatically lock it without leakage; it can be remotely controlled by direct connection to Wi-Fi, and the battery life can be up to 8 months. It also supports IP65 dustproof and waterproof, and can be used even in outdoor scenes such as entering the garden.
This time, Zhuimi not only has flagship concept models and mid-range main models, but also launched a lightweight entry-level Safio Lock Turbo Lite for Apple ecological users, which is perfectly compatible with Apple Home and Home Key. It can unlock iPhone and Apple Watch with one click, and also retains multiple unlocking methods such as fingerprints, passwords, NFC, and mechanical keys.
Its battery life can reach 12 months, and its price is more affordable, which directly lowers the threshold for smart home entry. Even renters and families with limited budgets can easily use smart door locks.
This full coverage strategy from high-end concepts to entry-level models is actually in line with Chase’s usual gameplay: first rely on flagship products to show off technical muscles and build brand recognition, and then rely on mid-range and entry-level products to gain popularity and cover the vast majority of users.
Users with different needs can find products that suit them in this matrix.
What’s more important is that this time, Zhumi is not making smart locks for the sake of making smart locks, but regards smart door locks as the core hub of the entire smart home ecosystem.
The action of opening the door is the first signal to trigger the intelligent linkage of the whole scene: after opening the door, the lights automatically turn on, the air conditioner is adjusted to the appropriate temperature, the purifier starts working, and all devices automatically enter “at home mode”, and the user does not need to do any operations at all.
Chaimi has crossed over from smart cleaning to smart homes, and then extended to smart cars step by step. Its layout logic has always been very clear: focusing on the user’s life scenes, starting from one point, and slowly exploring the entire scene in depth.
This time, choosing to switch from smart door locks to smart homes is essentially choosing the right entrance.
All intelligent life begins with opening the door to your home.
When the door lock becomes the hub of active intelligence, the entire smart home experience is truly coherent.
Many people are still looking for news about cross-border car manufacturing, but they did not realize that it has already planted a seed that changes the rules of the industry at the core entrance of smart home.
In the future, when more and more players realize the importance of entrance, Zhumi has already laid out the product matrix at the doorstep of users.
This competition for the entrance to smart homes has just begun.
