It is reported that this financing has attracted a number of well-known venture capital institutions to participate in, including the Northern Lights lead investment, Foxconn, and other investment. In addition to smart door locks, the future advantages of technology will also be expanded to include toilets, water purifiers and other smart home fields .
As one of the focuses of the mobile phone circle in the past few years, Liu Jiangfeng moved to the field of smart home last year. In 2017, he founded the Advantage Technology. The company is headquartered in Shenzhen, has an R&D center in Xiamen, and has more than 40 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. Branch office or office.
Most of the company's employees are from Huawei, Coolpad and other technology companies, and have mastered the forward-looking technology of the communication giant team. They also gather a group of employees who have many years of R&D experience in the production of household products.
What is more interesting is that the first formal launch of the Advantage Technology and Media was on April 9 of this year. At the conference of the Hammer Technology Nuts 3, the introduction of the company and products to everyone was Luo Yonghao.
On the same day, Merit Technology Joint Hammer Technology released three home smart locks, namely E1, C1 and C1N. Among them, E1 and C1 are both equipped with a high-grade C-class lock cylinder, and the Swedish FPC fingerprint module supports fingerprints and passwords. Various unlock methods including Bluetooth, Mobile App, and Bracelet. The communication method supports zigbee, NB-IOT, NFC, and 4G modules. The fastest possible opening is 0.3 seconds. Supports virtual password, temporary password, and can be remotely viewed on the mobile phone. All unlocking records are priced at 2,699 yuan, 1999 yuan and 1,599 yuan respectively.
Smart door locks are strong channels and post-sales industries. According to official sources, in April 2018, the amount of signing investment has exceeded 100 million, which is unprecedented in the field of smart door locks. At present, the advantages of science and technology also has more than 330 all over the country. Agents, 5,000 installers, complete the appointment of the fastest 48 hours of on-site installation, after-sales can achieve 2 hours of on-site service, also introduced a purchase, free installation, three-year warranty, lifetime warranty.
In many people's eyes, smart door locks have huge market space, but because it is a low-frequency, long-term product, it is difficult to obtain more value-added services.
In response to this, Liu Jiangfeng also stated in an interview with MICROSOFT that the smart door lock is only the first step of merit technology. In the future, the company will expand to the field of smart security products and launch smart purifiers and lighting systems one after another. , garbage disposal and other intelligent facilities.
Micro-nets are also learned from the supply chain. By the end of May, the advantages of smart toilets and water purifier products will soon be released.