How to Quickly Select the Appropriate Smart Industrial Padlock?

When you search for smart industrial padlocks on search engines or platforms such as Baidu, Google, Taobao, Tmall, and JD.com, you will find a large number of similar products. However, their quality cannot be judged from the product pictures. How to quickly select the appropriate smart industrial padlock from thousands of product pictures? Generally speaking, it can be started from the following aspects:

1.Clarify Functional Requirements

Basic Security Functions: Ensure that the padlock has basic anti-theft functions, such as being pry-resistant, saw-resistant, and resistant to violent opening. For places with high security requirements, padlocks with an alarm function can also be selected, which can send out an alarm in time when illegally opened.

Intelligent Unlocking and Management Functions: According to the usage scenarios and management requirements, select padlocks that support multiple unlocking methods (such as fingerprint, password, IC card, Bluetooth, remote control, etc.) to facilitate personnel access management. If remote monitoring and management are required, choose padlocks with functions such as remote unlocking and unlocking record query.

Usage Environment: Indoor or outdoor use, what kind of equipment it will be used on, temperature, humidity, acidity and alkalinity, etc.

2.Performance Indicators

Material: It is recommended to give priority to stainless steel or carbon steel materials, which have high strength and strong corrosion resistance and can adapt to various harsh industrial environments. Secondly, zinc alloy materials are also good in terms of firmness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance, and are commonly used in mid-range padlocks. Aluminum alloy materials have high strength and corrosion resistance and are relatively light in weight.

Lock Cylinder Grade: Grade C lock cylinders have the highest security level. Their key shapes are complex and can effectively prevent technical unlocking. It is recommended to give priority to padlocks equipped with Grade C lock cylinders.

Battery Life: For smart padlocks powered by batteries, pay attention to the battery life and choose products with strong battery life to reduce the frequency of battery replacement and avoid situations where the lock cannot be opened due to battery exhaustion. You can also choose locks without built-in batteries, such as NFC locks and passive locks, which are powered by keys or tools.

Basic Performance Requirements: Whether it needs to meet some specific certification standards, such as IP rating, the public security industry standard GA374-2019 for “Electronic Anti-theft Locks”, and the European ATEX explosion-proof directive, etc.

3.Application Scenarios

Outdoor Environment: If the padlock is used outdoors, it needs to have a high waterproof, dustproof and sunscreen rating to withstand harsh weather conditions such as heavy rain, sand and dust, and exposure to the sun.

Indoor Environment: When used indoors, although the requirements for waterproofing and sun protection are relatively low, it may be necessary to consider performance such as magnetic and static electricity resistance, especially in special indoor environments such as electronic production workshops.

Special Environments: In special environments with explosion-proof requirements, such as chemical plants and gas stations, it is necessary to select smart industrial padlocks with explosion-proof functions.

4.After-sales Service

Brand: Choose well-known and reputable brands such as Yale, MasterLock, ABLOY, and THORLOCK. These brands usually have more stringent production standards and quality control systems, their product quality is more reliable, and their technologies are more mature.

After-sales Service: Good after-sales service can guarantee the subsequent use. Understand the brand’s warranty period, repair service, technical support and other situations to ensure that problems with the padlock can be solved in a timely manner.