The smart lock integrated through Tuya IoT platform relies on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 5.0 protocol to support the communication of devices with each other. Its delay in data is less than 0.3 seconds, and the power usage is controlled below 1.2W, reducing 23% energy compared with the traditional Zigbee solution. Take Tuya PIR-Motion series released in 2023 as an example. The lock body incorporates a built-in millimeter-wave radar sensor, which can sense human motion within 0.5-8 meters. The false alarm rate is merely 1.2%, and dynamically keying encryption keys are synchronized by Tuya Cloud. A 256-bit random verification code is triggered each time the lock is unlocked. The cracking probability is less than 0.001%. As reported by StatCounter, 34% of smart devices worldwide have been connected to the Tuya ecosystem, with a total of 130 million devices in over 200 countries. With its massive network, the effectiveness of firmware upgrading for smart lock has grown by 40%. For example, after the EU GDPR privacy regulation was updated in 2022, The Tuya platform completed the push of OTA security patches for 98.5% of the worldwide devices within 72 hours.
In terms of user interaction, the Tuya-based smart lock allows multimodal operations on the App side. Take the example of the voiceprint recognition accuracy rate of 99.4% (based on one million samples) and the fingerprint recognition module according to the FAP20 standard and with an FRR of only 0.5%, far superior to the industry standard of 2.3%. Take the example of the K20 Pro, for instance, a collaboration product of the Chinese brand Kaadas and Tuya. On average, 12.7 times a month users unlock their phones, and 1.3 times a week is the sharing of temporary passwords frequency. Moreover, through the improvement of Tuya’s AI algorithm, the unlocking response time has been decreased from 1.8 seconds to 0.7 seconds. It has been discovered in a survey done by J.D. User satisfaction, the rating of smart lock with Tuya was 89 points (on a scale of 100), which was higher than the average of 76 points for non-ecosystem products. The main reason was the cross-device interaction function – e.g., after being bonded with Amazon Alexa or Google Home. The success rate to initiate the linking of air conditioners, lamps, etc. was 97.6%.
Cost-saving and compatibility-saving, the Tuya solution reduces 60% of the development cycle of smart lock and reduces hardware BOM cost by 18%. For instance, after an ODM factory in Shenzhen adopted the Tuya module, the production cost of a single lock reduced from $42 to $34.5, and it can be used with over 3,000 third-party devices. During the 2023 CES exhibition, the U-Bolt Pro from the American company Ultraloq was integrated with Apple HomeKit via Tuya. Equipped with its IP65 degree of water resistance and working temperature range of -30°C to 70°C, it covers the requirements of 95% of severe environments. In actual implementations, the deployment of 20,000 sets of Tuya smart locks in Singapore’s HDB residential area in 2021 enhanced the property management efficiency by 35%, reduced the repair work orders by 28%, and saved 41% of the expense of lock replacement as a result of key loss.
In terms of security risk management and control, the three-layer protective mechanism (end – pipe – cloud) of Tuya’s designed smart lock lowers the risk of leakage to below 0.03%, and its distributed node verification technology can resist up to 150,000 attacks per second of DDoS attacks. As per Kaspersky’s 2023 report, in case of an attack on a smart lock without an internal security system, the percentage chance stands at 7.8%, whereas in case of Tuya devices, there is only a 0.4% risk percentage because of the implementation of TLS 1.3 encryption and two-way certificate authentication. For example, in 2022, a five-star hotel in Dubai implemented 5,000 sets of Tuya smart locks, having zero cybersecurity incidents during the first year of use. Additionally, with dynamic permission classification (employees/guests/administrators), illegal intrusion incidents dropped by 92%.
Statistical evidence shows that in 2023 the world-wide shipping volume of smart locks within the Tuya platform totaled 12 million units, occupying 29% of the total sales volume of the smart lock category. Among them, the Encode Plus series of global brand Schlage, supported by localized services of Tuya, increased its activation rate in the Southeast Asia market by 67% year over year. Consumer behavior statistics show that the key reason why 81% of users choose Tuya smart locks is “ecological compatibility” – i.e., while combined with sweeping robots and security cameras, the scene trigger error rate is less than 2%, and the average error rate of an all-single-brand system is 8.5%. This integration capability has enabled Tuya to increase the developer partnership volume in the smart lock market from 800 in 2020 to 3,200 in 2023, again and again reinforcing the ecological barrier.