SwitchBot’s New Smart Home Lock Turns Any Door Into a Biometric Vault

Lugging bags of groceries in one hand, fumbling for keys with the other, and wishing – just for once – the door would recognize your face and do its job. SwitchBot heard that inner monologue. The same company that gave us finger-sized robots to press buttons and slide curtains has now turned its attention to the lock on your door. But instead of asking you to rip out what you’ve got, they’ve engineered a system that slips right over your existing hardware. Plug it in, pair it up, and suddenly your front door becomes a biometric fortress with a surprising dose of empathy.

SwitchBot’s approach to smart home devices has always centered on meaningful upgrades, not forced reinventions. Their gadgets slip into your life without fanfare, giving old devices new tricks. The Lock Ultra Vision Combo continues that philosophy but adds some serious futuristic flair. It’s a three-part system: the Lock Ultra, the Keypad Vision, and the Hub Mini with Matter support. Each part does its job, but together they deliver something remarkably fluid. The kind of seamless experience where you forget you’re using smart tech at all until someone asks how your door knows your face.

Designer: SwitchBot

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The Lock Ultra itself is lean, fully metal, and 50% thinner than its predecessor, the Lock Pro. It fits over your existing lock – single deadbolt, keyhole cylinder, knob cylinder, doesn’t matter – with near-universal compatibility and no drilling. Behind its understated design is a torque motor 10.5% stronger and 122.2% faster than the last-gen unit. FastUnlock keeps Bluetooth constantly active between the lock and keypad, shaving seconds off the process. Installation auto-calibrates, so your first impression isn’t a troubleshooting session.

Whether you’re in the U.S. with a single deadbolt or in the EU juggling an oval or night-latch lock, there’s a tailored adapter kit that slips onto your existing cylinder without a single screw into your door. No locksmith, no torn-up woodwork. It clamps over, hugs tight, and stays invisible until you tell it to work. Even rare lock types like Jimmy Proof or Swiss Round are covered with special kits.

An industry-first 3-tier battery system provides multiple failsafes and redundancies so that you’re NEVER faced with a dead gadget that locks you out (to be honest, you can always still use your keys to get in). The main 4200mAh rechargeable battery lasts up to 12 months, depending on usage and region. When that runs out, a CR123A backup jumps in, holding up to 5 years of emergency unlocks. And just in case you find yourself completely out of juice, the lock’s micro-electrolytic system grants five last-chance unlocks by harnessing residual energy. It’s overkill in the best possible way – resilience layered into the design, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Then comes the Keypad Vision, which feels like something borrowed from a heist film. It doesn’t just let you punch in a passcode. It scans your face in under a second using 850nm infrared and over 30,000 projection points. Whether it’s dark, raining, or you’re wearing sunglasses, it maps your features at millimeter precision and verifies identity with a false recognition rate under 0.0001%. Importantly, all biometric data is stored locally for airtight privacy. No servers, no surveillance vibes – just you and your door in a mutually respectful relationship.

But the facial scan is just one of 18 ways to get inside. The Keypad Vision also supports semi-conductive fingerprint unlocking, passcodes, NFC cards, voice assistant integration, app control, geo-fencing, even smartwatch pings. Want to give temporary access? There’s one-time passwords and remote unlock confirmations. If you prefer analog, physical keys are still part of the game. Everything is designed for flexibility, but also redundancy. And yes, the keypad runs for up to 12 months on a single charge, thanks to a 5000mAh internal cell.

To tie it all together, the Matter-enabled Hub Mini acts as a smart home diplomat. It bridges Bluetooth devices with Wi-Fi and folds them into Apple Home, Alexa, Google, and Home Assistant. With it, the Lock Ultra becomes part of automated scenes, voice routines, and remote management. Moreover, the Hub Mini Matter also lets your lock partner up with other smart home gadgets, like automatically having the lights switch on when you enter the home, or have the garage door open before the main door when you’re coming back in your car, or something as simple as adjusting the thermostat when you leave and/or when you come back to save energy. Clever, right?

And if you ever move? You just unscrew and take the whole thing with you. No holes in your doorframe, no expensive permanent installs, no deductions from your security deposit. SwitchBot isn’t selling you permanence – it’s giving you portability with intelligence baked in. Your face stays your key, even if your zip code changes.

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