Smart Lock Reference Design Enabling 5+ Years Battery Life on 4x AA Batteries
Description
With the increasing number of building and home owners looking to retrofit smart locks (or electronic locks) to their building or home: wireless battery powered smart locks are becoming increasingly popular in today’s market. In a smart lock application: the high current motor and radio often drains the battery quickly: causing battery life to suffer. Replacing multiple batteries can be a time consuming and costly issue: and thus lowering the average current consumption is often a key design consideration.
Features
- Over 5 years battery life on 4x AA batteries in series24 lock or unlock events per dayBLE radio connection periodMotor Driver has integrated FET’s and a current sense comparator which enables easy design and small solution size with minimal discrete componentsVoltage-based battery gas gauge: integrated DC-DC converterBLE tested using third party BLE iOS and Android applicationsConfigurable advertisement interval up to 4 seconds
Applications
- Process analytics
- Spectrometer
- Electronic smart lock
- Fitness machine
- Fire alarm control panel (FACP)
- Source measurement unit (SMU)
- HVAC valve & actuator control
- Electric toothbrush
- Clinical digital thermometer
- Digital stethoscope
- Weigh scale
Product Categories
- Motor drivers