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SMART HOME
Smart Locks
Develop secure, long-range, and energy-efficient smart door locks with our wireless solutions
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Why Smart Locks?
Smart locks are a critical component of the smart home, increasing safety while making life more convenient. With a smart lock, you don’t have to go home only to let the delivery agent or plumber in because access can be controlled safely anywhere. A family member losing a key won’t be a problem with a wirelessly connected lock, either. The increased safety, flexibility, and quality of life are key factors propelling the expected 21% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the smart lock market until 2028.
Silicon Labs’ Wireless Solutions for Secure and Efficient Smart Locks
Silicon Labs’ wireless solutions simplify the design of secure, energy-efficient smart locks, accelerating time-to-revenue and increasing your value proposition. Our wireless portfolio includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread, and Proprietary solutions with flexible multi-protocol co-existence, easy device commissioning, and the most advanced IoT security. Our Matter enables you to integrate your locks with all popular smart home ecosystems seamlessly. Silicon Labs’ ultra-low-power SoCs enable multi-year battery life for many wireless locks in the market today.
How to Design Energy-Efficient and Secure Wireless Smart Locks?
How to Choose the Best Wireless Protocol for Smart Locks?
Which wireless protocol is optimal for your smart lock? Silicon Labs offers secure, ultra-low-power solutions for all wireless protocols you need in smart locks: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread, and Proprietary, with flexible multi-protocol co-existence and easy commissioning.
How to Integrate Locks with Smart Home Ecosystems?
Smart locks are part of the Matter 1.0 specification, making integration with smart home ecosystems such as Amazon, Apple, and Google easier. Silicon Labs provides smart lock makers a complete Matter development solution with the most energy-efficient and secure single-chip solutions for Wi-Fi and Thread, including Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) co-existence for easy device setup.
How to Maximize the Security of Smart Locks?
Smart locks must sustain even the most sophisticated cyber-attacks to protect your customers’ homes. Our Secure Vault is the most advanced IoT security solution with up to PSA Certification Level 3 grading.
Peripheral support for Authentication Methods
The Silicon Labs wireless platform, including the MG24, ZG28, and FG28 with integrated AI/ML accelerator while supporting a broad selection of peripherals. Enhancing your possibilities of using various authentication methods such as PIN codes, security tokens, and biometrics such as fingerprint, hand geometry, face and voice recognition, eye scan, and more.
How to Enable Multi-year Battery Life for Smart Locks?
Battery life can be a deal breaker for many smart lock buyers. Our wireless portfolio is renowned for its ultra-low-power capabilities enabling many commercially available lock products to reach multi-year battery life. The SiWx917 is the lowest-power Wi-Fi 6 SoC available. Our Z-Wave supports fast wake-up time, Frequency Listening Receiver Slave (FLiRS), and other features for ultra-low-power lock operation. Additionally, the Energy Profiler on our Simplicity Studio helps you to optimize your code line by line to minimize energy consumption, maximize battery life, and increase sales.
How to Simplify Commissioning for Smart Lock Users?
Silicon Labs offers several solutions for enabling easy commissioning for smart locks, such as the Z-Wave SmartStart or Bluetooth Low Energy co-existence on Matter, Amazon Sidewalk (SG28), Wi-Fi, Thread, and Zigbee SoCs, enabling setup using a smartphone.
Accurate Positioning on Smart Locks?
Accurate Positioning is a fundamental building block of Bluetooth-enabled smart locks of the future. It enables you to develop locks that can determine if a user is approaching or departing. Combining this with the Angle of Arrival (AoA), your lock can determine users’ intent and automatically unlock or lock itself, depending on the situation, enhancing the user experience and safety.
How to Accelerate Time-to-Market for Smart Locks?
Wireless design for smart locks products is challenging and time-consuming due to regional RF regulations. Silicon Labs offers wireless modules (e.g. ZGM230S) with a built-in antenna and worldwide RF certifications to save up to 9 months or more from your time-to-market, reducing your development costs, accelerating time to break even, and increasing return on investment.
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EFR32SG28 Dual-Band Wireless SoC for Amazon Sidewalk
EFR32SG28 Dual-Band Wireless SoC for Amazon Sidewalk
The EFR32SG28 is a secure, low power dual-band SoC for Amazon Sidewalk devices that supports Bluetooth Low Energy and sub-GHz FSK, providing reliable connectivity in the home using Bluetooth LE and beyond the front door using sub-GHz FSK to cover detached buildings, pools, and spas. The multi-core device has efficient ARM Cortex®-M33 running up to 78 MHz and with 1024 kB of Flash and 256 kB of RAM. The low active and sleep currents make it ideal for battery operated end devices like sensors including door, window, and temperature sensors devices, while the link budget of 128.6 dBm provides long range and reliable communication. The dedicated security core supports our Secure Vault™ High, bringing industry leading IoT security to the device to protect wireless data and the device from both remote and local attacks.



EFR32ZG28 SoCs
EFR32ZG28 SoCs
The EFR32ZG28 SoC is an ideal dual band Sub-GHz + 2.4 GHz BLE SoC solution for “Internet of Things”. The ZG28 is an ideal platform for Z-Wave applications that require more Flash, RAM and GPIO than the ZG23 device. The ZG28 is pin compatible with the ZG23 in the 6x6 QFN48 package. Z-Wave addresses applications for smart homes, security, lighting, and hospitality. The ZG28 can also support other protocols including Wi-SUN, Amazon Sidewalk, and Wireless M-BUS.
The single die, multi-core solution, provides industry leading security, low power consumption with fast wakeup times, and integrated power amplifiers to enable the next level of secure connectivity for IoT devices. The Large memory footprint and the integration of AI/ML hardware accelerator is ideal for Smart End Nodes.






EFR32MG24 Series 2 Multiprotocol Wireless SoC
EFR32MG24 Series 2 Multiprotocol Wireless SoC
The EFR32MG24 Wireless SoCs are ideal for mesh IoT wireless connectivity using Matter, OpenThread and Zigbee protocols for smart home, lighting, and building automation products. With key features like high performance 2.4 GHz RF, low current consumption, an AI/ML hardware accelerator and Secure Vault™, IoT device makers can create the smart, robust, and energy-efficient products that are secure from remote and local cyber-attacks. An ARM Cortex®-M33 running up to 78 MHz and up to 1.5 MB of Flash and 256 kB of RAM provides resources for demanding applications while leaving room for future growth. Target applications include gateways and hubs, sensors, switches, door locks, LED lighting, luminaires, location services, predictive maintenance, glass break detection, wake-word detection, and more.



SiWx917M Wi-Fi 6 plus Bluetooth LE 5.4 Wireless SoCs
SiWx917M Wi-Fi 6 plus Bluetooth LE 5.4 Wireless SoCs
Our SiWx917M SoC is our lowest power Wi-Fi 6 SoC, ideal for ultra-low power IoT wireless devices using Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth, Matter, and IP networking for secure cloud connectivity. It is optimal for developing battery operated devices that need long battery life. SiWx917M SoC includes an ultra-low power Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low Energy LE 5.4 wireless CPU subsystem, and an integrated micro-controller (MCU) application subsystem, security, peripherals and power management subsystem all in a single 7x7 mm QFN package. The wireless subsystem consists of a Network Wireless Processor running up to 160 MHz, baseband digital signal processing, analog front end, 2.4 GHz RF transceiver and integrated power amplifier. The application subsystem consists of an ARM® Cortex®-M4F running up to 180 MHz, embedded SRAM, FLASH, and Sensor Hub. The ARM® Cortex®-M4F is dedicated for peripheral and application-related processing, while the network wireless processor runs the wireless and networking stacks on independent threads, thus providing a fully integrated solution that is ready for a wide range of embedded wireless IoT applications.
Target applications include Smart Homes, Consumer Health and Wearables, Medical, Industrial, Retail, Smart Building and Cities, Asset Tracking.



ZGM230S Modules
ZGM230S Modules
The ZGM230S is a system-in-package (SiP) module for Z-Wave connectivity and networking built for the performance, security, and energy demands of the Smart Home. Based on the EFR32ZG23 SoC, it delivers robust RF performance, long-range, industry leading security features, low-current consumption, a rich set of MCU peripherals, all in a 6.5 x 6.5 mm package. The ZGM230S is a complete solution supported by powerful and fully upgradeable software, advanced development and debugging tools, and documentation that will simplify and minimize the development cycle, certification process, and deployment of your end product, helping to accelerate its time-to-market significantly.


Channel Sounding Optimized and High-Performance AI/ML SoCs
Channel Sounding Optimized and High-Performance AI/ML SoCs
The BG24L, optimized for Channel Sounding and Bluetooth LE applications, features a built-in AI/ML hardware accelerator that offers up to 8x faster inferencing over Cortex-M, and consumes up to 6x lower power making it ideal for cost-effective intelligent edge nodes with a long battery life. The device prioritizes security with Secure Vault Mid, safeguarding against remote attacks. The pin-compatibility of this SoC with other device families in the Silicon Labs Bluetooth portfolio allows customers to seamlessly migrate to SoCs with expanded memory, higher clock speeds, and additional security. BG24L is an ideal fit for channel sounding-related applications like Asset Tracking and Direction Finding as well as AI/ML-related applications such as Predictive Maintenance.


EFR32FG23L Ultra-Low Power, Application-Optimized Sub-GHz SoC
EFR32FG23L Ultra-Low Power, Application-Optimized Sub-GHz SoC
The EFR32FG23L Sub-GHz solution is an ultra-low power, cost-effective SoC designed with optimal flash and RAM for a diverse set of applications. The single die, multi-core solution, provides best-in-class link budget, low power consumption with fast wakeup times, and an integrated power amplifier to enable the next generation of secure connectivity for IoT devices. The FG23L provides efficiency and reliability, making it suitable for applications such as home and industrial automation, key fobs and smart city sensor nodes.
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Silicon Labs offers ML development tools for any level of experience and suited to your specific application.

Security
To stay secure, device makers need an underlying security platform in the hardware, software, network, and cloud.

CPMS
Custom Part Manufacturing Service allows customization of wireless SoCs, modules, and MCUs at the factory.

SDK Support
Reduce your software development costs by having support for critical security patches and bug fixes for up to 10 years.
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