Gold Smart Living and Home Automation Design · 2023
Max Series House Control System
by Qiang Liu
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Smart Living and Home Automation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Zhejiang Tuya Smart Electronics Co.,Ltd
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 597,695
- Verification code 9CF075E156 · Verify this award
About Max Series House Control System
Max Series is a home control system designed for use across an entire house. The series includes central control screens in 10 inch, 5 inch, 4 inch and 3.5 inch sizes, together with a movable wireless knob control. Different sizes suit different rooms and functions. The panels can work with or replace regular switch panels. Touch control, physical buttons, voice and a mobile application allow scenes to be preset and connected devices to be managed. A local network connection keeps control available offline. A physical privacy paddle on the host protects home privacy.
Wenkai Li's Max Series House Control System emerges from the contemporary discourse surrounding seamlessly integrated domestic technology, representing a thoughtful meditation on how digital interfaces can harmonize with architectural interiors rather than disrupting them. The work demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to the visual language of modern living spaces, employing a material palette of warm graphite tones and precision-machined housings that suggest both technological sophistication and domestic warmth. The designer's compositional intelligence manifests in the careful orchestration of five distinct modules, each serving specialized functions while maintaining membership within a unified visual family through consistent edge radii, proportional relationships, and chromatic coordination. Particularly noteworthy is the integration of the primary touchscreen interface, where information architecture balances functional density with visual clarity—weather iconography, temperature readings, and room visualization coexist without overwhelming the user's cognitive field. The inclusion of customizable display states, from stark numerical presentations to softer botanical imagery overlays, suggests an understanding that technology must accommodate varied aesthetic preferences and temporal contexts throughout the domestic day. The circular thermostat element introduces geometric counterpoint to the predominantly rectilinear forms, demonstrating how product families can achieve visual interest through controlled formal variation. This work invites consideration of how the boundaries between architectural element and technological device continue to dissolve in contemporary domestic environments, and how thoughtful design can mediate that transformation with grace and intentionality.
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- Unique Properties
- The smart central control series is designed for the whole house scene. The control terminals of different sizes can be applied to different functional zones to control all household devices and access entertainment/home security monitoring/property and living services, offering an all-round smart living experience. The movable wireless knob central control makes interaction much easier and more flexible. This series adopts color screens in a minimalist style to blend well with the home space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 10-inch host: length * width * height=270 * 160 * 11mm
Resolution: 1920 * 1200
5-inch central control screen: length * width * height=128 * 72 * 10mm
Resolution: 1920 * 1200
4-inch central control screen: length * width * height=86 * 86 * 10mm
Resolution: 480 * 480
3.5-inch central control screen: length * width * height=86 * 86 * 10mm
Resolution: 320 * 480
Wireless knob remote control: diameter * height=64 * 20mm
Duration: 30 days - Tags
- Whole-house scene, intelligent interaction, bookmark button design, preset scene, physical privacy paddle, modular design, human-machine interaction, screen mode, movable knob
- Production Technology
- This series applies the new I-Share voice assistant. Equipped with the industry-first T-Control™ technology, iShare™ technology, and wireless application protocol (WAP), it can efficiently connect and control smart home devices. It supports LAN connection, thereby can control smart devices even if offline. The 4-inch/3.5-inch central control panels with modular designs can work with or replace regular switch panels to be more harmonious and beautiful.
- Design Challenge
- Main challenge: To improve the compatibility and interoperability between systems and equipment.
Solution: We built an open IoT platform based on the host and first launched the T-Control™ and iShare™ technologies to strengthen the interconnection between the series of products, thus enabling a much easier and more stable connection between intelligent devices and home appliances of different IoT brands. - Project Duration
- The project will begin in September 2021 in Hangzhou, China, with mass production in Guangzhou, China, in June 2022
- Operation Flow
- This series enables touch control or one-button on/off, allowing customization of the interconnected devices and the exclusive scene through preset scenes on the UI interface or the physical button on the panel. It supports remote control via voice/an App to link intelligent devices or access entertainment/communication/community living and other services. A physical privacy paddle is designed on the top of the host, which can guarantee the user's home privacy security if the switch is flipped.
- Research
- Research objective: To launch innovative central control series products for easy control of the whole-house scene
Research direction: Easier and more user-friendly human-machine interaction
Market research: Online research & professional company research
Social impact: The series enables intelligent interconnection of all household devices, being a systematic intelligent housekeeper while offering a user-friendly intelligent residential solution for household living, safety, and entertainment. - Inspiration
- It is difficult for a single intelligent product to meet user needs for an all-around intelligent life experience. A series of smart home control terminals will help users realize intelligent customization of the whole house, building a fully-covered smart control scene both in dynamic and static areas for easy and intelligent human-machine interaction, thus meeting the needs of the household for an all-round intelligent life experience.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Designer Qiang Liu, Industrial designer, 2022
Image #2: Designer Qiang Liu, Industrial designer, 2022
Image #3: Designer Qiang Liu, Industrial designer, 2022
Image #4: Designer Qiang Liu, Industrial designer, 2022 - Patents
- Patent no:CN307082894S
Patent no:202230852895.7
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