Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan by Jy Lim and Kaydon Lim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design Competition Category.
IronHVAC· 2025
Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan
Client: Point One Technology Pte. Ltd.
A' Design Award Winner in HVAC Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #167581The Design
About Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan
The Storm Smart Corner Fan is a cooling solution designed for compact spaces and smart homes. Its dual axis movement allows for all around spatial coverage. The fan is energy efficient and reduces reliance on air conditioning. It is also smart home enabled, giving users full digital control of its features. With elegantly crafted curves, Storm blends visual sophistication and mechanical innovation, setting a new standard in contemporary and functional fan design.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Where to Get It
Smart Cooling Solutions for Modern Living
We design and manufacture innovative smart fans engineered for Southeast Asia's unique climate and compact living spaces. Our energy-efficient cooling solutions feature dual-axis technology, smart home integration, and modern aesthetics that complement contemporary interiors while reducing reliance on air conditioning.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative dual-axis technology in the Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan represents a significant advancement in spatial coverage - could you walk us through the journey of developing this unique mechanical assembly and how it evolved from initial concept to final implementation?
From the outset, we knew Storm would be an engineering challenge. Although it was not our first corner-mounted fan, it was the first to feature a compact dual-axis mechanism, remote-controlled tilt and sweep movements, all housed in a form factor smaller than anything we had built before. To achieve this, we redesigned the entire gearing assembly to support both a 105-degree or full 360-degree rotation, depending on user preference, while ensuring smooth operation without wobble, drift, or long-term wear. We relied heavily on 3D printing for prototyping, using it to test multiple gear configurations and component placements. Once we met our dimensional and performance targets, we moved into small-batch production for endurance, thermal, and airflow testing before committing to full mass production.
The Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan seems perfectly tailored for Singapore's tropical climate and compact living spaces - what insights from your extensive market research and consumer feedback shaped the specific features and functionalities of this design?
Singapore’s apartment sizes have decreased steadily over the decades, with today’s homes roughly 7% smaller than those in the 1990s. All this while our tropical climate has become significantly hotter. Many modern floorplans feature narrow rooms or irregular layouts that simply cannot accommodate large ceiling fans. These constraints formed the foundation of Storm’s design. We needed a fan that delivered full-room ventilation while occupying a small ceiling footprint.Storm was our natural solution to this insight, a corner fan for the Singapore home: tucked neatly into a corner, occupying zero floor space, yet capable of delivering powerful, room-wide airflow. Its success speaks for itself, with Storm quickly becoming one of our best-selling models, and demand often exceeding our production capacity.
Considering the growing emphasis on energy efficiency, particularly through Singapore's Climate Friendly Households Programme, how does the Storm Vspec IV Smart Corner Fan's smart home integration and power consumption specifications address these environmental concerns?
What makes Storm exceptional is its ability to deliver strong airflow across an entire room while operating at just 12W. This makes it significantly more energy-efficient than standing fans of similar blade sizes and even more efficient than many traditional ceiling fans. Its smart-home features enhance this efficiency further. Users can track real-time power consumption, automate with schedules, or activate geo-location triggers to turn the fan off when leaving home. Combined with an EC-Motor that is more efficient than DC-Motors, Storm empowers homeowners to reduce their carbon footprint while enjoying the convenience of modern smart-home living.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Storm Smart Corner Fan is a cooling solution for compact spaces and smart homes, designed for Singapore’s heat. It provides powerful cooling, saves energy, and reduces reliance on air conditioning. Storm's dual axis control maximises coverage. With elegantly crafted curves, Storm blends visual sophistication and mechanical innovation, setting a new standard in contemporary and functional fan design.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Overall dimensions,
- Width: 405mm
- Depth: 405mm
- Height: 500mm
Fan Blade Dimension,
- Diameter: 405mm
Packaging Dimension,
- Width: 450mm
- Depth: 550mm
- Height: 270mm
Width and depth are based on the diameter of the fan blade. Height measured from the ceiling to the lowest point of the fan blade.
Specifications,
- Power: 2W - 12W
- Input: 110-240V
- Magnet: Permanent
- Ball Bearings: Ceramic
- Converter: Brushless
- Rotation Gearbox: 1-speed (1:4.8 gearing)
- Fan Gearbox: 7-speed (1:1.22:1.44:1.66:1.88:2.11:2.32) - Tags
- Corner Fan, Ceiling Fan, Smart Fan, Smart Corner Fan, Fan, Singapore, Singapore Corner Fan, Storm Corner Fan
- Production Technology
- At the core of Storm’s flexibility is its dual axis technology and control system, allowing for 360 deg horizontal and 60 deg vertical range of motion. We also built smart home features into the driver, reducing additional chip production.
We use ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) for the blade and exterior casings; its strength to weight ratio is ideal for a ceiling mounted fan. The casing has a snap on design, reducing screws and materials required. - Design Challenge
- During the product development phase, we encountered significant difficulties in creating a mechanical assembly that could achieve the dual-axis movement needed while being robust, compact, and producable at scale. We also faced problems with smart home app integration due to our integrated chip approach. Nonetheless, we were committed to delivering a quality product that consumers deserve. The product development took longer, but we ultimately overcame these technical challenges.
- Research
- Type of Research:
Qualitative research
Research Objectives:
- Identify desired functions, pain points of fans, and space-related concerns to guide the design process.
- Identify key product features that are desirable (sales data-based)
Methodology:
Surveys and focus group sessions with consumers and retailers.
Data Collection and Research Tools Used:
Individuals: Online surveys
Retailers: In-person focus group sessions
Participants or Experiments:
Individuals: 57 Participants. Ages 25-44, Singapore Residents
Retailers: 6 Retailers, Singapore-based
Results, Insights, and Impacts:
Smaller apartment sizes in Singapore make big ceiling fans less practical, while standing fans occupy valuable floor space.
Clients seek versatile ventilation solutions to reduce air conditioning reliance, especially in limited spaces.
Retailers prefer a modern and neutral design that works for various interior styles.
Effect of the Research on Real-Life Phenomena:
This research suggests that consumers are environmentally and energy (cost) conscious. Space and versatility of cooling are important to homeowners. Fan design is also a significant consideration, as it needs to match the interior design style. - Inspiration
- Project Storm represents our belief that ceiling fans can be stylish and practical as a cooling solution.
Based in Singapore, we are all too familiar with the country’s tropical hot and humid climate. Cooling solutions such as fans or air-conditioning systems are important considerations for households, with the latter being much more expensive, energy intensive, and non environmentally friendly.
Although traditional fan solutions may be energy efficient and powerful, they do have a key drawback: their coverage area. Ceiling fans can provide wide coverage, but the coverage area is fixed. On the other hand, standing or desk fans take up valuable space and are usually encased in shielding that rarely contributes to aesthetics.
With Singapore’s National Environment Agency’s push for households to purchase more energy efficient appliances through the Climate Friendly Households Programme (CFHP), we knew fans had a place in Singaporean homes and we could make it better. Storm is the culmination of our 20 years of design and manufacturing experience, combining functionality and design in a complete package. - Project Duration
- Storm was first conceptualised in December 2021 in Singapore. The ideation, research, and design phase lasted 8 months, with the team focusing on key features and trends in design and market demand. Product Development started in August 2022, and this included material selection and component integration. This process lasted 14 months.
Our first prototype was ready for testing in October 2023, and the first production-ready batch was achieved in November 2024. - Operation Flow
- Storm is a smart corner fan perfect for compact spaces and smart homes. It has a dedicated remote and can be fully controlled using a smartphone or voice through compatible smart home suites: Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Samsung SmartThings.
Storms can rotate in either the horizontal or vertical direction or both simultaneously. It also allows a user to direct airflow to a particular area in their space or to have the fan continuously cover a wide area. - Patents
- Patenting Pending
- Team Members
- Chief Designer: LIM Jun Yang (JY)
Technical Engineer: LIM Jun Long (Kaydon)
Creative Director: LIM Buan Thiu (Jimmy) - Image Credits
- All Rights belong to Point One Technology Pte. Ltd.
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