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Centn Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform by 4Paradigm UED Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
4Paradigm UED acknowledged for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category for Centn Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform by 4Paradigm UED, designed for Xi'an Centn Technology Co.. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Centn Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform
Centn is a smart irrigation platform for agriculture. The platform collects environmental data and monitors crop status through connected sensors and equipment, then generates an irrigation plan supported by an expert decision system. Precise volume control helps reduce irrigation costs. Separate crop and equipment views can be shown together through a guide track added to the navigation, giving a global overview. An interactive equipment map allows users to select and group devices directly, which simplifies configuration and remote field control.
Award Record
This recognition makes 4Paradigm UED a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award
The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Typical entries include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. The awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/135492
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135492
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135492
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/321106
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://vimeo.com/812759433
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Centn Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform
- Function
- Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Lavender, Gray and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Xi'an Centn Technology Co.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- 4Paradigm UED
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #135492
Credits
- Team
- Yun Xu, Wei Wang, Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang and Zhaojun Liang
- Image Credits
- Creator (Design Director) Yun Xu, (Design Manager) Wei Wang, (Designer) Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaojun Liang, Corp view, 2022 Video Credits:Kai Wang; Creator (Design Director) Yun Xu, (Design Manager) Wei Wang, (Designer) Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaojun Liang, Homepage, 2022 Video Credits:Kai Wang; Creator (Design Director) Yun Xu, (Design Manager) Wei Wang, (Designer) Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaojun Liang, Smart Irrigation, 2022 Video Credits:Kai Wang; Creator (Design Director) Yun Xu, (Design Manager) Wei Wang, (Designer) Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaojun Liang, Device Control, 2022 Video Credits:Kai Wang; Creator (Design Director) Yun Xu, (Design Manager) Wei Wang, (Designer) Kai Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaojun Liang, Smart Irrgation2, 2022 Video Credits:Kai Wang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The platform uses innovative navigation controls to create an intermediate state between the two views of crops and equipment by adding a new guide track, i.e., it supports users to view both crop and equipment information to get a global overview, and users can also directly switch the navigation into a separate page to deal with work content. In terms of equipment configuration, the platform provides a map of equipment for users to frame and select, with good visibility for quick grouping, minimizing the memory line and complexity of configuration operations.
- Inspiration
- Thanks to strong government initiatives for rural revitalization and smart agriculture, the intelligent agricultural production platform based on IoT, AI, and other emerging technologies is becoming increasingly mature. The smart irrigation agriculture system is a typical AI use case in agriculture. By deploying AI along the agricultural value chain, we aim to unlock broader value in precision agriculture, whereby farming practices can be based on precise science, economy of inputs, and the maximization of productivity and the quality of agricultural products.
- Research
- The whole product is divided into three stages: sensing, decision, collaboration. In the sensing stage, the product will combine the information collected by the equipment and sensors to give a reasonable crop plan to assist users in farming arrangements. In the decision phase, the system will generate intelligent irrigation plan according to the target and range set by the user, combining crop, weather and expert experience. In the collaboration stage, users can flexibly configure the irrigation plan to the irrigation unit by dragging and dropping the box selection form.
- Challenge
- It achieves digital mapping of the physical space. The environment, crop status, and equipment conditions are intuitively visualized in the digital space, which boosts user productivity and ability to coordinate with system level information. This platform provides a multiple level digital map of the physical space. From environmental sensing at the macro level to intervention at the equipment level, users can dive deeper, layer by layer, eliminating field investigation costs, allowing flexible control, and improving productivity.
- Realization and Technology
- Based on AI and IoT, the Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform can collect environmental factors, monitor crop status, and generate an intelligent irrigation program supported by an expert decision system. It helps achieve precise volume control for agricultural irrigation, reduce irrigation costs. Further, it integrates field monitoring capabilities, allowing users to control equipment remotely to improve field management and services, a true example of how AI can help improve agricultural productivity and efficiency while reducing costs.
- Operation and Interaction
- First of all, the system maps all physical devices in digital space, which allows users to select and group configurations in the device map through box selection in an intuitive visual situation, reducing memory burden and cognitive cost. The system clearly divides the crop and equipment views to facilitate operation by different role users. Through innovative navigation controls, the platform also provides a superimposed display function to ensure a clear interface focus and take into account its flexibility.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 15, 2022, in Beijing and finished in November 09, 2022.
- Keywords
- System design, AI, IoT, Irrigation, Agriculture, Digital twinning, Visualization
