Press Release
Beethoven Series Panel by Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd. Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Smart Living and Home Automation Design
Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd. acknowledged for smart living and home automation design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 27, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Smart Living and Home Automation Design category for Beethoven Series Panel by Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd., designed for Xiamen Intretech Inc.. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Beethoven Series Panel
Beethoven is a series of wall mounted smart home control panels. The layout draws on the musical staff, with physical buttons arranged like notes and joined by flowing lines. A circular touch screen and a knob allow precise adjustment, while the buttons give direct access to functions. Proximity sensing makes each panel glow softly on approach and dim on departure, avoiding nighttime glare. Ambient lighting offers three dynamic effects and eight colors. Finishes include painted polycarbonate, antiqued red copper and deep iron black.
About Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd.
Intre Smart Home is A smart home brand under Yingqu Technology, a listed company on the A-share market. With the core brand concept of "Humanization and true intelligence", it focuses on smart home products and provides users with full-house smart home solutions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd. a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Smart Living and Home Automation Design Award
The A' Smart Living Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs for smart living by leading brands and manufacturers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to smart living designers, home automation experts, industrial design studios and smart home brands from all countries. Typical entries include smart thermostats, automated lighting systems, intelligent security cameras, robotic vacuum cleaners, smart door locks and voice-activated assistants. The awarded smart living solution designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/smart-living
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/180239
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/180239
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!180239
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/379051
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Beethoven Series Panel
- Function
- Series Panel
- Category
- Smart Living and Home Automation Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Lavender and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Xiamen Intretech Inc.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiamen Intreplus Technology Co.,Ltd.
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #180239
Credits
- Team
- Juntao Wei,, Feng Gao,, Jun Lin, and Tingting Lin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Beethoven Series redefines smart panel aesthetics, drawing inspiration from the musical staff of classical music. Physical buttons echo leaping notes, gracefully linked by fluid lines to create a sense of rhythmic vitality. Paired with refined materials and human centered functionality, every interaction becomes an emotional experience. More than just a control panel, it serves as a bridge connecting personal emotion, living scenarios, and spatial aesthetics.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the musical world, the design pays homage to Beethoven and his spirit of creating timeless masterpieces against all odds. It fuses graceful artistry with intelligent technology, drawing on the flowing curves of the musical staff and integrating a circular touch screen. By consolidating multiple functions into a single sleek unit, it achieves greater simplicity. With five classic color options and a soft matte finish, this series complements a wide range of interior styles.
- Research
- As aesthetic expectations for living spaces continue to rise, traditional switch panels can no longer meet the demands of personalization, artistry, and visual harmony in modern high end residences. Homeowners now expect smart devices not only to function well, but also to enhance interior aesthetics. In response, the Beethoven Series draws inspiration from the musical staff, fusing art, refined materials, and intelligence into an elegant wall mounted control panel and redefining what it can be.
- Challenge
- This series is the first to bring classical music aesthetics into smart home hardware, and introduces the first Smart Ambient Panel in the industry, offering three dynamic lighting effects and eight colors with support for custom scenes. Interaction becomes more intuitive and comfortable thanks to its knob, physical buttons, and proximity sensing that avoids harsh glare. Communication, sensing, and control are highly integrated in a modular architecture to enhance functionality and scalability.
- Realization and Technology
- Each variant is crafted to match its role. The ZigBee edition pairs PC with a metallic painted finish for durability and a refined look. The KNX and knob equipped models offer two premium finishes: red copper with a brass substrate and deep iron black on aluminum alloy. The red copper surface is antiqued, enhanced with multiple coatings and protective treatments for a vintage patina without tarnishing. Laser etched markings glow softly and support customization for both utility and artistry.
- Operation and Interaction
- The series provides diverse dynamic lighting effects and colors, evoking technological sophistication and emotional warmth. It also supports one tap scene activation, remote app control, and seamless integration with smart locks to trigger Away mode. The hybrid interface pairs a knob for precise tuning with physical buttons for instant function access. Proximity sensing creates an intuitive experience: the panel glows softly on approach and dims gently when you leave, without nighttime glare.
- Project Duration and Location
- This product was designed and developed in Xiamen, China in June 2025, and launched in the Chinese market in December 2025.
- Specifications
- The series features the first Smart Ambient Panel in the industry, offering three dynamic lighting effects and eight colors. It supports one tap scene activation, remote app control, and seamless integration with smart locks to trigger Away mode. The hybrid interface pairs a knob for precise tuning with physical buttons for instant function access. Proximity sensing creates an intuitive experience: the panel glows softly on approach and dims gently when you leave, eliminating nighttime glare.
- Keywords
- Aesthetics Inspired by the Musical Staff, Proportions Based on the Golden Ratio, Smart Ambient Panel, Crafted to Match the Role of Each Panel Variant, Combination of a Knob, Physical Buttons, and Proximity sensing, Highly Integrated Modular Architecture, Magnetic Mounting
