Press Release
NIRO-Hi Smart Assistant for Conference Room by Hongtao Zhang Is Granted the A' Design Award in Office and Business Appliances Design
Hongtao Zhang honored for office and business appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ NIRO-Hi Smart Assistant for Conference Room by Hongtao Zhang, designed for Zhang Hongtao Designer, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Office and Business Appliances Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding NIRO-Hi Smart Assistant for Conference Room
NIRO-Hi is a voice-controlled smart assistant designed for conference rooms. Meetings are started by voice, so manual data entry is not needed and contacts are located by speaking. Connected devices in the room, including air conditioning, curtains, projector and lighting, are also controlled by voice. A touch screen and buttons on the top allow manual control when needed. A dynamic light belt around the top speaker shows the current status. Mobile phones and computers can be connected for online meetings. The matte white finish gives a soft appearance.
About Hongtao Zhang
Zhang Hongtao focuses on interactive innovation and technology development of artificial intelligence products.He graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2006 with 14 years of industrial design experience.
Award Record
This recognition makes Hongtao Zhang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Office and Business Appliances Design Award
The A' Office Appliance Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good office appliances by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to office appliance brands, office appliance designers, product designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Entries typically include printers, scanners, shredders, photocopiers, projectors and telephones. Awarded office appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/office-appliance
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/103380
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/103380
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!103380
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/274533
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- NIRO-Hi Smart Assistant for Conference Room
- Function
- Smart Assistant for Conference Room
- Category
- Office and Business Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Business
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhang Hongtao Designer
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hongtao Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #103380
Credits
- Team
- Zhang Hongtao, Liu Daiyan, Yang Fan, Li Shiyan, Wu Zhun and Zhi Libo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In the past, the efficiency of traditional voice conference products is quite low, users had to complete many steps to set up a conference and enter complex information.The entire user experience is not smooth.The NIRO-Hi conference smart device brings more intelligent assistant to meetings powered by AI technologies.Users use voice to control NIRO-Hi without hands-on operation. Users do not need any manual information input, they can directly locate contacts through voice and start voice communication. In addition to basic meeting functions.
- Inspiration
- More and more employees aspire to work in a smart office environment. Just as voice assistants such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple Siri can easily create smart homes, voice interactions can also create smart office spaces. The intelligent conference room hardware - NIRO-Hi brings new voice interaction experience for users with the help of AI. All the hardware in the conference room can be controlled by voice, greatly improving the efficiency of the meeting.
- Research
- Almost all traditional conference room terminal products use serious geometric shapes with tough edges to show professional sense, products became cruel tools. By this insight, NIRO-Hi uses an elegant design language with a matte white CMF to create comfortable experience. The dynamic light belt installed around the top speaker, sensitive and natural voice interactions，information display with screen，NIRO-Hi really turned into a smart assistant
- Challenge
- After a careful study of the technical boundaries of acoustic hardware, we discovered that reducing the height of the speaker and microphone and extending the space between is beneficial to enhancing the microphone's ability to suppress the speaker to achieve a better user experience, so we determine our final design to adapt triangular arrangement of three microphones
- Realization and Technology
- Leading smart microphone array processing technology and acoustic structure design: intelligently select the near-end speaker's voice signal and shield the interference signal. NIRO-Hi not only can further improve the noise cancellation effect by more than 10dB compared with traditional noise reduction technology, but also can effectively suppress the adverse effect of reverberation on audio quality
- Operation and Interaction
- Combining voice wake-up, voice recognition interaction and touch screen interaction, NIRO-Hi supports self-developed hardware and customized systems and software algorithms to provide services such as VoIP / PSTN phone, IOT control, conference room reservation management to improve conference and office efficiency. It can be easily configured, operated, and maintained through code scanning on a mobile terminal. In special cases, users can still touch the screen and touch buttons on the top to control the product.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2019 in Beijing and ends in January 2020.
- Specifications
- 337mm x 363mm x 72mm
- Keywords
- Artificial intelligence, Office equipment, Smart assistant，IOT，Voice Recognition
