Press Release
Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Amphibious Rescue Drone in Security, Safety and Surveillance Products Design
Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang acknowledged for security, safety and surveillance products design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Amphibious Rescue Drone by Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang, designed for Junkai Shao, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Security, Safety and Surveillance Products Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Amphibious Rescue Drone
Amphibious is a portable rescue drone designed for disaster response. Amphibious combines disaster investigation, life detection, search and rescue positioning, equipment transport and emergency lighting. The four wings can be rotated to form a portable mode, a flight mode or a diving mode. Radar life detection devices on the outer edge of the wings help locate survivors, while lights on the inner edge support work in dark areas. The body is made of lightweight aviation aluminum, plastic and composite materials. The drone can be folded and carried in a backpack.
About Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang
I am a doctoral student in industrial design. I participated in many design projects, published several academic papers and won several international design awards. If the products I design can improve people's living standards, it's a happy thing.
Award Record
This recognition makes Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Security, Safety and Surveillance Products Design Award
The A' Security Products Design Award is an international product design competition recognizing good security products by best designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to security products designers, industrial designers, security equipment manufacturers and surveillance products manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include CCTV cameras, alarm systems, access controls, biometric scanners, surveillance drones and security locks. The awarded security products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/security-products
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/105555
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/105555
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!105555
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/250000
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Amphibious Rescue Drone
- Function
- Rescue Drone
- Category
- Security, Safety and Surveillance Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Social Impact
- Colors
- Lavender, Dim Gray, Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Junkai Shao
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #105555
Credits
- Team
- Junkai Shao and Wenzhe Tang
- Image Credits
- Designer Junkai Shao, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a portable amphibious rescue drone, which integrates disaster investigation, life detection, search and rescue positioning, equipment transportation and emergency lighting functions. It can turn four wings to form portable mode, flight mode or diving mode. The outer diameter of the four wings is equipped with radar life detection device to locate the rescue position of the survivors. The inner diameter is equipped with detection light, which can deal with the search and rescue tasks in dark areas.
- Inspiration
- In the rescue of mountainous region or rock cave and other special environmental disasters, the manual use of equipment to search survivors is inefficient and risky, which is easily limited by terrain and underwater environmental conditions and lacks flexibility. In addition, the functional application of rescue equipment is single and not easy to carry, so it is difficult to cope with the dynamic changeable environments and chain emergencies caused by natural disasters.
- Research
- With the rapid development of industrial economy, environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. The frequent occurrence of natural disasters brings threats to people's lives. In the early stage, through questionnaire survey and demand analysis, the product function and use mode are positioned, and then the first draft of the product is obtained by brainstorming and concept sketch. Rhino is used for modeling, Keyshot for rendering and PS for use scenario and typesetting and finally simulation test is carried out.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part is to fully consider the complexity and variability of disaster environment, how to design better practical products to assist the rescue work of search and rescue personnel.
- Realization and Technology
- It is formed by mould, and then fixed to the structure frame of plastic, aluminum alloy and composite material by riveting and screwing to form the wing and related movable surface.
- Operation and Interaction
- For the application of different environments, such as mountain or underwater environment, the rescue drone can adjust the four wing angle to change the operation mode. Through the radar to detect life features to locate the search and rescue location of survivors. When it doesn't need to work, it can be folded and put into the backpack.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2019 in Nanjing and finished in December 2020 in Nanjing.
- Specifications
- Aviation aluminum lightweight design is adopted, and the surface of the fuselage is coated with solar film coating, which can convert solar energy into electrical energy and store it in the internal battery for self supply and use. Multipoint life detection radar is on the outside of four wings, which transmits pulse electromagnetic waves in multiple directions through ultra wide spectrum radar to detect survivors.
- Keywords
- Disaster rescue, Amphibious drone, Life detection, Search location, Foldable design
