Press Release
L Hotel Smart Control Panel by Qiang Liu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Smart Living and Home Automation Design
Qiang Liu acknowledged for smart living and home automation design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ L Hotel Smart Control Panel by Qiang Liu, designed for Zhejiang Tuya Smart Electronics Co.,Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Smart Living and Home Automation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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.
About L Hotel Smart Control Panel
L is a smart control panel designed for hotel rooms. The panel replaces traditional wall switches and connects to the smart devices in the room. An automatic mode button adjusts lights, curtains, air conditioning and speakers according to the time and conditions at check-in. An eight-inch high-definition touch display and two speaker modules are included. The frame is made of polycarbonate with glass fiber, and the sound grille is anodized aluminum alloy. Different wireless protocols are linked, so devices from various brands can be controlled from one place.
About Qiang Liu
TUYA is a leading technology company dedicated to making life smarter. Tuya provides a cloud platform that can intelligently connect everything, creating interconnected development standards, connecting brands, OEM manufacturers, developers, retailers, and the intelligent needs of various industries. Tuya's solutions empower and enhance the product value of partners and customers, while making consumers' lives more convenient through technology applications.
Award Record
Qiang Liu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/142490
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/142490
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!142490
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/250165
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- L Hotel Smart Control Panel
- Function
- Hotel Smart Control Panel
- Category
- Smart Living and Home Automation Design
- Discipline
- Product Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Black, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang Tuya Smart Electronics Co.,Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Qiang Liu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #142490
Credits
- Team
- Yugeng Zhong, Bingbing Qi, Wenkai, LiXiaoyu Jiang and Junwen Liu
- Image Credits
- Designer Qiang Liu, Industrial designer, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Hotel smart control panel can directly replace traditional wall switches, efficiently connecting to the smart devices in the room. The shortcut button of "auto mode" will adjust the smart devices, such as lights, curtains, air conditioners, speakers, etc. according to the check-in environment and time, simplify operation and bring a more comfortable check-in experience. the panel has a 8-inch high-definition touch display, with two high-quality speaker modules ensuring the panel a high level of sound quality.
- Inspiration
- Intelligent hotel is a high-end design that integrates information and communication technology with hotel management. It is designed to meet the personal needs of guests and improve the quality of hotel management and service. As a central control product connected to all the intelligent devices in the room, the smart control panel has also become the main entrance for users to enjoy the intelligent experience of the hotel.
- Challenge
- Technically, it is necessary to get through the technical barriers between Bluetooth, WIFI, ZigBee and other protocols, to connect the control of smart home devices of different brands, and to control smart devices when the network is disconnected.
- Realization and Technology
- Frame adopts PC+ glass fiber design, so that the product can better protect the product on the basis of light weight. Sound grille part of the aluminum alloy anodic oxidation process, better to ensure the quality of products
- Operation and Interaction
- This product, coupled with the new I-Share AI, can efficiently link and control smart home devices of different brands across various protocols, and can achieve remote voice control through omnidirectional linear array microphone. The "automatic mode" shortcut key set by the product can be used according to the time and weather of checking in. Adjust the lighting, curtains, air conditioning, speakers and other intelligent equipment in the room to the corresponding working state
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Hangzhou in June 2021, was completed in Shenzhen in May 2022, and was listed in August 2022
- Specifications
- length * width * height=234 * 10* 128mm
- Keywords
- Smart Housekeeper、whole house control、smart control pane、bookmark button design、situational model
