NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタント by Hongtao Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in オフィス・ビジネス機器デザイン Competition Category.

鉄オフィス機器· 2020

NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタント

by Hongtao Zhang

Client: Zhang Hongtao Designer

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in オフィス機器 Category

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The Design

About NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタント

NIRO-Hiは、会議室向けに設計された音声操作対応のスマートアシスタントです。音声で会議を開始できるため、手作業でのデータ入力は不要で、連絡先も声で呼び出せます。空調、カーテン、プロジェクター、照明など、室内の接続機器も音声で制御可能です。上面のタッチスクリーンとボタンにより、必要に応じて手動操作も行えます。上部スピーカーを囲むダイナミックなライトベルトが、現在のステータスを表示します。携帯電話やパソコンを接続してオンライン会議を行うこともできます。マットホワイトの仕上げが、柔らかな印象を与えています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタントは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタントは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。NIRO-Hi スマート会議室アシスタントは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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. User can also remotely control all IOT hardware during meeting with voice recognition interaction, including air conditioner, curtain, projector & lighting. The top dynamic light belt has rich status indication delivering a smart and agile use experience. NIRO-Hi can interconnect mobile phones & computers to complete high-quality online meetings.
Dimensions & Packaging: 337mm x 363mm x 72mm
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Office equipment, Smart assistant，IOT，Voice Recognition
Production 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
Design 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
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
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.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Beijing and ends in January 2020.
Operation Flow: 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.
Team Members: Zhang Hongtao
Liu Daiyan
Yang Fan
Li Shiyan
Wu Zhun
Zhi Libo