NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手 by Hongtao Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 办公与商务电器设计 Competition Category.

铁办公电器· 2020

NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手

by Hongtao Zhang

Client: Zhang Hongtao Designer

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 办公电器 Category

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The Design

About NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手

NIRO-Hi 是一款专为会议室打造的语音控制智能助手。会议通过语音即可启动，无需手动录入数据，只需说出姓名即可查找联系人。室内的空调、窗帘、投影仪与照明等互联设备同样可通过语音控制。顶部配有触摸屏与按键，可在需要时进行手动操作。顶部扬声器周围环绕的动态灯带可显示当前状态。手机与电脑均可连接，以支持线上会议。哑光白配色赋予产品柔和的外观质感。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。NIRO-Hi 智能会议室助手因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

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