NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理 by Hongtao Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 辦公室電器設計 Competition Category.

鐵辦公室電器· 2020

NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理

by Hongtao Zhang

Client: Zhang Hongtao Designer

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 辦公室電器 Category

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The Design

About NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理

NIRO-Hi係一款專為會議室設計嘅語音控制智能助理。會議可以透過語音啟動,唔需要人手輸入資料,聯絡人亦可以用講話嘅方式搜尋。房間內連接嘅設備,包括空調、窗簾、投影機同燈光,同樣可以用語音控制。頂部設有觸控屏幕同按鈕,方便有需要時進行手動操作。頂部揚聲器周圍嘅動態光環會顯示目前狀態。手機同電腦都可以連接,方便進行網上會議。啞光白色外殼令整體外觀更加柔和。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。NIRO-Hi 智能會議室助理因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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