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Silver A' Design Award in Digital and Electronic Device Design Goes to Smart Touch S7 Series Screen by Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen

The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen for digital and electronic device design

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Smart Touch S7 Series Screen by Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen, designed for Guangzhou Video-Star Intelligent Co.,Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Digital and Electronic Device Design category. 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 assessed 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 Smart Touch S7 Series Screen

Smart Touch S7 Series is a smart home control panel. The touch screen shows the running status of appliances through animation effects, so lights, curtains and air conditioners can be adjusted by touch or by voice command. A floor plan on the screen allows control to be limited to one room. Attachable key and knob modules can be replaced to suit different operating preferences. The shell is made of fireproof materials and aluminium for stable use. Video intercom, security surveillance and elevator calling are also available.

About Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen

Founded in 1999, the company is one of the earliest enterprises in China to enter the video intercom and smart home industry. For more than 20 years, GVS has continued to cultivate in the field of space intelligence. Its business covers smart home, smart community, smart building, smart medical care, smart hotel, rail transit and other fields, providing global customers with smart home, video intercom and other smart solutions. Control system products and integrated solutions. At present, tens of thousands of projects in more than 100 countries and regions around the world have realized intelligence.

Award Record

This recognition makes Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Digital and Electronic Device Design Award

The A' Consumer Electronics Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good consumer electronics designs by leading brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to consumer electronics designers, consumer electronics brands, consumer electronics manufacturers and electronic product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, laptops, televisions, cameras, headphones and smartwatches. Awarded consumer electronics designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/consumer-electronics

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Smart Touch S7 Series Screen
Function
Screen
Category
Digital and Electronic Device Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Electronics & Appliances
Colors
White Smoke, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Light Gray and Gray
Images
5
Client
Guangzhou Video-Star Intelligent Co.,Ltd

The Recognition

Laureate
Liping Li, Jiguang Ren and Jiayun Cen
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2022 - 2023
Design ID
#148566

Credits

Team
Liping Li, Jiguang Ren, Jiayun Cen, Dan Liu, Yongjian Peng and Xiangjun Zhu

Design Details

Unique Properties
Designed with a focus on the intelligence trend, the Smart Touch S7 Series comes with a powerful operating system to provide the gamut of control functions for a smart home, such as smart appliance control, video intercom, and security surveillance. The touch screen with an intuitive user interface design, as well as the attachable knob modules, ensures clear visual facilitation to facilitate efficient operation.
Inspiration
This series is designed to resolve the contradiction between the development of modern smart home and the limitation of using an app for smart home control. Common smart home apps are often inconvenient to operate, and fail in whole house smart control. Therefore, multiple key and knob modules are available in this series to meet diverse operation preferences, which can be replaced and attached to the screen for scalability. With varied finishes, these modules take on a rich sense of layering.
Research
With the popularity of smart home systems, consumers expect to enjoy more functions for a smart home, along with an inclination to purchase varied smart home appliances. Contradictory to this situation is the single functional mode of the smart panels on the current market, which means they are unable to deliver various functions, unless working with other smart devices. For an instance, additional security cameras and intercom doorbells are needed for home security surveillance.
Challenge
During the design and development process, the designers was tasked to improve the safety and protection performance of this series. The result is this rugged smart panel with a shell made of fireproof materials and space aluminum, which can function well in case of an emergency and set off prompts or alarms to alert users. When any exception occurs in smoke alarms or door magnetic sensors, this panel will trigger alarms promptly, and synchronize the information to the app on the smart phone.
Realization and Technology
Constructed by using fireproof materials and space aluminum, this series is able to work stably in harsh environments. The key module has its indicators treated by metal microporous technology to minimize light pollution. The knob module is made up of a glass cover and a stainless steel knob. The diamond texture on the knob is created by crossing knurling, which is further electroplated for a metallic lustre and can be refracted in light, spicing up the wall with a rich play of light and shadow.
Operation and Interaction
Users can flexibly control the lights, curtains, air conditioners, and other home appliances by voice commanding or using the icons that visualize the appliance running status through animation effects. The panel also allows users to narrow the control area down to a specific room simply by clicking on the floor plan displayed in the touch screen. More functions are readily available on the panel such as video intercom, security surveillance, and elevator calling.
Project Duration and Location
The design and development of the panel series started in April 2022, Guangzhou. It will be introduced to the Chinese market in October, 2023.
Keywords
Smart home, Control panel, Modular design, Replaceable key modules, Whole house intelligent control

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