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Core77 Design Awards 2017

Results Announced for Community Choice Prize See All Winners

VARA -SMART LIGHTING

VARA system works with a new interaction technology that means you can control every single LED via your smartphone. You can create myriad different light situations with just a touch or a swipe on our bespoke app. You and your smartphone (iOS or Android) can create unique lighting effects, leave notifications, save and play preloaded lighting scenarios and monitor your energy consumption. VARA is plug and play, so you can use it immediately out of the box. It's designed to be modular, so you can build up components around your home and individual style – a super-slim LED strip and base module can be augmented to become a table lamp, floor lamp, pendant light, shelf light, integrated light etc. You can build up groups of lights to suit your needs. There's no switch needed, so you can control VARA from wherever you are in the home or office, thanks to Bluetooth and Wifi connections. VARA also saves up to 80 per cent of the energy of traditional lighting systems, so you can save on your consumption, and monitor via our custom-made app. The LED technology in VARA already saves you up to 60 per cent compared to traditional incandescent lighting. Coupled VARA's patented smart control system that allows you to control every single LED, and you're able make up to 80 per cent energy savings, helping your household costs and also your environment. To make VARA's design sensory, we selected the most suitable components and materials, the most pleasing surfaces and the most skillful means of processing. It's part of our core values that VARA is produced to a masterful degree of quality by specialized companies in close proximity to the design and development team. Expert hands turn an idea into a product that meets the highest German standards of operation and finish.

Luminaire VARA has been developed for the highest degree of individuality, flexibility and variability within digital and smoother light. Based on modular components and equipped with a revolutionary, digital light control system, the app will meet your needs and will turn your VARA into a digital lighting project that brings the future of lighting to our homes. The modular building kit system, consisting of a light strip + round receptacle + additional element, makes VARA a luminaire that can be brought into a wide range of application scenarios. Only the additional element changes. The light strip and round receptacle remain as fixed components for the individual application fields. The light strip is also swivel and pushable, which gives a further variabilityIs provided. The modular construction principle can be used to create substructure, table, hanging, standing and wall luminaires. Luminaire VARA is controlled by app. Each individual LED is controllable, selectable and dimmable. The user interface of the app works according to the Holy Trinity principle of light control and was developed for the best User Experience, Joy of Use and Usability. As on a harp, the "strings" can be played and produced at VARA light, depending on where you touch them. Each "string" is therefore an LED. Light is thus intelligible on the smartphone and can be experienced in a playful way. An experience that is expressed in the quality of the user interface and the associated user experience. The app becomes an instrument, light becomes a sensual medium and VARA becomes a digital light object, which adapts to our everyday life. VARA convinces with the principle of controlling each individual LED with a completely new user experience, which simultaneously brings the potential of an additional energy saving effect automatically.
Functional description App
1. Light On (double-dip - two fingers)
2. Select individual LED (single tip - one finger at the desired location)
3. Select the light range (horizontal wipe from left to right with one finger)
4. Clear the light area (horizontal wipe from right to left with a finger)
5. Move the light area (keep the light area with a finger for one second, then move it)
6. Dim the lamp (vertical wiping with one finger)
7. Light off (double-dip - two fingers)
8. Select lamps individually
9. Grouping and de-grouping of luminaires
10. Storing and recalling scenes
11. automatic program sequences (for example, function alarms - single switching on of each individual LED)

BENEFITS OF VARA
1. COMFORT
+ Best user experience and clever light control (the beauty of the simple)
+ No switch necessary (simple control from the couch or any place, eg switch on / off even outside the building, automatic switch off when the house is left ... never again to forget the light forgotten)
+ Functional lighting control (spots, lighting of different sizes possible, programming and saving of scenes, dimming, controlling each individual led, at any time control over its energy consumption, prognoses about energy consumption..etc.)
+ Modular system, plug and play, with a light strip and a receptacle, the user can bring the light into a wide range of applications (table, wall, floor, ceiling, wardrobe, bed, etc.)
+ Visual information (flashing or pulsating) via an incoming call or incoming mail
+ Automatic program runs (eg alarm function ... switch of individual leds in a certain time period bi the bar is completely lit)
2. SAFETY
+ Prevention through light control from the holiday (as if one At home)
+ Prevention by automatically playing light scenarios (as if One would be at home)
+ When burglar lights go on completely (or if even someone Unauthorized already approaches the house)
+ Running light in the hallway (prevention of stumbling hazard)
+ Warning light (for example, flashing) during fire, burglary, water damage, etc.
+ Switch on automatic light below the bed when standing up In the dark (prevention accident, tripping danger)
+ Automatic emergency call in the event of an accident or emergency in the house (movement sensor does not detect any movement even though person in the house, older people)
3. ENERGY
+ Reduce energy consumption by up to 80%, using LED technology and smart light control (control of each LED)
+ Displays the current energy consumption
+ Display current consumption
+ Compared to the previous year
+ Energy cost display, control, comparison

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Results Announced for Community Choice Prize See All Winners
  • Honoree

    Matthias Pinkert

  • Client

    HOLY TRINITY

  • Category

    Furniture & Lighting

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