.png)
Team project
I was co-manager of this project that was done in collaboration with a startup that had developed a proprietary system solution for a B2B market in the audio space.
Final Goal
Give access to a multi-room premium sound experience adapting to different spaces and
needs of different stakeholders with Amplitude Audio's technology.
Brief
How can we create the new Amplitude sound ecosystem: the simple premium
sound experience wherever you want, wherever you are?
Axis
-01.png){kind=icon}
Build a brand DNA
Smart Installation
interaction
Acoustic optimisation
Sustainable
Hands on with the prototype
.jpg)
technical components optimisation
*majority of the sketches are mine
CMF boarding
Branding
Building a brand DNA
Prototyping the speaker into 1:1. Here we were able to collaborate with a 3D printing company where they sponsored a part of the making charges for the prototype as they found the project really interesting and further even documented it for their advertising.
speaker head
Top of the speaker is enabled with vents and a source cable outlet to which the whole body is suspended.
The top speckled part acts like a grip when carried around and dissembled. And it’s vertical lined pattern adds a visual harmony to the speaker making it look slimmer.
Heated airflow explained
The positioning of the speaker is strategic to avoid the speaker from heating. As warm air rises it was ideal to have the openings in the upper half.
Assembly
The internals of the speaker comprises of the mother board, an LED, a sound card and the speaker cone. The sound card and mother board are assembled on a single chase onto which they are screwed and later wired to the bottom speaker cone.
There is a substantial amount of space around the speaker cone from the rest to optimise acoustics and avoid the vibration of the internal components.
To ease the flow of maintenance we thought of a 2 step process to dismantle the internals.
First unscrew the bottom lid mesh to detach the sound cone from the main frame.
And step 2 where you unscrew the top lid where you can easily pull out the chase that contains the sound card and the mother board.
This action is very simple and seamless just like pulling out cookies from a jar.
Motion Detection
A strong point that make Aurore a valuable sell is its motion detection ability.
The bottom black ring contains 4 IR or motion detection sensors that helps not only optimise the acoustics of the space but also make it extremely sustainable and cost effective.
Motion Detection
The 4 sensors communicate to form a sensing field which helps track movement to adjust sound and turn on to stand by mode when no one is around.
To explain the ecosystem better here are a few visuals of a jewellery store.
Here due to less amount of people present in the store, you can see that some speakers go on standby mode therefore saving energy and being sustainable.
User scenario
As time passes by the store reaches its peak hour and more customers enter. With that the noise in the store increases and to compensate all this the speakers adjust to the environment giving its customers an ideal shopping experience.
Visual representation of consumption
For each room, one can see it's current status and the energy saved.
