Nobi Smart Lamps wins 8 desired MUSE Design Awards
The reward for the hard work of the Antwerp tech scale-up.
Antwerp, 14 April 2023 -Nobi Smart Lamps is thrilled to announce that they have been recognized with 8 awards in the first competitive season of 2023 by the MUSE Creative and Design Awards. Out of over 6300 entries from around the world, Nobi Smart Lamps has successfully transformed their 8 nominations into awards for their innovative AI-driven smart lamp for fall prevention and detection in the following categories:
- Unexpected Product Design
- Healthcare Product
- Healthcare Lighting
- Smart technologies
- Healthcare facilities - interior lighting
- Future technologies
- Safety product
- Smart Home product
The smartest lamp in the world
Nobi is the smartest lamp in the world, focusing on fall detection, fall prevention and fall prediction. With a sophisticated AI-model and cutting-edge technology, the smart lamp offers safety while meeting the highest design standards.
Nobi empowers elderly to live at home longer. In care facilities, Nobi supports busy caregivers by taking over repetitive, administrative tasks and summarizing important parameters in one easy form. The smart lamp also brings caregivers peace of mind by keeping an eye out 24/7, assuring them that immediate help can be provided when a fall occurs.
Product design as accelerator for disruption
The world is facing an ever-increasing pressure on qualitative elderly care due to a fast ageing population. Nobi believes technology can support the care sector to prepare itself for the ‘ageing tsunami’ looming over us. Age tech products like Nobi are able to fundamentally disrupt today’s elderly care and make a difference in the lives of millions of elderly people, their families and their caregivers.
To succeed, Nobi is also convinced that product design will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between elderly & care technology. In its ambition to convince elderly people to adopt new high tech technologies, Nobi felt the urge to develop a product that people not only ‘need’, but also ‘wánt’. That’s why Nobi came up with a lifesaving fall detection device in the form of a stylish … lamp.
This everyday object doesn’t resemble typical care technology and blends in in every interior. When developing Nobi, 4 design principles were used as a guide: the lamp had to be simple, discreet, user-friendly and cosy. This makes Nobi different from existing fall detection technologies that are often perceived as intrusive and stigmatizing.
“If we want new technologies to make a difference in the lives of people, we need to start creating solutions people want, not need. We are honoured to have received these 8 MUSE-awards as they recognize our dedication to disrupt the care sector by combining high tech innovation with empathic product design. At Nobi, we surround ourselves with actors within care and policy who dare to tread unbeaten paths and look beyond the wall in a disruptive way. We are delighted that the jury of the MUSE design awards encourages our movement to work on a more sustainable future of elderly care,” said Roeland Pelgrims, CEO of Nobi.
Matías Papalini and Marko Filipic from the design agency Watif deserve a special mention for their exceptional work in translating Nobi's vision for a discreet care device that seamlessly integrates into any interior into a stylish and elegant lamp.
The Antwerp tech scale-up has previously won awards. In 2021, the company received the Consumer Award from the Henry van De Velde Gold Prize, as well as the prestigious German Design Award for Excellent Product Design - Medical, Rehabilitation, and Health Care.
About the Muse Creative and Design Awards
The MUSE Design Awards was a part of the MUSE Awards Program, which was created by the International Awards Associate (IAA) in 2015. IAA’s inception was based on a mission to honor, promote and encourage creativity by providing a new standard of excellence for evaluating media design production and distribution. Fundamentally, the MUSE Design Awards is an international competition for designers whose craftsmanship shift paradigms. Their ingenuity and thorough works leave others in awe, and in doing so redefine boundaries and scope – much like a muse.
Liesbeth Pyck