AlertMe Excels with Double Awards Triumph
Submitted on March 9, 2009
AlertMe, Europe’s smart home pioneer, has received two prestigious awards in the space of a week. Last week, AlertMe picked up a Shell Springboard Award of £40,000. Recognised as the UK’s leading climate change award, this was given to AlertMe for its innovative home Energy Saving service - which allows home owners to measure how much energy they are consuming and automatically controls appliances to reduce energy consumption. This week, the company also scooped the joint first prize in the Design Week Awards’ Consumer Product Design category alongside Apple’s MacBook Air, in recognition of the unique design of its wireless Home Monitoring and Security service.
Commenting on the decision to attribute the Design Week award to AlertMe, one of the judges said: “Wow! We have been waiting for something like this to be designed. It has a genius quality, is a brilliant idea and has a friendly interface.”
Pilgrim Beart, director of AlertMe said: “To have our team’s efforts at making objects of desire of both home security and home energy management recognized by these highly acclaimed awards is absolutely thrilling. Receiving equal status with the MacBook Air at the Design Week Awards is praise indeed! Our thanks go to our industrial designers, EG Technology and DesignEdge, for a truly cracking job.”
Adding to this, Danny Godfrey, director of EG Technology said: “”These award-winning products are the culmination of a very close working relationship with an excellent client and design team. We are particularly proud of our design contribution to the SmartPlug, which will make a small but significant contribution to reducing the carbon footprint of AlertMe users.”
Bruce Hutchison, from product design and development consultancy DesignEdge, who was involved in designing the security devices within the kit as well as the packaging, comments: “Our challenge was to create a range of products that not only looked great within the stylish homes of target consumers, but were also as compact as possible and intuitive to use, right down to considering in which order people would open the boxes. It was one of our biggest challenges yet, but well worth it.”
