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R FUTU E OF R M THE HO E M How design and technology are meeting the need to maintain health, safety, purpose and wellbeing at home in light of the pandemic. ARITCO REPORT 2021 P OW E RE D BY
INNOVATION FUTURE OF THE HOME REPORT OVERVIEW O PURPOSE CONTENT This report was compiled by Springwise in This report explores the future of the home partnership with Aritco to explore how the through the lens of consumers and the innovators COVID-19 pandemic is shaping life within the working to meet their evolving needs. In particular, home. It offers valuable insight into key trends, how a desire for well-designed hygienic, calming, the latest technologies and innovations from and purpose-driven solutions are reimagining the across the globe that reveal how our living home, and how the home ecosystem is changing environments are rapidly changing. to incorporate all facets of daily life. 4 A Message From Aritco — Next Level Living 5 A Message From Springwise — #InnovationForGood 6 Reimagining What a Clean, Safe and Sustainable Home Looks Like 22 An Evolving Home Ecosystem to Stay Healthy and Connected INNOVATIONS CLEAN, SAFE AND EVOLVING HOME SUSTAINABLE HOME ECOSYSTEM 12 Artistic Air Purifier 30 Modular Home Office (Sauberair) (MUTABOR) 13 Antibacterial Ceiling Fan 31 Optimised Video Presentations (Nanyang Technological University) (All Turtles) 14 Ceiling Air Purification 32 Data Encryption Device (Armstrong World Industries) (Winston Privacy) 15 Energy-Harvesting Windows 33 Remote Respiratory Monitor (US Department of Energy) (Turtle Shell Technologies) 16 Infrared Home Heater 34 Virtual Travel Tour (Koleda) (Visit Faroe Islands) 17 Circadian Lightbulbs 35 AI Music Therapy (TUO & University of Washington) (Muru Music Health) 18 Antibacterial Modular Room Kits 36 Grocery Voice Ordering (MINIWIZ) (Carrefour and Google) 19 Sanitising Shelf 37 AR Art Viewing Tool (Umeå Institute of Design & Electrolux) (Etsy) 20 Contactless Lift Panels 38 Predictive Maintenance Platform (Techmax Solution) (Augury) Air Heat Light Touchless Work Health & Shopping Wellbeing 2 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 3
INNOVATION FUTURE OF THE HOME NEXT LEVEL LIVING N Innovation has been at the core of Aritco’s values since the retrofitted into almost any home, the Aritco HomeLift went on to ecosystem. The research and development team at Aritco has company was founded in Sweden win a Red Dot Product Award been working hard integrating some in 1995. Over the years, we have 2017 and a Gold Medal at the of these innovations, particularly revolutionised the lift industry with European Product Design Awards. the use of antibacterial UV light into a simple idea – opening up spaces It was also nominated for the Best the design of both the public and for everyone by improving mobility Domestic Design category at the commercial lifts, as well as the home everywhere and blending efficiency Wallpaper* Design Awards, was lifts, to adapt to this “new normal”. with aesthetics. We call it “Next named a finalist for Stora Design Level Living”. We design our lifts Priset (Great Design Prize) 2017 We hope you enjoy this deep-dive based on the company’s focus and was one of five finalists for into the global innovations that on Scandinavian design, smart the Grand Award of Design by will shape our homes in 2021 and functionality and safety, and we Teknikföretagen and Svensk Form. beyond. Watch this space for news have manufactured and installed from Aritco about how our lifts will them in more than 35,000 private The COVID-19 pandemic has meant continue to revolutionise how we homes, schools, offices and retail that a high percentage of the move around our homes in safety, stores around the world. world’s population has spent most comfort and style. CREDIT: ISTOCK of 2020 confined to our homes In 2016, the design team at which have become hubs for work, David Schill Aritco turned its attention to the exercise and education as well as Marketing Director, Aritco Lift domestic setting and launched leisure. Design and technology aritco.com #InnovationForGood the Aritco HomeLift, taking have driven new innovations that residential accessibility to a new support the evolution of the home level. Designed as a customisable into a clean, safe and sustainable piece of furniture that can be space with an integrated, digital Despite the unprecedented all, via our website, daily and with most things, the pandemic disruption in how we all now live, weekly email newsletters, and has accelerated existing trends we at Springwise have been the Springwise Innovation while spurring brand new ones — laser-focused on the positive smartphone app. including a hyper-focus on health innovation that has come in and wellness and the urgent need response to the global COVID-19 Above all, what drives us is to be to adapt our living environments pandemic. Some of the most a force for good in a world that to co-exist with where we now promising solutions we’ve seen needs all of the positive inspiration work and shop from on an have been targeted at the home it can get. This is why our focus increasingly frequent basis. environment, as you’ll see in the is on #InnovationForGood — the pages that follow. solutions aiming to solve the Such drastic shifts are not easy most pressing problems with to adjust to, especially under the But first, a few words about sustainable and purpose-driven fog of a deadly health crisis and Springwise and what we do. ideas. Along with our parent the anxieties that it provokes. But We are the world’s leading company Re_Set, a London- based on history and what we’ve idea-spotting network and we based boutique consultancy seen in 2020, the most important have been publishing the most for disruption, innovation and innovation often comes out of interesting business innovations sustainability, we are a proud times of great hardship. We since 2002. Our mission is to be Certified B Corporation and hope you find our take on the the place of record for innovations members of 1% For The Planet. We future of the home informative that matter — to spot the take a purpose-driven approach as well as inspirational. innovators, the entrepreneurs, the to all of the work we do, including original thinkers, the disrupters what you’ll find in this report, Justin Sablich and the outliers from across the which we’ve proudly compiled on Editor, Springwise developed and developing world behalf of our friends at Aritco. springwise.com and to bring these new ideas to a wide readership. Access to The development of sophisticated P OW E R E D BY Springwise’s daily innovations, technology has been making homes and extensive database of over smarter, safer, and more sustainable 10,000 solutions, is now free for for several years now. But, as 4 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 5
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME REIMAGINING WHAT ANTIMICROBIAL AND TOUCHLESS A A ‘CLEAN AND SAFE’ Many designs are beginning to include are likely to remain a constant, especially for O S HOME L OKS LIKE touchless options, for both ease of use and increased sanitation. people desiring a return to in-person work and leisure activities. Already, O High traffic zones of the designs, materials and home with frequently processes previously As we spend more time at home, there’s a desire for well-designed contacted objects now associated with and hygienic solutions to ensure a safe environment and a turn toward require layouts and used predominantly in arrangements that can commercial and public stress-relieving, calming, and purpose-driven solutions. incorporate additional places have become layers of safety practices relevant to and required and procedures. in peoples’ living spaces. Pre-pandemic, wiping noses on As people try to keep Experts predict that tissues rather than their distance from each the wet tissue and wipe sleeves and washing other while indoors, market will increase hands when working in living spaces, too, are by more than ¤5.3 the kitchen were fairly being reconsidered for billion by 2024,A with prosaic measures for maximum efficiency and the nascent global health. Most people safety. Even with the antimicrobial coating for sterilisation and antimicrobial followed them most possibility of a vaccine market expanding to disinfectant. Innovators characteristics into of the time. Since bringing relief from ¤4.1 billion by 2025.B are already looking everything from clothing early 2020, however, the need for extreme This growth is driven in beyond household and edible films on fresh the concept of what shielding and isolation, large part by significant cleaning products produce to personal constitutes clean (and high levels of hygiene increases in the need and incorporating devices and wall paint. safe) underwent rapid, radical change. The home has now gone beyond simply being a place to As well as what we the rest of the home, its relax, eat and spend time with family. It INDOOR AIR touch, what we breathe has come under gadgets and occupants’ way of life. has become a place of work, a ward for QUALITY increased scrutiny. Dealing with urban Industry standards illness, a vacation smog was a good continue to intensify destination, a centre training ground for as the characteristics of of education, the technologies and COVID-19 become local fitness centre systems now required better understood. and more. As within almost every Amongst the scientific knowledge building, residential worldwide community, of COVID-19 and commercial. comprehension that this grows, consumers is unlikely to be the last, are responding Air purification is fast or only, global pandemic by adopting new becoming a household in modern times is behaviours and imperative, and even slowly seeping into our adapting old more so for families with collective consciousness. approaches. Every vulnerable members of This understanding item that enters the all ages. Systems and further drives demand home is viewed now devices that work on for devices that are no through a lens of everyday moulds, dust longer a luxury nor for extreme hygiene. and asbestos must now city dwellers alone. By Where has it been? work on microscopic, 2027, the international Who touched it? How infectious virus particles. air purifier market is much risk is everyone And they must expected to attain sales comfortable with? seamlessly integrate with of ¤18.2 billion.C 6 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 7
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME A SENSE OF PURPOSE With additional time to for waste-to-energy consider how and why programmes, starting things are done the to garden, eating root way they are, people to stem, composting around the world spent and reducing waste, a significant amount consumption done in of time in lockdown and for the home is contemplating their increasingly tailored for environmental impact. wellbeing. And not just The home has become individual wellness. a canvas for sustainable experimentation. The concept of doing no harm to the Against a backdrop surrounding environment HOME of decline in many other industries, has moved out from the hiking trails and wild COMFORTS renewable energy grew in 2020. By 2025, campsites to everyday purchasing, activities renewables are predicted and commitments. to become the largest Individuals in vast No one can forget the Health at home used to Designers and architects In replicating functions source of electricity numbers are now images of mountains mean general safety are following the mass that used to take place generation worldwide, considering the effects brought into view for the features for those with exodus from city centres elsewhere in the thus finally knocking of their actions on first time in decades, wild limited mobility. Now the to homes with community, house and coal off the top spot in communities, societies animals roaming city concept encompasses innovations that go far garden improvements the energy market.E and the Earth itself. And streets and water clarity a host of additional beyond single-use must meet a despite broad and deep that hadn’t been seen in aspects. Telemedicine structures or devices. considerable list of As part of a global move levels of isolation across a lifetime, all because programmes reach more Research into sensory criteria. Ease of use towards climate-neutral almost every nation, the humans were staying vulnerable, isolated inputs combined with and ability to integrate behaviours, individual sense of being connected indoors. With our activity individuals than ever developments in with other household choices are heightening to a greater good helps increasingly confined before, with the global material science appliances are of the focus on materials, sustain many people, to the spaces in which telemedicine market size contributes to multi- particular consideration. functionality and whether or not they CREDIT: ISTOCK we live, comfort and projected to grow by layered designs centred Incorporating wellbeing carbon emissions. From are living alone, as wellbeing have 23.5 per cent by 2026.D on end-users’ comfort. into home hubs of choosing biodegradable part of a family or in commandeered more With mental health care Naturally grown activity requires well- packaging to advocating shared spaces. attention. Far from being gaining parity with ingredients and designed solutions that an extravagance for those physical care, everything sustainable practices are provide surprising and with time to spare, health from the impact of widely viewed as unexpected amounts A Technavio Research, November 2020 and wellness at home the built environment necessities, particularly of functionality via B Antimicrobial Coating Market Report | Reportlinker.com, November 2020 C Global Air Purifier Market Report | ResearchAndMarkets.com, November 2020 have become foundational to how we work is as access to nature was minimal climate and D Telemedicine Market Report | Kenneth Research, November 2020 to our survival. being improved. so reduced in 2020. spatial footprints. E Global Renewable Energy Report | International Energy Agency, November 2020 8 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 9
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME WHAT WHAT Air purifier doubles Eco-friendly ceiling as attractive home fan that kills germs decor WHO WHO Nanyang Sauberair Technological University WHERE Taiwan WHERE Singapore CONTACT biz@sauberair.com CONTACT lesterkok@ntu. edu.sg CREDIT: SAUBERAIR CREDIT: ISTOCK, NTU SINGAPORE AN INVISIBLE AIR PURIFIER DISGUISED AS A PIECE OF ART The Sauberair FLAT eliminates a wide range of pollutants in the air, using BLADELESS CEILING FAN USES LESS minimum power, while also being hidden from view. ENERGY AND KILLS MICROORGANISMS A newly developed system is capable of cooling a small room at twice the The Taiwan-based Despite its compact TAKEAWAY speed of a conventional fan whilst only using half the energy. company Sauberair has appearance, the made a conscious effort Sauberair FLAT is to disguise their latest capable of cleaning a Easy integration within a Researchers at the cools people around it. invention as home décor, 19-square-metre space household is essential for long- Nanyang Technological In addition, an LED TAKEAWAY creating a sleek air within 12 minutes. The term adaptation of many of the University, Singapore lamp in the centre of purifier that looks like app will alert the user emergent devices and (NTU Singapore) have the fan provides light Conventional ceiling fans wall art. when the filter, which can technologies. Designing for developed a ceiling fan in different temperatures contribute significantly to be easily removed, must beauty as well as function is one capable of cooling a of white. An ultraviolet residential electricity consumption. The Sauberair FLAT is be replaced with a new of the best ways of doing that, small room at twice the light source also helps During one month of trialling just three and a half filter press-fitted in. FLAT and something the FLAT achieves speed of a conventional to kill microorganisms Vortec at the Co-Op Café at the inches thick and uses a reliable non- through its slim shape. It also fan (about 100 cubic such as bacteria and NTU Innovation Centre, which is disguises itself as a woven fibre material filter helps make it more accessible for meters per minute), viruses, to reduce the the size of a four-room apartment custom piece of wall art that guarantees high use in smaller living spaces. With whilst using just over half spread of diseases (90 sqm), utility costs were that can be hung around dust-holding capacities. mental and physical wellness the energy (42 watts through the air in reduced by an estimated 50 per the home, while also now tied so directly to our compared to 75 watts). confined spaces. cent. Additionally, the UV eliminating a wide range This means that it has homes, purpose-driven LED lamps, produced by of pollutants. The air a longer lifespan and solutions must contribute The Vortec fan works In addition, an LED Seoul Viosys, achieved an purifier can be easily the airflow will not directly to a calming by sucking cool air from lamp in the centre of impressive 99.9 per cent controlled with an reduce rapidly when sense of safety while below the fan, diverging the fan provides light in disinfection of COVID-19. accompanying app accumulating mass providing flexibility the heat and moisture different temperatures Home appliances that and with built-in amounts of dust. The in their installation from those sitting of white. An ultraviolet can both save money smart sensors. FLAT purifier’s intakes and and application. underneath. Its UFO-like light source also helps to by using less energy automatically monitors exhausts are built around shape allows air to be kill microorganisms such and create a safe home the air quality and the sides, keeping the showered outwards from as bacteria and viruses, environment are likely reacts to provide a front face intake for the top of the spinning to reduce the spread of to be in high demand in a fresher and healthier the art, which sits in a vortex, creating an air diseases through the air post-COVID world. environment. wooden frame. curtain that falls and in confined spaces. 12 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 13
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME WHAT WHAT Ceiling panel Window prototype system that purifies harvests energy indoor air and cools in-door environments WHO Armstrong World WHO Industries US Department of Energy WHERE United States WHERE United States CREDIT: ISTOCK, ARMSTRONG CEILINGS CONTACT jenniferjohnson@ CONTACT CREDIT: ISTOCK, DENNIS SCHROEDER, NREL armstrongceilings. nrel.gov com CEILING PANEL SYSTEM WITH ULTRAVIOLET AIR PURIFICATION The system removes 97 per cent of pathogens in the first round of cleaning, bringing WINDOWS THAT BECOME SOLAR healthcare-quality disinfecting capabilities to working and living spaces. CELLS WHEN HEATED Windows are in development that can switch colours when heated by sunlight Armstrong World Able to remove 97 per TAKEAWAY to keep buildings cool and act as solar panels at the same time. Industries has partnered cent of infectious particles with Medical Illumination from the air with the International Inc. first round of cleaning, Retrofitting existing buildings Researchers at the the humidity is low, to create the 24/7 the 24/7 Defend system for new health and safety US Department of the perovskite remains TAKEAWAY Defend ceiling and air can be installed in new requirements could very well make Energy’s National transparent and purification system. The spaces or retrofitted for room for additional innovations Renewable Energy natural light is let in With much of the previous portfolio of products existing rooms. as building owners consider the Laboratory (NREL) are as normal. But when attention on improving construction includes cleanable needs of different spaces. Some developing windows the glass reaches sustainability emphasising materials ceilings and trims, Alongside the new may upgrade every area of a that automatically temperatures between and processes, it is interesting to AirAssure ceiling panels products, Armstrong nursing home or a brick-and- change colour when 35-46 °C, the vapour see developing interest in windows, and the VidaShield provides the cleaning mortar operation, whereas others heated and can also causes the perovskite which are crucial to any build and UV24 air purification and disinfecting guides may find new ways of trading act as solar panels. crystals to rearrange often the crux of a design. A range system. Used together, for a range of ceiling that require smaller numbers of The thermochromic themselves into of recent innovations focused on the collaboration brings panels, tile and trim structures. As those decisions photovoltaic technology different shapes, each improving functionality provides healthcare-quality materials, including are made, collaborations within can block glare and one changing the colour homeowners with additional means cleaning and disinfecting woods and metals. a community, whether that be reduce the need for of the glass in about of contributing to environmental capabilities to home and single buildings or a range cooling, while also seven seconds. efforts without sacrificing office spaces. As communities strive of businesses across harvesting energy from Changing from yellow, comfort or style. And with to return to in-person geographical areas and the light that can provide orange, red and brown, integrated solar technology, The AirAssure ceiling meetings within both industries, will become a source of electricity. each colour blocks light windows serve an panel design reduces work and personal life, more and more to different degrees additional purpose as a the volume of air that a mix of integrated important to new ways The windows are and cools the room source of energy, helping leaks out of a space, cleaning solutions of living and working. made from a thin film down in the process. to increase efficiency by thereby improving the and technological of an emerging solar reducing the need for performance of filtration improvements are cell material called The NREL team believes panels elsewhere. systems. The ultraviolet becoming essential perovskite. This is that a prototype air cleaning technology to the maintenance wedged between two thermochromic sits behind the ceiling of higher standards of panes of glass, with a photovoltaic window panels, cleaning the air both public and solvent vapour injected could be developed by up to four times an hour. private cleanliness. into the gap. When the end of 2021. 14 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 15
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME WHAT WHAT Infrared Circadian home heater lightbulbs that reduces energy improve sleep consumption quality WHO WHO Koleda TUO & University of Washington WHERE Switzerland WHERE United States CONTACT koleda.co/contact CONTACT info@thetuolife.com CREDIT: TUO CREDIT: KOLEDA CIRCADIAN LIGHTBULBS PROVIDE HOME HEATER USES INFRARED PERSONALISED BODY CLOCK LIGHTING RADIATION, SAVING ENERGY TUO’s lightbulbs look like most others on the surface, yet contain app-controlled wavelengths that mimic those that occur naturally at sunrise and sunset. Using thermal radiation to heat objects directly, this in-door heater uses around 30 per cent less energy than traditional systems. Researchers from the internal rhythms are University of Washington much more powerful TAKEAWAY The Solus+, by the a warm house the minute were able to identify a than the light needed to Swiss startup Koleda, they walk in the door, TAKEAWAY cell in the retina of the activate s-cone cells. Circadian health directly influences delivers heat via infrared and prevents them from human eye that signals to Blue light products are sleep patterns, and the ¤3.7 trillion radiation, whereby heat accidentally leaving the Most home heating systems have the brain when it is time also less accurate global wellness industry A has taken is transferred directly to heat on while away. not changed much over the last few to wake and sleep. because s-cone cells note. Sleep aids and guides are the objects in the room. decades – they use a boiler to heat Named s-cones, the react to other colours. now ubiquitous, and the effects of This uses around 30 per The company claims the radiators, or force warm air through highly sensitive not getting enough, or the right cent less energy than Solus+ will not lose this vents. They rely on the principle of photoreceptor cells react TUO began selling their quality of sleep, weighs heavily on traditional convection efficiency over time and convection, which is the transfer to wavelengths of light circadian lightbulbs in many. One of the simplest methods heating systems. The is both faster and easier of heat from one place to another found at sunrise and November 2020. They of reducing stress lies in helping heater can be installed to use than traditional by the movement of a fluid that for sunset. This research was work like regular white someone else, and a reduction in by simply plugging it in, heating systems. this purpose includes air. However, then licensed to the light bulbs when not stress can make it easier to sleep and is designed as a these systems are energy-inefficient smart lighting company connected to the well, which in turn enhances smooth, flat panel that According to Koleda and expensive. Thermal radiation TUO, which used it to internet. When general health, making altruism fits almost everywhere CEO, Maxim Interbrick, heats objects directly, rather create lightbulbs that connected, the one method for improving in the home, requires no it is high time for a than warming the air around help users fall asleep and circadian bulbs emit overall wellbeing. ongoing maintenance new way to heat homes: them, making it more wake up naturally. the required wake and and will not burn out. “As the world moves energy-efficient than sleep wavelengths of towards renewable convection heating. All What was significant light, as directed by The Solus+ can also energy sources, and of this translates into a about the researchers’ the accompanying app, connect to a companion the electricity grid more affordable heating finding was the low level which allows users to app, which allows users becomes cheaper and system as well. of brightness required to create a custom to monitor and adjust cleaner, we set out to kickstart the body’s circadian schedule that the heat of each unit develop an innovative biological clock. Products will calculate the individually. It also lets solution for currently working with appropriate light modes users turn units on while environmentally blue wavelengths of light and time exposures on their way home, for conscious homeowners.” as a means of regulating automatically. A Global Wellness Institute | 2018 16 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 17
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME WHAT WHAT CREDIT: ELECTROLUX; STIJN VAN CUIJK, JAKOB KOHNLE, LAURENZ SIMONIS/UMEÄ INSTITUTE OF DESIGN Modular Adaptable Home shelf Convertible (MAC) sanitises skin room system and devices WHO WHO Miniwiz Umeå Institute of Design & Electrolux WHERE Taiwan WHERE Sweden CONTACT contact@miniwiz. CONTACT com registrator@umu.se CREDIT: MINIWIZ ANTIBACTERIAL MODULAR ROOM KITS WITH SELF-CLEANING UV TECHNOLOGY SHELVED SANITISATION STATION The walls are nano-coated with recycled aluminium and have DISINFECTS HANDS AND DEVICES an integrated ultraviolet self-cleaning system. Located at the entrance of the house, the Muhō is a post-COVID home solution that disinfects devices like smartphones and hands instantly. The circular economy The walls are made from experts and product recycled plastic bottles TAKEAWAY engineering studio and are nano-coated With the goal of creating Muhõ comes with 3 UV-C Miniwiz specialise in with recycled aluminium. When not needed for emergency post-COVID home light-enabled shelves TAKEAWAY transforming post- An integrated ultraviolet healthcare, the MAC kits could be solutions, a team at to place items such as consumer waste into self-cleaning system ideal working spaces at home or Umeå Institute of phones, keys, wallets, or Efficiency is going to increase as high-performance works with the aluminium in offices. The self-cleaning system Design have collaborated sunglasses on. Once an a design priority as many aspects materials. Their to create the kit’s keeps each room safe for use by with Electrolux to object is placed on the of life change to accommodate Modular Adaptable antiviral and antibacterial multiple groups and individuals, develop a hallway shelf, a contact-sensor post-pandemic health and safety Convertible (MAC) properties, which Miniwiz and the connectivity makes it sanitisation-station. activates the UV-C requirements. The multiple layers system upcycles such says reduces 99.9 per easy to create pods of multiple light in seconds, killing of risk-assessment and growth waste into medical- cent of bacteria count rooms for socially-distanced The Muhõ envisions a any germs that have in numbers of steps of personal grade, antiviral, while repelling viruses. team working. Additionally, as new type of furniture for accumulated on hygiene that surround almost every antibacterial remote and flexible employment homes that goes above the items. The lowest daily activity make routines and modular rooms. While the MAC kits were arrangements become more of and beyond, to keep shelf has a built-in schedules far more complicated. initially developed with a social norm, it is likely that life organised and safe. hands-free sanitiser To combat that drain on time, The MAC wards are the idea of replacing home-based professionals Made to be conveniently dispenser, allowing you creators must rethink, lightweight for easy makeshift hospital will begin looking for located at the entrance to clean your hands repurpose and invent transport and consist wards in mind, they are something more hygienic, of the home, it allows while your items are new ways of performing of interlocking parts to designed in a way to and businesslike, than you to instantly disinfect being disinfected. tasks that are essential facilitate rapid assembly. be used in a variety of the sitting room couch your device and hands, to the smooth running Each modular room settings. Using similar for a home office. preventing any potential To add an extra flair to of what has become contains negative technology and design, germs from entering the design, the Muhõ the incredibly multi- air pressure, which Miniwiz hopes to offer the house. comes with a smart functional home. helps cool the space similar setups to home mirror that not only and prevent airborne consumers and envision As UV light acts as a allows you to check how pollutants from them being used in disinfectant by breaking you look but also gives harming individuals restaurants and hotels down the DNA of any you temperature and within the space. as well. bacteria or viruses, the weather updates. 18 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 19
INNOVATION CLEAN, SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE HOME WHAT Contactless lift panel prevents spreading of germs WHO Techmax Solution WHERE India CREDIT: PHOTO BY SVEN DE KOE ON UNSPLASH, TECHMAX SOLUTION/YOUTUBE CONTACT info@techmax.co.in SYSTEM CONVERTS LIFT PANELS TO CONTACTLESS The Sparshless system is affordable and easy-to-install, allowing users to avoid coming into contact with potential viruses. The Indian IoT company The Sparshless is Techmax Solution has installed next to the TAKEAWAY developed a touchless existing panel, which will lift panel, the Sparshless, makes uninstallation an We’re starting to see a world that can be retrofitted to easier process as well where almost anything can be almost any elevator. To should the needs of a made contactless, from lift panels, call the elevator, the rider user change. shopping checkouts, home deliveries simply places their hand and more. Not only would this help below the unit. Once According to the to reduce the chance of accidental inside, they can choose company, a commercial virus transmission and curb a floor by pointing to the lift button has the global pandemics, but it could corresponding button potential to contain a also help reassure people on the Sparshless from a significant amount of to come back to work, distance of around bacteria. The company shops and restaurants, 15-20 mm. believes its innovation as well as those who are can play a major role in integrating more touchless The system is compatible preventing the spread of technology in their living with all elevators harmful bacteria where environments. It is also and aims to be both lifts are in heavy use, easy to envision this affordable and accurate. including multi-story particular type of touchless It comes with a 4, 8 or 14 apartments, commercial technology being adapted button option, but these complexes, hospitals, to make a wider range of can also be customised. malls and more. processes touchless. 20 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 21
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM AN EVOLVING O HOME ECOSYSTEM S Digital connections certainly increased in 2020, although much of the uptick TO STAY HEALTHY in time spent online was due to changes in working practices. AND CONNECTED Businesses large and small found ways to accommodate and support the unexpected and long-term need N How do we maintain meaningful connections with the outside world while integrating work, shopping and healthcare into daily home life? for many employees to work remotely. With the home, rather than the city centre, now the hub of daily activity, everyday routines changed drastically. 22 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 23
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM Lunches, doctor’s appointments, shopping, school and more went virtual almost overnight. Brands able to respond with agility found new ways of reaching regular, and new, customers — often by providing more contactless and remote items and services while incorporating aspects of emergency community care. Small coffee shops started delivering locally and added essential toiletries to their menu. Health professionals provided care via video link. Banks set up regular calls with customers. By 2025, it is estimated that at-home consumption could be a ¤2.5 trillion market, with consumer products, leisure/recreation and education the top three areas of expenditure.A For some companies, CONNECTION, the unexpected downtime meant teams NOT ISOLATION had an incredible opportunity to introduce solutions to challenges that had never been experienced before. So far, what technology mental health conditions. symptoms worse than economically by the Mixed reality shopping, can not yet do is A mix of stressors appear previously reported.C coronavirus, approached modular home working replicate the human to be compounding the changes wrought by spaces, virtual offices, touch. Millions of people the detrimental In response to and global shutdowns with and myriad telemedicine around the globe were effects the global alongside those changes, imagination and heart. options brought the separated from loved pandemic is having on outpourings of community Across distances, worries world into the home. ones for months and peoples’ wellbeing. support focused on and almost constant Such an acceleration many will remain apart The American reducing isolation and change, innovations such of digital living reduces well into 2021. Psychological strengthening networks as drive-in opera, online time-related restrictions Association found that for the most vulnerable. stand up comedy sets, on when activities Before COVID-19, 78 per cent of adults What came as a surprise DIY-kits and remote, can take place or be loneliness was a growing say the coronavirus was the wider spread robot-facilitated tours completed. This is epidemic in some of pandemic is a significant effects that aided in helped establish and ESSENTIAL useful, yet also dangerous, when the the world’s wealthiest countries. When the source of stress in their lives.B Public uplifting numerous others, including those maintain a sense of connection — different DAILY divisions between work, administration virus forced vast and immediate restrictions Health England reports an increase in the organising the care. methods from what used to be the norm, and EXPERIENCES of the home, health and recreation are so on social interactions, experts predicted an proportion of people reporting depressive Entrepreneurs in the arts and hospitality, two highly reliant on virtual aspects, but inspiring blurred, if not gone. overwhelming rise in symptoms and with industries devastated pivots nonetheless. 24 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 25
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM through the full supply chain of their purchases. with AI-powered This led to ongoing refrigerators, coffee growth in shopping makers, hoovers and decisions built around dishwashers already climate neutrality providing households and a broadened with another level in understanding of the sustainable efficiency. means of corporate lip IoT technology is service and greenwashing. growing at a rate of The result being that 15 to 20 per cent each for great numbers of year. F As the range of its people, carbon neutrality, application widens, so transparent production too does the collection processes, inclusivity of associated data, which and diversity, coupled further compounds the with hygienic and safe challenges of protecting transportation, are high online information. priority requirements of doing business with The COVID-19 pandemic a brand. has been a boon to cybercriminals. By Further automating November 2020, delivery logistics assists phishing attempts in maintaining healthy throughout the year social distancing, and had increased by 220 the use of robots and per cent. More than half drones often increases of all fraudulent sites efficiencies. Such savings masqueraded as some of could benefit a range of the biggest tech names companies, particularly on the planet, including as experts predict that Apple, Microsoft, online resale will grow by Netflix and Paypal.G 414 per cent from 2019 to 2024.E The continued rollout of DATA 5G and development of The flip side, of course, distributed computing CREDIT: ISTOCK PRIVACY of remotely operated is helping build stronger delivery services is a (and ideally safer) digital continuing decline in networks capable of human interactions. handling the greater Personalisation is one With the nucleus of most Overall, levels of comfort security cameras and activity loads that are very focused way that peoples’ lives shifting with some automation other devices, combined becoming the norm. brands are working location, we’ve seen and artificial intelligence, with the growth of fake Even when the health to assuage that loss. exponential growth namely via virtual news and knowledge emergency has passed, E-COMMERCE IN A Often dependent on augmented and mixed in digital security requirements. Businesses personal assistants, have been rising amongst the of deep fake technologies, suddenly it is likely that the expansive volume of GLOBAL PANDEMIC reality technologies, bespoke experiences suddenly had to oversee vastly distributed general public. Although privacy was a concern made the issues of data security and privacy online daily living will continue in a multitude create a connection networks of employees. for many, for millions personally relevant. of ways, particularly as through an engaging Families had to organise of others it wasn’t a innovators work to create Before COVID-19, Although a range of retailers had a head start. occasion centred on internet services for a pressing issue. News of Smart appliances are bespoke hybrids of real e-commerce was already technologies make it By May 2020, Shopify one particular person. huge swell in online traffic. the hackability of home becoming commonplace, and virtual interactions. the future of retail. possible to bring some replaced the Royal Bank And during what is Brands knew that, and of those points of of Canada as the nation’s undoubtedly one of flagships around the engagement into the largest public company.D the most bewildering A Contactless Economy Report | Deloitte, September 2020 B American Psychological Association Survey, October 2020 world were increasingly home, not all companies years of peoples’ lives, C Public Health England, November 2020 experiential and digital were ready for the pace With additional space moments of lightness, D BNN Bloomberg, May 2020 E 2021 Ecommerce Trends | ecomdash.com, November 2020 while also playing to the of change. For the most in their daily routines, joy and fun stand out F Computer Weekly, October 2020 exclusivity of location. part, established online consumers were thinking particularly brightly. G Phishing and Fraud Report | F5 Labs, November 2020 26 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 27
INNOVATIONS EVOLVING HOME O ECOSYSTEM S Work Health & Wellbeing Shopping 28 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 29
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM WHAT WHAT Modular home Digital platform for office design for creating engaging upgrading video meetings presentations WHO WHO All Turtles MUTABOR WHERE WHERE United States Germany CONTACT CONTACT hello@mmhmm. mutabor.de app CREDIT: ALL TURTLES CREDIT: MUTABOR HOME OFFICE KIT ADDS STYLE AND PLATFORM OPTIMISES ZOOM MEETINGS FLEXIBILITY TO PRESENTATIONS WITH ENGAGING FEATURES MUTABOR offers employees working from home a brand-adequate Users can choose from a vast library of virtual backgrounds, position a live video stream design for the home office workplace anywhere on-screen and synchronise backgrounds with another presenter. The Hamburg-based personal setup as The digital studio All Other features include creative design company easy as possible. TAKEAWAY Turtles has developed a virtual laser pointer; TAKEAWAY MUTABOR created the Mmhmm platform the ability to collaborate a modular furniture The idea is to This concept was crafted at the that aims to put the fun remotely on creating Aside from reinvigorating remote construction kit that can replicate the in-person height of the COVID-19 pandemic back into remote, presentations; a tool to work meetings, Mmhmm could transform one’s home presentation experience when video meetings and video meetings. synchronise backgrounds also be a game-changer for all office environment, in ways that software webinars became part of the new with another presenter, types of remote video content, amounting to a and digital add-ons normal and it aims to provide All Turtles was founded for a smooth transition; including for home-based professional upgrade of cannot, including the employers with ways to support with the realisation and to easily upload education. Making video more the remote-working ability to give standing their staff with the increasing that a lot of remote a video to sharing dynamic, without requiring any presentation experience. presentations in a way needs of a home office space. presentations that might platforms like YouTube. special skills, could increase the The system helps present similar to what would While many digital solutions have have been energetic The app works on a democratisation of video content, webinars from home with be done in-person. emerged that optimise the video in person, ended up number of remote making it more accessible and an elevated and work- conferencing experience, few take being flat and dull when conference platforms useful. According to Mmhmm, appropriate aesthetic. “The home office the physical design of the home remote. So, they set and not everyone in the Beta testers interested in the should support modern office into consideration. “In times out to design a set of meeting needs the app – app have included designers, “The Branded Home collaboration formats. of employer branding, the tools that allows anyone only the one presenting. musicians, religious leaders, Office” kit includes After all, it’s not just a attractiveness of the work to create compelling and even hospital clowns. presentation stands and matter of using adequate place goes hand in hand and interesting The company was This represents a major storage cabinets with software to facilitate with creative workplace video presentations inspired by its own opportunity to make doors doubling as display communication and design. New working themselves. Users experiences with boring video conferencing boards, providing several creative exchange on a methods call for new can choose from a and restrictive video more impactful for options for displaying laptop or static screen. spatial concepts,” the huge library of virtual conference calls, saying: users wherever they whiteboards and It is more than that. For company says. backgrounds, position “Suddenly, we were all work and live. poster-sized imagery. those who prefer to stand a live video stream just bland heads-in-a-box, There’s also an easily- during presentations or anywhere on the and it was harder than adjustable desk which, moderation, a modern background or on ever to collaborate with, like the other items, are workstation should the material you are present to, and entertain wheeled in order to enable precisely that,” discussing and even each other. So, we built make arranging your the company says. shrink or grow in size. Mmhmm to fix that.” 30 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 31
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM WHAT WHAT Data protection Contactless health device for the monitoring system entire home WHO WHO Turtle Shell Winston Privacy Technologies WHERE WHERE United States India CONTACT CONTACT support@ contact@dozee.io winstonprivacy. com CREDIT: WINSTON PRIVACY CREDIT: DOZEE REMOTE RESPIRATORY MONITOR TRACKS SMART HARDWARE SYSTEM ENCRYPTS SYMPTOMS AS PATIENT SLEEPS ALL ONLINE HOME DEVICES The contactless system can track changes in heart rate and sleeping patterns, reducing the number of unwarranted in-person medical visits. A data security platform promises to prevent all invasions of privacy within the home, from being watched by a smart TV to smartphone app data collection. Turtle Shell Technologies diagnosis or checkup in India has developed a before a condition TAKEAWAY Created by an ad-tech businesses trying to contactless health deteriorates. The system industry veteran, Winston increase sales. TAKEAWAY monitoring system. meets the clinical 98.4 Already an area of growth, remote is an easy-to-install smart Dozee uses a slim sensor per cent accuracy patient monitoring became a more hardware encryption With Winston installed, Ease of use is vital for the millions sheet that fits under a required for use in urgent need at the onset of the system that protects all invasions of privacy, of individuals and families now typical mattress and medical settings. coronavirus pandemic. Ageing users’ online privacy. from being watched by a completing the majority of their connects to the internet populations will likely further the Once running, the smart TV to smartphone activities online. With a multitude in order to capture early As well as COVID-19, the trend, as more and more families hardware filter protects app data collection, of in-real-life tasks moved to health warning signs, sensing system helps and communities become every connected device are prevented. Winston the digital sphere, quick and such as changes to heart track sleep apnea and accustomed to home-based online in the home. works by scrambling minimal set-up requirements rate and breathing and monitor chronic consultations and the use of digital and encrypting a users make it much more likely that sleeping patterns. conditions such as health records. We expect to see The system works with internet activity and appropriate safety measures hypertension and other even more focus on home- all websites, devices location with that of 20 will be installed and The system works by respiratory illnesses. based preventative care and streaming services, to 30 other Winston followed. Furthermore, tracking micro-vibrations The co-founders of the moving forward, including Amazon’s users. The groups in conjunction with the produced by the body company focus their especially with the need Alexa, webcams, smart change hourly, making it growth in connected and and uses machine research and to reduce burdens on TVs and Wi-Fi routers. impossible to track and AI-powered technologies learning and artificial development on helping overwhelmed healthcare The filter protects follow any individual. comes changes to user intelligence to build a to make preventative systems during health users from pop-ups Users have personal habits and requirements, comprehensive picture healthcare part of life. crises, and as users and cookies and, most dashboards for network making virtual security of each individual’s Future versions of continue to become importantly, blocks all analytics in order systems designed with baseline statistics and Dozee will include more comfortable with surveillance of users’ to see who is trying to inbuilt flexibility an essential overall health profile. The temperature monitoring the technology. online activity, from track them and through component of home living, goal of Dozee is to help capabilities among potential hackers and what content. working and recreation. patients access a other developments. 32 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 33
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM FAROE ISLANDS WHAT WHAT Custom VR-tours AI music therapy for home-bound platform tourists WHO WHO Muru Music Health Visit Faroe Islands CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK, MURU MUSIC HEALTH WHERE WHERE Australia Denmark CONTACT CREDIT: KIRSTIN VANG/VISIT FAROE ISLANDS (Faroe Islands) murumusic.com/ CONTACT contact info@ visitfaroeislands. com MUSIC THERAPY PLATFORM USES AI TO LONDON IMPROVE COGNITIVE FUNCTION A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE FAROE ISLANDS Muru Music Health relies on user input and AI algorithms to create personalized WITH REMOTE-CONTROLLED GUIDES playlists that aim to trigger mental health benefits. From the comfort of their own homes, virtual visitors were able to control their tour guides — camera-wearing locals — via an app. Muru Music Health has input. Customers can TAKEAWAY developed an AI music provide feedback by therapy platform for liking or disliking At the height of global COVID-19 lockdowns, heavily on tourism to augment traditional TAKEAWAY those suffering from cognitive decline. specific songs and writing comments. This merging of music therapy and AI shows great potential to The Faroe Islands, a trades such as fishing The platform, which All of this results in a support mental health ailments Danish territory, came and sheep-herding, For many, the pandemic resulted provides access to a dynamic playlist that in a way that’s easily accessible up with a way to allow and this year the in fewer social interactions and catalogue of a million keeps updating and in modern living environments. people around the world Faroe Islands had increasingly blurry boundaries songs — the majority evolving based on the A Cochrane study A on depression to go on a self-guided planned to ramp up between work and home life. On of which were released user’s feedback. “found that music therapy plus tour of the archipelago. tourism with two new top of this, the ability to travel — before the 1980s — was treatment as usual is more Camera-wearing locals 200-room hotels in one of life’s greatest pleasures created with the ageing “The difference here is effective than treatment” alone. responded to sight- the capital, Tórshavn. — was also taken away. It’s no population in mind, we are looking at the Other research has demonstrated seeing commands from Although the pandemic surprise that depression has risen but the company plans individual, and we’re similar positive results when people at home, allowing disrupted that ambition, during the pandemic, with one to expand its use to looking specifically for studying trauma and schizophrenia. virtual tourists to control the hope was that the US study A finding the disease has also address broader music to help them Music appears to act as a medium their own route. virtual tourism app increased three-fold. Innovations mental health disorders relax, exercise, or trigger for processing and addressing would encourage people like this show the potential to and support general positive memories. emotions, and can also be Virtual visitors controlled to visit in person once recreate some of the joys of travel wellbeing. That means we can’t used as a stabilising or calming their tour guide using it was safe to do so. from home, providing a much- really rely on music agent for anxiety or dysregulation. a free app and had two needed respite from the stresses A web-based platform listening of another user minutes of control over Until then, according to brought on by COVID-19, and built on Google Cloud, because it doesn’t have the guide, who also Visit Faroe Islands, they demonstrates the potential the platform uses the same effects,” Muru provided a commentary. believed that seeing to provide meaningful technology the company Music’s founder Nicc After their two minutes the islands through a experiences to those calls “AI Music Brain” Johnson says. were up it became remotely operated unable to travel for a — a human-assisted AI someone else’s turn, guide would at least variety of reasons. system that analyses Beyond broadening although virtual tourists “bring you joy and large quantities of music the health benefits could rejoin the queue inspiration during these to find similarities based derived from the for another two minutes challenging times – and on personal music taste. platform, Johnson any number of times. we, of course, hope to But unlike popular hopes to integrate the welcome you in person streaming platforms, platform with connected A Prevalence of Depression Symptoms in US Adults The remote North once you are free to Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | JAMA, Muru relies directly on devices, like home smart Atlantic islands depend travel again.” September 2020 the user’s individual speakers and wearables. A Music therapy for depression | Cochrane, 2017 34 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 35
INNOVATION EVOLVING HOME ECOSYSTEM WHAT WHAT Voice ordering AR tool to visualise of groceries prospective wall art WHO WHO Carrefour and Etsy Google WHERE WHERE United States CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK, UNSPLASH France CONTACT CONTACT etsy.com/contact presse_france@ carrefour.com CARREFOUR AND GOOGLE PARTNER ON VOICE-BASED GROCERY SHOPPING The French retailer became the first in the world to offer its customers the voice shopping service on Google Assistant. CREDIT: ETSY Carrefour Group, the to deliver simple, TAKEAWAY AR FEATURE ALLOWS SHOPPERS French retailer operating frictionless and deeply stores across 30 relevant experiences for TO VISUALISE WALL ART countries, partnered with shoppers in France.” There is growing evidence US tech giant Google that consumers are becoming to launch a voice-based Users are able to give a more comfortable using voice- e-commerce grocery specific voice command recognition devices in the home The tool enables users to get a sense of an Etsy’s products’ size, shopping experience. to start the experience and are seeing voice assistants as look and feel in their space of choice. The system allows on Google Assistant and “the smarter, faster, and easier way shoppers to make then build their shopping to perform everyday activities,” as purchases through the Google Assistant and list. That includes specific words such as “milk,” a study by PWC found.A According to this study, roughly 50 per cent Etsy developed an augmented reality (AR) and plans to make the feature available TAKEAWAY Google Home devices, and product or brand of consumers have already made tool to help users on Android too. share shopping lists and names. The shopping purchases using a voice assistant visualise art, photos and The pandemic has created an convert the shopping lists can then be shared and another 25 per cent have prints in their homes. Already operating environment where the benefits list into a shopping cart. with others, like family considered it. “The majority of items Etsy users can open the ahead of the game for of AR and VR for shoppers have Carrefour was the first members, who can also purchased are small and quick and retailer’s app on their some time, the virtual- become more relevant as shoppers retailer in the world to add any items they want. are things that someone could buy iPhone or iPad and use only retailer developed purchase more goods from home. integrate with the new Finally, Google Assistant without necessarily having to see it the new augmented the feature as part of Apps like Etsy’s are becoming voice-based grocery will convert the shopping physically,” PWC found, and staple reality tool to visualise an effort to provide particularly useful and follow a shopping experience on list into a shopping cart, grocery items fit this mould how wall art will fit into customers with “a greater movement of retailers the Google Assistant. proposing products that perfectly. Further partnerships their home or space. more visual shopping providing more AR and most closely reflect the like Google and Carrefour’s experience”. The tool VR tools as consumers “Shoppers today user’s preferences. This will only encourage this Whilst the beta launch of enables users to get a become more are saddled with will be based on whether trend further. the tool only includes sense of products’ comfortable using the disconnected experiences the shopper has already prints, photographs and size, look and feel in technologies. A recent through the shopping purchased the product, portraits, there are their space of choice, survey by Gartner and journey,” says Sébastien or because the Google already over five million an advantage for GetAppA had 47 per Missoffe, VP and Assistant has deduced items available in the art furniture brands, where cent of the respondents managing director of the preferences based on and collectables determining the size saying the pandemic has Google France. “We the general purchasing category. The company of a bed or table is changed their attitudes wanted to explore new habits of the customer also hopes to expand its particularly important towards AR technology. distribution models and at Carrefour, best price AR feature into other to ensure it fits in the e-commerce technologies available, and best sellers. A Prepare for the voice revolution | PWC, 2018 categories in the future dimensions of the room. A GetApp AR/VR Survey 2020, August 2020 36 | Aritco Report 2021 Aritco Report 2021 | 37
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