Smart Home Guru smanos Wins Red Dot Award 2015 with K1 SmartHome DIY Kit

Amsterdam — smanos, a trendsetting innovator and dynamic developer of wireless smart home and DIY security systems, is proud to announce that its K1 SmartHome DIY Kit has won over the 38-member jury of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015.

With this DIY Kit for home security and automation, smanos proved its design excellence in the most important competition for product design, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The international experts discussed and assessed each of the 4,928 entries from 56 countries, and only the designs that won over the jury with their quality and innovative power were given an award. The K1 from smanos succeeded in convincing the jury members, deservedly winning the much sought-after Red Dot seal of quality.

“We feel very honored and humbled to share this exciting news announcement with our partners, clients and investors worldwide,” said Ken Li, founder and CEO of Chuango Security Technology Corporation (Beijing NEEQ ticker 831464), mother company of smanos. “The K1 is smanos’ latest wireless smart home gateway, combining butler- and guard-like functions into a stack of aesthetically pleasing round discs. The discs come with aluminum frames and texturized plastic surfaces, particularly designed for everyday use.”

“smanos K1 connects to up to 50 wireless accessories with ease, and its intuitive operation on the smartphone is a breeze,” said Lily Chen, Senior Product Manager. “Such connected but wireless things include remote sockets/plugs, HD cameras, alarm detectors/sirens and environmental sensors. Comparable with high-caliber smartphones these days, smanos K1 is easily mount-and-play, and adding/removing features is just like adding/removing smartphone apps.”

With such intuitive operation and DIY usability, your smart and connected home has just become that much more adorable and affordable with smanos K1. The designers behind this award-winning kit include Ken Li, Sam Xu and Zero Wu.

Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award said: “For 60 years, the most-respected design experts have been convening every year in Essen to seek out the best designs. This year we had a record number of almost 5,000 entries — a huge amount of work for our jury members, who assessed each individual product, and a special value of the distinction due to the high standard. The laureates of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015 have demonstrated exceptionally high achievements and have thus been deservedly successful in the world’s largest design competition.”

“Designed in Amsterdam and marketed worldwide, smanos is our complete security, monitoring and automation system lineup for today’s homeowners,” said Hayden Hsu, VP Marketing. “What makes smanos a must-have brand to distributors and retailers is that we’re truly committed to researching, designing and delivering innovative, comprehensive and easy-to-use smart home solutions that will help them outperform their sales and profit targets.”