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Creative plug designs for smart spaces

Shore power system has not been left behind in the race of designing smart and advanced electrical devices for modern homes. One such revolutionary design development is SmartPlug, a shore power system designed as an advanced and more secure alternative to the outdated and problematic twist-type design. Intuitive to use, the SmartPlug provides greater protection against corrosion and loose connections, the common causes of fires and shore power failure. Given below is a list of some creative plug designs for smart spaces. Have a glance.

Tron Plug

 

 

Designed by Seungwoo Kim, Tron plug is an innovative design with a loop to help you pull the plug out easily. Winner of an iF Concept Design award, the built-in finger hole of Tron plug not only makes it a convenient alternative to the regular plugs but the Euro styled two pronged plug also casts a soft blue glow at night, making it a safer plug to be used at night. With a simple yet significant twist in the design, the Tron plug with an electroluminescent strip on the finger hole is certainly going to convert our homes into smart spaces.

 

E Pick

 

In the quest to conserve energy, E Pick is an innovation to help you take a step forward. E Pick is a smart and hi-tech device that recognizes your presence in the room or home with the help of sensors and turns the light off automatically when there is no one present in the house. Designed by Hyun, E Pick can also be programmed to switch off the lights after a specific period of time, adding to your convenience as you don’t have to get up to switch off the lights before going off to sleep every night.

 

The Energenie

 

 

Energy conservation has now become a prominent feature in all electronic devices. Energenie is also an advanced device that enables a standby shutdown mode to save energy. Energenie can automatically switch off the power when the appliances are left in standby mode. Energenie is surely a smart and handy device for those who forget to turn off the power for appliances after using them.

 

ThinPlug

 

ThinPlug is an award winning patented UK folding plug that comes as a safer, slimmer and lighter alternative to the three pin UK plugs. Designed and developed after thorough research of four years, the unique folding plug is double-jointed earth pin. In the central column earth pin lies flat, horizontally between the neutral and live pins. ThinPlug is an intuitive plug concept for smart spaces.

 

Energy Lock

 

 

Energy Lock designed by industrial designer Young Suk Kim is a smart and innovative concept plug that prevents appliances from consuming energy when not in use. Energy Lock is a multi-tap plug in timer style that can be programmed to a specific time. As soon as the time is over, the plug shuts down all the appliances that are not in use, thus preserving the energy to be consumed by the appliances that are plugged but not in use. Energy Lock is certainly a smart device for smart spaces.

 

Folding for Power

 

 

Folding plug is a step forward in the green revolution as the innovative plug simply does away with the switch. The plug head itself acts as the switch for the folding plug. To switch on the power, all you have to do is snap it flush to the wall and lever it upward in the perpendicular direction at 90 degrees to turn off the power. Folding plug is an easy, intuitive and smart device that will surely dominate the years to come.

 

Ace Plug

Ace Plug may annoy you to the core with its irritating noises in order to save energy. Designed by industrial designers Liu Kai Ping, Lai You Cheng, and Liu Chen Guang the Ace Plug saves the energy consumed by the appliances kept connected to the power socket but not in use. The Ace Plug deals with the problem in an interesting way by making pesky noises when there are any idle appliances left connected to the socket.

Alert Me’s Smart Plug

 

 

Smart Plug by AlertMe is a hi-tech energy consumption monitoring device that helps to keep a tab on the energy consumption through a particular outlet at home. This easy to use and innovative device needs to be plugged in a particular outlet and the Smart Plug will send you data on the energy consumption with the real time statistics that will help you figure out the maximum energy consumption point in the house. You can access the data through internet, wireless broadband, GPRS or through your mobile phone. You can also preset the timing and power setting for a particular outlet.

 

Folding ‘Mu’ plug

 

 

Designed by South Korean designer Min-Kyu Choi, Folding Mu plug is an intelligent innovation to change the way of living. The safer and modern version of the traditional plugs in Britain, the Mu plug has won several awards for its simple yet striking concept. In the folding Mu plug the two bottom pins that are neutral and live can be twisted to 90 degrees to be in line with the earth. The twisting of pin allows the body of the Mu plug to be folded easily around them. The Mu plug is a concept that is surely going to get popular to become a part of our daily lives.

 

Sticord

 

 

The Sticord, an intuitive plug concept by the industrial designer Dongyeon Kim, is an easy way to save energy by identifying the appliance that is connected to the device but no longer needs the electricity. The smart plug saves you from the hassle of going through the bunch of cables to identify a particular cord. Sticord is an intelligent device with indicators that will reflect yellow light if the electricity is passing through but the device is not connected. The appliance in use is indicated by blue light. Sticord has two pins, one of the pins goes into the electric socket and the other pin acts as an easy push button that disconnects the power supply to the appliance and saves energy.

 

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