Press Release
Halo Smart Helmet by Ather Design Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Safety Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment Design
Ather Design acknowledged for safety clothing and personal protective equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Halo Smart Helmet by Ather Design, designed for Ather Energy, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Safety Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Halo Smart Helmet
Halo is a full-face helmet designed for electric scooter riders. The helmet shell is ISI and DOT rated and weighs about 1460 grams. Built-in speakers support music, call control and helmet-to-helmet communication between rider and passenger. The speakers are positioned and tuned so that road sounds remain audible. All electronics are placed outside the shell, away from the head, in an IP65 rated impact-grade housing. Automatic wear detection switches the helmet on when it is worn. A magnetic wireless charger latches to the rear housing.
About Ather Design
Ather Energy, based in Bengaluru, India, is revolutionizing urban mobility by designing and manufacturing high-performance electric scooters. Founded in 2013, they aim to make EVs the preferred transport mode for a sustainable future. What's interesting is their holistic approach, building not just scooters but also a fast-charging network (Ather Grid) and utilizing over-the-air software updates for continuous improvement. Ather's sleek, tech-forward scooters and commitment to a complete ecosystem distinguish them in the rapidly growing Indian EV market.
Award Record
With this recognition, Ather Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Safety Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment Design Award
The A' Protective Equipment Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good protective equipment by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to protective equipment designers, safety clothing manufacturers, personal protective equipment brands and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include helmets, gloves, goggles, respirators, earplugs and safety boots. Awarded protective equipment designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/protective-equipment
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/162630
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162630
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162630
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/356104
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://shop.atherenergy.com/products/halo
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Halo Smart Helmet
- Function
- Smart Helmet
- Category
- Safety Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Fashion
- Colors
- Lavender, Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ather Energy
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ather Design
- Country
- India
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162630
Credits
- Team
- Deepanjan Sinha(Project Lead), Mithilesh Katkar(Form Design), Sounak Purkayastha(Digital Sculptor), Chetan Rajesh(Industrial Designer) and Darshan Patel(Industrial Designer)
- Image Credits
- Damn Good Films
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Ather Halo: A helmet you'd want to wear. Ather Halo is designed to uplift your every-day 2-wheeler ride experience. It does through high-quality audio experiences such as music, call control, and helmet-to-helmet communication for easy conversations between a rider and a pillion
- Inspiration
- Its inspiration came accessories like the apple pencil and the airpods. While the idea of a bluetooth enabled helmet isnt entirely new, halo was built to add way more convenience and effortlessness when paired with a vehicle like the Rizta. I -Auto Wear Detection lets it detect when it is being worn and power on/off automatically, allowing a rider seamless access to its audio experiences. -Wireless charging allows it to provide effortless charging by latching our wireless charger to the helmet
- Realization and Technology
- Ather Halo was built to be a helmet first. It is an isi and dot -rated helmet shell. To ensure safety, all its vital electronics have been housed outside of the helmet shell and away from the user's head in its own IP-rated impact-grade housing. The housing contains all the intelligence like the motherboard, a battery and a wireless coil with magnets to allow our wireless chargers to effortlessly latch on to the helmet. AutoWearDetect: This is achieved through a contact-less proximity sensor inside the helmet and an Inertial Measuring Unit Calibrated Sound: Through careful positioning and tuning of the speakers, Halo has been designed for audio without losing road awareness.
- Operation and Interaction
- Ather Halo is a full-face electric scooter helmet with built-in Bluetooth speakers (with sound by Harman Kardon). Its sound is designed so that, even at full volume, you can hear the surrounding sounds of the road clearly, making it completely safe to ride with. It’s built with Auto WearDetect automatically switches on the moment you wear it and connects to your smartphone's Bluetooth. And when your ride is done, and you store the Ather Halo in the boot of your Ather Rizta, it charges there, wirelessly.
- Specifications
- Shell Size: 350mm x 250mm x 260mm Shell Weight: 1460g approx Safety Rating: ISI and DOT Electronic Specs IP65 Rated housing Battery Life: 12 hours Battery Capacity: 1000mah
- Keywords
- AtherHalo, Halo, Halosmarthelmet, AtherHelmet, Halosmarthelmet, Halosmart
