IQ4 Control Hardware

This case study explores how design consultancy Ratio worked on both design direction and industrial design with the UK manufacturing company Trend Control Systems to launch the IQ4 project of intelligent hardware.

IQ4 Control Hardware

Campaign details

Category name: Electronic & electrical equipmentAgency: Ratio Design AssociatesAdvertiser: Trend Control Systems

Executive summary

IQ4 Controller Hardware

Trend Control Systems are a pioneering UK manufacturing company producing intelligent hardware used to control and monitor the heating, ventilation and air conditioning in commercial buildings throughout the world.

As part of the Honeywell Group of companies and a major international supplier, Trend’s technologies, product reliability and customer service is widely respected. The company recognised that their products required a more coherent identity to suitably reflect their class leading technology.

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