LG Showcases Portfolio of Advanced Home Appliances With “Life on the UP” at KBIS 2023
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By News Reporter
The inspiring LG Objet Collection has gained a global fan base since its worldwide launch in 2021, and for good reason. Through its understated designs and diverse materials and colors, this sophisticated collection of premium appliances and devices extends the opportunity to curate living spaces that reflect unique lifestyles and preferences like no other.
To raise the bar even higher for the ‘smart home’ experience, LG Vietnam recently launched the ‘LG Objet House’ at Flamingo Dai Lai Resort. Just 45 kilometers north of Hanoi, this all-new brand space and resort is fully equipped with state-of-the-art appliances from the LG Objet Collection.
Within the elegant four walls of the LG Objet House, the harmony effortlessly created by LG Objet products blurs the line between modern home appliances and high-end furniture. Together, these stylish, innovative appliances complete a seamless living space that honors the distinctive style of the homeowner.
During their stay, visitors can experience what seamless living really means thanks to LG PuriCare Aero Furniture, an air purifier that doubles as a side table; LG OLED Objet Collection Posé, a lifestyle TV which transforms into a digital frame that expresses every brushstroke of a painting; LG Objet InstaView refrigerator with an edge-to-edge glass that delivers a 23-percent-wider viewing angle; and LG Objet Styler, a premium clothing care system wrapped in a stylish, modern design.
Since every LG Objet innovation has been designed to blend effortlessly into a wide array of living spaces, they are able to complement each room of the LG Objet House. The life-enriching capabilities of this exclusive space is what leaves a lasting impression on visitors. And it goes without saying that every LG device featured in LG Objet House can be monitored and controlled on the LG ThinQ app, a level of connectivity that introduces a new “smart home” standard to the nation.
Aligning with the company’s global strategy to enhance customer experiences, LG Objet House aspires to encourage greater user interaction. “Through the moments of relaxation felt at LG Objet House, we hope to demonstrate the elevated lifestyle our LG Objet Collection makes possible,” said Song Ik-hwan, president of LG Vietnam, during its launch event.
Striking the perfect balance between aesthetics and functionality, the LG Objet Collection has received high praise from around the world. In Vietnam specifically, one of its products was named the “Most Groundbreaking Product Design” of 2023 at Vietnam Design Week (VMARK 2023). These works of art are not only innovative and visually stunning, they also evoke positive emotions by delivering the next-level user experiences that make sure life is always good.
People can now spend their vacation at LG Objet House, the ideal destination for “smart home” advocates thanks to the level of connectivity offered by the LG Objet Collection, a harmonious selection of practical innovations that boast aesthetic appeal with their sophisticated colors, subtle designs and use of sustainable materials.
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Advanced technologies are making life smarter and more convenient. At home, our living spaces have been upgraded through an ever-expanding ecosystem of connected appliances, devices and technologies. However, despite the time-saving benefits of these impressive innovations, the daily chores we love to avoid haven’t gone away just quite yet. Dedicated to realizing the Zero Labor Home, LG recently brought ‘the complete liberation from housework’ a step closer with the introduction of its groundbreaking household companion, the LG Smart Home AI Agent.
Although small in stature, LG’s Smart Home AI Agent has outsized capabilities. Not only does it act as a hub seamlessly connecting and controlling a wide range of home appliances and Internet of Things (IoT) devices,1 it also independently navigates its way around the house thanks to a clever, two-legged wheel design and a raft of cutting-edge tech. Built-in cameras, microphones and various sensors enable LG’s little AI Agent to collect a variety of data from the surrounding environment, which it then leverages to effectively monitor and manage the home.
Captured through multi-modal sensing, the collected data is processed and analyzed by the LG home appliance AI platform. This makes it possible for the Smart Home AI Agent to comprehend users’ intentions such as voices and facial expressions, understand its surroundings and recommend specific courses of action (such as activating or changing the settings of a particular connected appliance or device) to create greater ease, simplicity and comfort from the burden of housework.
At KBIS 2024 in Las Vegas this February, LG’s versatile Smart Home AI Agent highlighted the progress the company is making toward achieving the Zero Labor Home. Beyond its many abilities as a butler, assistant and companion, the diminutive robot is also quite the dancer. Before an enthralled audience, a group of perfectly-in-sync Smart Home AI Agents showed off their skills on the dancefloor with an endearing and entertaining choreographed routine.
Live demonstrations and short videos focusing on real-life usage scenarios at LG’s booth revealed how the AI Agent can help at home, from answering user’s questions, to greeting visitors at the door, to delivering useful notifications from connected appliances and other smart home devices.
In the booth’s Laundry section, the robot assumed the duties of a personal butler, offering up useful information, such as when the washing has finished, and helpful suggestions, like the best way to care for one’s laundry. The Kitchen section introduced the AI Agent as a convenient mobile hub and home assistant, seamlessly connecting with LG’s advanced kitchen appliances and presenting delicious recipes based on available ingredients. Inside the Living section, the Agent showed how it can be a valuable companion, notifying users when a visitor has arrived, inspecting each room as an indoor security officer, and even turning off the smart lightings when everyone has gone to bed.
Through LG’s collaboration with Microsoft, the Smart Home AI Agent integrates both the Azure AI Speech Service, which is based on voice recognition and voice synthesis technology, and the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft’s advanced Azure AI solutions help to ensure accurate voice recognition and give the robot its aptitude for comprehending nuanced commands, even in noisy environments like the Las Vegas Convention Center – the venue for KBIS 2024.
What’s more, the AI Agent’s Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative AI conversation service enables a more sophisticated level of robot-human interaction. Users can enjoy having natural, two-way conversations on various topics and conveniently control their home appliances with casually-spoken voice commands. Additionally, utilizing voice and facial recognition technology, LG’s intelligent, little home agent can distinguish between different users. To show its own ‘personality’ and ‘emotions,’ the robot changes the expressions on its face display, and can also convey its reaction to events and user interactions through movements generated by its articulated leg joints.
With ThinQ integration and the expansion of its open platform ecosystem, LG aims to accelerate both the adoption of the Smart Home AI Agent and the realization of its goal to liberate customers from the burden of household chores. Much like ThinQ UP appliances, the AI Agent will be able to receive continuous upgrades via the ThinQ app,2 providing users with an evolving, personalized smart living platform and a smart home solution.
A genuine game-changer, the LG Smart Home AI Agent is set to transform the way we interact with our living spaces, bringing us that much nearer to the realization of the Zero Labor Home.
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1 Feature availability may vary depending on region and usage environment.
2 Feature and service availability of ThinQ UP may vary depending on region.
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Hey everyone, I've been using my LG WebOS TV for some time now, and there's a small but impactful change I'd love to see. Currently, when the TV is turned on without an HDMI input, it defaults to displaying a wallpaper. It's not aesthetically pleasing, it's a bit of an inconvenience for users like me who primarily use the TV's smart features.My suggestion is to include an option that allows the TV to boot directly into the Home screen, displaying all the available apps and streaming options right away. This would streamline the user experience, making it faster and easier to access the services we use most.Would love to hear the community's thoughts on this. Cheers!
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Under the Theme of ‘Upgrade Your Lifestyle with LG’, the Company Showcases How
LG ThinQ and Its Technologies Offer Enhanced Customer Experience
SEOUL, Mar. 14, 2024 — LG Electronics (LG) is set to showcase its cutting-edge home appliances and related core technologies at the Appliance & Electronics World Expo (AWE) 2024, taking place in Shanghai, China, from March 14-17. In collaboration with Jingdong (JD), one of China’s biggest e-commerce companies, LG will present a range of premium home appliances that local consumers can purchase through JD’s online store, and host a live broadcast session on the opening day of the Expo.
Under the theme of ‘Upgrade Your Lifestyle with LG,’ the company is introducing the upgraded home lifestyle made possible by the company’s innovative appliances. The expansive exhibit includes the LG x JD Alliance zone, LG Innovation Tech zone, Upgrade Your Lifestyle zone, as well as the LG ThinQ Home, MoodUP Bridge, Air Solution Lounge and the Laundry Solution & Trendy Kitchen zone.
LG x JD Alliance zone highlights the groundbreaking appliances that will be available on JD, along with the advanced technologies that have helped LG become a major player in the global home appliance market. On day one of AWE, LG and JD will team up for live broadcasts showcasing home solutions, such as the latest WashTower, LG Styler, InstaView refrigerators, air conditioners, 77-inch and 83-inch OLED TVs.
In the Upgrade Your Lifestyle zone, LG will illustrate its harmonious ‘Fix & Max’ concept, with home appliances seamlessly integrated into realistic and stylishly appointed kitchen, study and living room environments. Visitors can also see for themselves how the company’s stunning home appliances realize the vision of making better life at home by curating a residential space with home appliances products, lifestyle screen products and IT products, including the kitchen, living room, home office, dressing room and balcony.
The LG ThinQ Home zone shows off the smart yet elegantly simple home appliance management experience enabled by the revolutionary LG ThinQ UP. Intuitive to use, the latest ThinQ UP platform makes it easier to control and manage appliances, whether it is turning appliances on and off or selecting one of the many specialized cycles available on the company’s intelligent appliances.
With its vibrant, dynamic colors, the MoodUP Bridge is sure to attract the attention of visitors to LG’s booth at AWE 2024. First introduced in 2023, LG refrigerators with MoodUP feature color-changeable LED door panels that can be managed using the LG ThinQ app.
Moving into the Seamless Air Solution Lounge, visitors can experience the full lineup of LG’s air care appliances including the PuriCare AeroTower, AeroFurniture and LG PuriCare Objet Collection HydroTower.
The LG Innovation Tech zone introducing Artificial Intelligence Direct Drive (AI DD) technology focuses on LG’s washers and dryers equipped with the latest Direct Drive Motor tech. Intelligently caring for users’ laundry, the AI DD senses the weight and fabric softness of each load and the types of fabrics being washed, then automatically determines the ideal cycle for enhanced cleansing performance and protection of your garments.* Meanwhile, visitors can see the history of LG Styler, as well as the improved clothing care solutions of new LG Styler.
The Laundry Solution & Trendy Kitchen zone is where visitors can find LG’s smart integrated clothing care solutions and high-performance kitchen appliances. Displayed in the Laundry Solution zone, visitors can see LG’s smart clothing care solution from washer, dryer, clothing care solution and ironing. The Trendy Kitchen zone features various lineup of InstaView refrigerators with understated, décor-friendly finishes, including Essence White and Matte Black.
Visitors can continue their tour of the company’s booth in the LG Objet Collection zone, which presents the unique and captivating aesthetics of the LG Objet Collection lineup.
To target young customers, the company set up unique zones where visitors could fully experience LG products in person. The IT Gaming Zone offered visitors the chance to play actual games on LG UltraGear OLED gaming monitors and LG gram Pro laptops. And, catching the eyes of younger visitors, the Camping & Relaxation Zone was an interactive outdoor life space featuring products, including the LG StanbyMe Go and LG CineBeam Q, which are being launched in China for the first time. Also, LG MAGNIT, a 163-inch Micro LED, not only captivates visitors with its high-quality image but also offers customizable large-scale screens to meet the needs of B2B customers.
“We are excited to introduce Chinese customers to an upgraded lifestyle with our innovative home appliances and technologies at AWE 2024,” said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. “LG will continue to deliver smart life solutions capable of accommodating the unique tastes, preferences and needs of each and every customer.”
Visitors to AWE 2024 can explore the full portfolio of lifestyle-enhancing LG home appliances at the company’s booth (#1C51, W1 Hall, Shanghai New International Expo Center).
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* Tested by Intertek on comparing the results of AI Wash cycle to Cotton cycle with 3kg of load in LG washer model F4Y7RYW0W. AI sensing is not activated when the Steam option is selected. Results may differ depending on load composition and environmental factors.
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At Europe’s Largest HVAC Exhibition, Company Introduces Highly Energy-Efficient
Residential and Commercial Solutions Designed to Deliver Optimal Indoor Comfort
SEOUL, Mar. 11, 2024 — LG Electronics (LG) is presenting its latest heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) solutions at Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) 2024 in Milan, Italy, from March 12-15. LG’s booth will showcase the company’s energy-efficient HVAC solutions for home and business, including the new DUALCOOL residential air conditioner indoor unit that provides a year-round pleasant indoor environment, residential heat pump solutions and commercial hydronic solutions employing low-Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerants.
New Residential Air Conditioners With Comfortable Air Flow
In the Home Gallery section of the booth’s Residential Zone, visitors can see for themselves what is so special about LG’s new DUALCOOL residential air conditioner with ‘interior fit’ design.
LG’s air conditioner is equipped with a comfort-enhancing Soft Air function, which provides customized and a soothing, indirect breeze, and an innovative DUAL Vane system, sending warm or cool air in multiple directions to deliver fast and effective temperature control for a favorable indoor environment. Engineered for the European market, the DUALCOOL leverages the state-of-the-art DUAL Inverter Heat Pump Compressor to deliver efficient heating and cooling. Another feature designed to reduce energy consumption is the kW Manager, which lets users set electricity-usage targets and monitor the air conditioner’s estimated electricity usage via the ThinQ app.
Also on display in the Residential Zone, the stylish ARTCOOL Gallery air conditioner can be personalized by selecting beautiful images or dynamic content (using the ThinQ app) to display on its bright LCD screen, which is bordered by a simple yet sophisticated frame.
Residential HVAC Solutions for Diverse Installation Environments and Lifestyles
The Air-to-Air Residential Solution area of LG’s booth offers up a wide selection of solutions from the Multi Split lineup, including the new wall-mounted DUALCOOL residential air conditioner and several indoor units that can be adapted for diverse installation environments and lifestyles. Additionally, visitors can check out the company’s residential Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) solution for residential applications such as Multi V S combined with Hydro Kit (Integrated Water Tank). This seamlessly integrated innovation provides stable heating, cooling and hot-water supply.
In the Air-to-Water Residential Solution section, the spotlight is on the LG Therma V R290 Monobloc air-to-water heat pump (AWHP) and an array of medium- and large-size heating solutions. Ideal for use in single-family residential dwellings, the R290 Monobloc matches strong performance with an equally strong design – one that incorporates an elegant and wavy grille finished in matte black. Among the various indoor and outdoor units on display in the Air-to-Water Residential Solution section are the Control Unit, Combi Unit and Hydro Unit – a diverse lineup that is compatible with R290 Monobloc, demonstrating LG’s unmatched ability to provide solutions for diverse installation environments. Moreover, the high-efficiency heat pump solutions are available in various capacities to meet the needs of both new and existing residential properties, including multi-family dwellings.
Home Energy Platform for a More Sustainable Solution
Inside the Air-to-Water Residential Solution section of the booth, visitors can learn how LG’s Home Energy Platform can create a more sustainable solution for home. An extensive energy solution that brings together the LG Therma V R290 Monobloc and the Energy Storage System (ESS), the Home Energy Platform streamlines HVAC and energy management, and can help shrink a household’s carbon footprint.1 Moreover, the heat pumps can significantly reduce carbon emissions when coupled with renewable energy sources such as solar.2 The ESS offers innovative ways to improve the efficiency of renewable energy usage in the home, and functions as a back-up power source if electricity supply is interrupted. Furthermore, the Home Energy Platform is compatible with LG ThinQ Energy,3 an extensive feature of LG ThinQ app, enabling users to monitor energy storage consumption and control their smart appliances and HVAC systems from their smartphones.
Advanced Hydronic Solutions Headlined by the Multi V i
In the Commercial Zone, the focus is on advanced hydronic solutions like the Multi V i, Inverter Scroll Chiller and select Hydro Kit lineups. The Multi V i leverages LG’s AI Engine to deliver AI Smart Care, which uses spatial and situational learning to help reduce daily energy consumption. Consistent thermal conditions are essential to accommodate optimal temperature preferences and ensure user safety and peak performance. The AI Indoor Space Care automatically adjusts the indoor environment in response to actual conditions, regulating connected indoor units to provide a convenient user experience and maintain a steady temperature. Another feature enabled by the AI Engine is AI Energy Management, which allows users to set energy consumption targets to lower the overall power usage of Multi V i.
The Commercial Zone also features LG’s innovative heat recovery unit, designed to enhance the safety of R32-refrigerant-equipped HVAC solutions. In addition, the zone highlights VRF solutions for light commercial spaces, alongside the R32-refrigerant Multi V and Inverter Scroll Chiller.
What’s more, visitors to LG’s booth can experience the airflow of DUALCOOL and 4-way Cassettes via the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and kinetic visualization technology. LG’s industry-leading HVAC component solutions, including its efficient and durable compressors, will also be on display during the exhibition.
“LG’s cutting-edge residential and commercial HVAC solutions on show at MCE 2024 provide a comfortable indoor environment, exceptional efficiency and smart, convenient control,” said James Lee, head of the Air Solution Business Unit at LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. “We will continue to deliver optimal indoor comfort in both residential and commercial environments through high-efficient solutions, employing precise airflow control technology and core compressor technology.”
Visitors to LG’s booth (#U28/Z16, Hall 5, Fiera Milano) at MCE 2024 can experience and explore the company’s full portfolio of innovative HVAC solutions.
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1 Therma V R290 cuts carbon emissions by up to 93 percent compared to a conventional boiler by using heat from the air as an energy source. Carbon emission rates are calculated for space heating only. Using EN14825 climate data and assuming 4,910 annual operating hours with 35 degrees Celsius temperature operation based on average temperatures in France. Calculations based on June 2023 energy prices and the carbon intensity of the power sector in the EU in 2022, and 56.1 t-CO2/TJ is considered for calculation of CO2 emission of gas boiler.
2 According to the German Heat Pump Association, the annual CO2 emissions of heating systems vary significantly based on the power source. When a heat pump is powered by renewable energy, the emissions are as low as 0.09 tons, the least amount recorded, while using heat pumps powered by conventional energy results in emissions of 1.35 tons. (Exemplary figures from Germany, 2020; 4 persons, 200m2 flat and sourced from German Heat Pump Association, waermepumpe-bwp.de/co2-neutral-heizen/)
3 ThinQ Energy is an extensive feature of the LG ThinQ app. The name of the app and feature availability may vary depending on model and region.
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