No-Touch Concepts for Post-pandemic Needs

S-pro is the new discourse of our design studio in aviation in order to embody the industry needs in the near future. Our seats are equipped with flawless details and the latest technologies to maximize comfort and convenience of passengers.

Let us introduce the latest vision project of Formeta Design.

As we know, the aviation industry is one of the most damaged sectors by the pandemic. In addition to the direct economic effects of the restrictions, there are also indirect sociological effects on our society such as personal space needs and more hygienic and easy-to-clean equipment.

What if we control all components of our plane seat via smart device during flights?

What if we don’t need to touch any other surface than our smart device on the seat, except sitting?

S-Pro, the first design of our no-touch product ranges, emerged as a natural consequence of these questions.

We invite you to experience this change with us.

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Thanks to Turkish Airlines family for their support at the ideation and development stages.

S-Pro Plane Seat

From the beginning of the flight until the end, the no-touch seat was designed with a holistic approach to provide full control over the smart device. All components can be controlled from a single channel without touching such as turning on the lights, opening the trays or reclining seats. S-Pro also improves flight attendants’ operations and enhances passengers’ experiences and during their flights. Regarding different personas and their varying needs, concepts like “hygiene, privacy and customizability” came to the fore in the design process of S-Pro.

Modern Lines

Seat fabrics selected as a nano fabric regarding hygiene requirements and makes cleaning more easy. For referring to the near future and generative design, fabrics were designed with the lines which are creating organic and fluid forms and ruining the symmetry.

Light and Soft Appearance

To create a more comfortable and light appearance in the interior atmosphere, all components are designed with the white composite materials regarding long and exhausting flights. Also, to fulfill the aviation requirements, components are examined for reaching the optimum weight.

Smart Adjustable Head

An illuminated and adjustable headrest of S-Pro was designed with the latest technologies to create a comfortable ambience for passengers. With its dynamic structure it allows customers to arrange the position of the headrest as they want. Also, it is moving according to the passengers’ positions. Thanks to its mobility, lighting and sound system passengers enjoy their flights. Two new innovative features were added as Direct Sound Technology and Noise Cancellation Technology

Noise Cancellation

To create a more personalized flight experience, S-Pro was designed with high-tech equipment like “noise cancellation systems”. The Headpiece Equipment restrains the background noises by sending adverse sound waves, creating a calm flight atmosphere and reducing flight anxiety.

Direct Sound Technologies

S-Pro’s Direct Sound Technology was developed by rethinking sound technologies by considering flight wastes problems. For reducing flight wastes and providing more sustainable flight experience, the need for single-use earphones was eliminated. With its smart sound technology, S-Pro, provides an impeccable listening experience to the passengers and they consume their audio content without the need for headphones with the direct sound technology.

Reading Lights

Differing among existing solutions, S-Pro has two sided lights on the headrest to provide more homogenous light environment for better reading experience.

Square Screen Unit

Screen units were designed as a square format to maximize the display screen and allow control of other features while watching videos in 16:9 format. Regarding all passengers’ needs, we placed enarthrosis to the screen unit so the location of the screen remains to stand in front of the passenger even if the passenger front reclines their seat.

Two Stages Tray Table

Just like any other moving part, the tray table can be controlled via mobile phone or any smart device during flight. Ther tray tables of S-pro provide a bigger usage area than common ones by sliding outward in two-stage. This special mechanism provides more storage back to the tray and widens the trays’ sizes.

Charge & Docking Deck

Because of the smart devices of a passenger being converted into a remote controller during flight, S-Pro includes charge & docking deck to ensure continuity of passenger experiences

Reclining Seats

Maximize the flight comfort for the passengers, seat angles were designed as 100 degrees and can be reclined 8 degrees more. In addition to this the screen units and separators are not affected by this reclining movement and remain in their stable positions with extra hinge system not to disturb the rear passenger.

Unibody Sitting Area

The soft sitting area of S-Pro are designed as a unibody which can be reduced contamination by eliminating indentations and personal space for passengers. Thus, a more easily cleaned and hygienic seat suitable for the aircraft has been obtained.

Smart Foldable Footrest

Smart foldable footrests, designed for S-Pro, allow passengers to keep their feet comfortably regardless of the duration of the flight. It’s fully entegrated with no-touch mobile app to turn it on and off

Mainspring Seat Belts

With the mainspring system by differing common seat belts, S-Pro’s are stored inside and contamiend surfaces reducing as possible as while they do not take up the space on the seats.

Smart Foldable Armrest

The armrests system of the S-Pro is one of the features that can be controllable with the mobile phones. When passengers sit their seats, armrests are automatically moving down and are ready for usage. If the passenger wants to close it, they can do it with one command on their phones.

Flexible Storage Unit

For bigger belongings, flexible storage area are made by rubber coated fabric for taking the shape of the belonging and providing larger storage space. Also, the surfaces of the fabric used minimal level for reducing the touchable surfaces and maximizing the hygiene of the space.

Hanger Piece

Continuing the design line of the back of seats, hangers are added for passengers’ belongings. So they can hang their coats, umbrellas, hand bags and enjoy their flights by sitting comfortably.

Contact Reducing Seperator

Regarding the importance and the need for personal space due to pandemic conditions, we made a design for ensuring more psychological and physical comfort with separators that are located between the seats and reducing contact with others. They are not affected by the position of the seats and keep their locations in between two passengers even if the seats reclined. To maximize the hygiene on the surface of separators, bold plexiglass material is used because of its easily cleanable feature.

Mobile App as Remote Control

The mobile application designed for S-Pro, can be used as a remote control. So, passengers are provided to have a pleasant time during their flight and all their needs on the plane are met. Thanks to the application, passengers can not only adjust the moving parts in their seats, but also have personalized flight experiences with the application to communicate with flight attendants, pacing order from the flight menu, making a choice and enjoy the visual contents on the wide screen and audio content, IFE, thanks to the innovative sound system. Also, it allows passengers to recline their seats, open their footrests, adjust the head restraints according to their own height and open their trays.