Crestron is adding video support from partners Jabra and Huddly to the Crestron Flex platform to facilitate equitable meetings both in-office or at-home.
Room systems with intelligent audio and video features, paired with the software such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom Rooms platforms, ensure all meeting participants can easily contribute and productively collaborate. The Crestron Flex platform ties it all together, providing purpose-built devices for different spaces and applications, while delivering a consistent user experience throughout the organisation.
By standardising on Crestron Flex, enterprises can deliver a meeting experience across the office, from the largest board room to rotating hot desks and huddle spaces, as well as scalability and support via Crestron XiO Cloud remote management software.
The addition of video integration to the Crestron Flex platform offers several features that enhance the video conferencing experience, including:
- People counting and face framing – Intelligent cameras recognize each participant in the room and provide a single image of each participant as well as a full room view to ensure each participant, both locally and remote, have an equal seat at the table.
- Full room view – Integrated real-time video stitching gives a full 180° view of the room, fully optimising small spaces for better video conferencing, ensuring every person can be seen clearly, all while maintaining proper social distancing protocols.
- Whiteboard Sharing – Whiteboards are a key collaboration tool, however with hybrid meetings, remote participants are often left in the dark and cannot view the content on the whiteboard in the room. Whiteboard Sharing enables participants to view and share content from up to three whiteboards digitally, extending the functionality and usability of whiteboard collaboration to outside the room.
- Analytics – Capture data and analytics of room utilization, occupancy, and people counting to provide better insight into how your spaces are being used which enables more efficient real estate planning and budgeting.