Essential Install | Offi ce & Boardroom Systems
Remote access to
meetings is now
commonplace
Working Out
Conference calls, connecting colleagues and working
from home, what’s on offer to make these tasks easier?
EI investigates, discovering what’s new in offi ce set ups.
When it comes to presentations, the era of a barrage
of slides shown in a darkened room is at an end, says
Wolfgang Haunschild, product marketing manager for
NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH. Collaboration
tools and other technology advances make presentations
today more interactive, effi cient and easier to absorb.
The meeting room is one of the most important
locations within a company. It’s the place where a lot of
ideas are born, decisions are made, negotiations are
settled and in general the future course of the company
is set. However, the role the meeting room plays has
changed dramatically in recent years. Bringing together
a large group of people to hold a meeting is increasingly
seen as a big cost factor and more collaborative and
interactive working scenarios are becoming the standard,
replacing the one-directional PowerPoint slideshows.
Advances in display technologies have resulted in fi xed
displays replacing the classic projector in many meeting
rooms. Even LED walls are seen as a good alternative.
Collaboration
tools are making
presentations more
interactive
Huddle Rooms
A big current trend is huddle rooms; small conference
spaces that are equipped with audio, video and display
system technology, says Wolfgang. Many companies
are now building multiples of them instead of one giant
meeting room and are often used for spontaneous
meetings or gatherings that are focused on creative
collaboration rather than presentations and reports. With
this type of use, meeting rooms are becoming more
display-centric, as this is the focal point where interaction
and work takes place.
Users of the Huddle Room need to create and share
ideas in a space which facilitates their needs easily
and is intuitive to set up and operate. Typically, huddle
rooms are designed for meetings of up to 5 people,
often a smaller meeting room where a display size of
65in is ideal. NEC Display Solutions is soon to launch its
Infi nityBoard solution, a custom fi t collaborative meeting
room experience which perfectly fi ts the needs of today’s
huddle rooms.
Meeting rooms are evolving into multi-usage spaces
and NEC’s modular Infi nityBoard approach allows a
custom fi t solution according the company’s needs.
Customers can build the solution from three bundles
starting with the ultra-high resolution 65in or 84in display
and stylus pen; expand with the whiteboard app, slot-in
PC and wireless presenting functionality; then add video
conferencing capability with a camera and speakers.
NEC’s MultiPresenter stick provides offers a seamless
collaborative environment for instant access to shared
content and wireless presentation, as well as retaining
wired options.
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