AV News Awards AV News Awards 2020: the shortlist


The AV News Awards 2020 will be presented at a presentation break- fast at ISE 2020 on the first morning of the show, Tuesday 11th Feb- ruary 2020. Planned to ensure that Award winners can exhibit their trophies on their ISE booths, the invitation-only presentation breakfast will be streamed live from the venue at the Amsterdam RAI by Zoom Video Communications. Links to the live stream will be posted to our web site avnews.co.uk on the 11th January 2020. The following is a shortlist of Award nominations in the Technology, Project, and Organisation Awards categories. As is our usual practice, winners of Awards in the Individual and Personal categories are not announced until the Presentation.


Category: Collaboration Innovation of the Year Nomination: Launcher by Display Note


DisplayNote was founded in 2012 to simplify how people pres- ent, share and collaborate with content in meeting rooms, huddles spaces, classrooms, lecture theatres and training rooms. Organisa- tions utilise DisplayNote products to share ideas, make decisions and improve how information flows. DisplayNote’s latest solution, Launcher, enables users to utilise their smartphone to create a secure, more personalised touch- screen meeting experience. Using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology and an Office 365 account, you can get instant access to your content, calendars and calls on the large interactive touch screen.


Applications can be organised to make it easier for teams to find and launch the apps they need for their meetings. Launcher en- sures that the setup is tailored and personalised to the needs of individuals.


1. Online meetings can be joined with one touch – to simplify and streamline the launch process of conference calls. With Microsoft Exchange integration, Launcher locates your Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business meetings.


2. Users can further benefit from the flexibility of the Launcher system through instant screen sharing between a phone and a dis- play. This allows end users to begin a video call on a smartphone and to then further engage via the main display on the conference or meeting room when they enter this space.


3. Launcher is pre-loaded with DisplayNote applications for wire- less presentations of different formats – to suit all online meetings. The ready-to-use applications include the wireless presentation software (Montage), a one-to-many screen solution (Broadcast) and an intuitive collaborative whiteboarding tool (Workspace). 4. Real-time view of meetings scheduled in the shared calendar. This enables more efficient meetings with participants knowing their calendar and upcoming commitments in real time. 5. Launcher places end users in complete control over meeting room displays. This feature ensures a smarter, more personalised user interface for end users as applications that are used consis- tently can be easily found on the home screen.


Category: Collaboration Innovation of the Year


Nomination: Solstice Pod video conferencing integration by Mersive


Mersive has launched a video conferencing integration for Sol- stice Pod seamlessly connecting in-room and remote participants. With the new update, meeting goers can leverage Solstice’s rich in-room content sharing, control, and mark-up capabilities while also supporting remote users through integration with the con- ferencing service of choice. Solstice already enhances meeting productivity by allowing any number of users to easily share and control content from laptops and mobile devices to an in-room dis- play. It is used by more than 8,000 organizations and education institutions around the world, including many on the Fortune 100. • Multiple in-room users can easily share and control content at the same time using the familiar Solstice app, with content collab- oration being automatically piped to the conference participants. In-room users are not limited to sharing one piece of content at a time, which is commonplace with video conferencing apps. • The architecture of our video conferencing integration solution means only one in-room user is streaming out to the cloud and remote participants, versus everyone joining a video conference session and steaming individually to and from the cloud. • By combining Solstice with your room-based video conferencing system (connected via HDMI), users only need to open a single app per meeting. Remote participants just need to open their vid- eo conferencing app, while in-room users can share content into the session with Solstice as usual.


Category: Collaboration Innovation of the Year


Nomination: Vivitek’s eco-system of solutions If it’s true that no man’s an island, then it is also true that no product - in isolation - is a ‘solution’. Vivitek’s view is that it’s more beneficial to consider every aspect of an AV challenge, hence its harmonious range of complementary solutions that comprehen-


P24 AV News January 2020 Enjoy the AV News Awards Presentation by Video


Courtesy of sponsor Zoom Video Communications, even if you can- not get a ticket to attend the Presentation, you can enjoy the event by video. Log into the live video stream from the AV News web site at www.avnews.co.uk. on or after 7.30 am (UK time) on the 11th February 2020. The stream will also be available on www.avnews. co.uk after the event.


sively address the complex issues or challenges faced by custom- ers.


Under-pinned by industry-admired reliability and generous war- ranties, Vivitek’s eco-system comprises award-winning display de- vices combined with wireless collaboration solutions that bring AV technology and the BYOD principle together. They deliver tangible productivity results in environments ranging from the classroom to the boardroom, and everything in-between. • All Vivitek’s NovoConnect solutions enable participants to seam- lessly share content from any device onto the central meeting screen wirelessly. Connection is easy via the NovoConnect app on laptops or mobile devices, while guests can join using the optional LauncherPlus USB devices. All NovoConnect devices, from stand- alone to embedded solutions can be remotely managed over the network. • Vivitek’s NovoTouch interactive flat panels present customers with a new way to engage and interact with big data visualisation.


straightforward.


• Connect to external platforms: Users can connect to their SIP solution to external platforms from Five9 and Twilio too. This way, it’s easier to manage call routing options through some of the world’s favourite cloud calling services • BYOC: Zoom is committed to innovating as quickly as possible for its customers to deliver functionality that suits the entire Zoom experience. The Bring Your Own Carrier, or BYOC option ensures that users can access all the advantages of Zoom Phone through their existing PSTN trunks


• Complete Freedom: Thanks to its integrations and the availabili- ty of BYOC, Zoom makes Zoom Phone as flexible as possible for to- day’s users. The solution means that Zoom Phone can be available in any country – even when localised services aren’t yet available • Centralised Communication Management: Zoom Phone fits seamlessly into any user’s digital transformation strategy. The sys- tem allows companies and business leaders to manage and pro- vision users freely, monitor business interactions, and more in a simple admin portal


Category: Collaboration Innovation of the Year Nomination: CTouch BRIX Concept


As a designer and manufacturer of touchscreen solutions for edu- cation and corporate businesses, we often receive questions about sustainability in relation to our products. Most of those questions are related to the recycling of product packings and the usage of raw materials. Although these topics are important in the indus- try’s mission to limit excessive usage of (scarce) resources, we believe sustainability is much more than recycling. The environ- mental footprint and circularity of the consumer electronics that make our lives so much better should become a key topic on the agenda of AV industry pioneers.


Simple and easy to connect, the interactive flat panels (in a range for Education and Business) are pre-configured with Vivitek’s No- voConnect Solutions to bring wireless, cable-free and hassle-free presenting to improve meeting efficiency and productivity by driv- ing increased collaboration. Supporting the BYOD concept, No- voTouch offers users complete wireless mirroring to a variety of devices. • Vivitek’s NovoDisplay is an all-in-one flat screen solution that integrates three key functions - 4K-UHD display, wireless collab- oration capabilities and digital signage – to create one produc- tivity-boosting solution. The ability to seamlessly switch between meetings and digital signage opens a wide opportunity to maxi- mize the investment and improve communication flow during and after meetings.


• The NovoProjector is an innovative all-in-one solution for organ- isations with meeting rooms that require a larger image than most flat panel displays can offer. NovoProjector allows them to benefit from its extensive wireless collaboration features. • NovoDS is Vivitek’s Digital Signage Solution and is embedded in all ‘integrated’ solutions as an additional feature. It offers an affordable, network-based digital signage solution which is ideal for creating dynamic visual displays for corporate or public spaces. Digital signage content can incorporate text, photos, audio, video, and web content in fully customisable configurations for a variety of environments.


Category: Collaboration Innovation of the Year Nomination: Zoom Phone


Zoom Phone has been designed to be as accessible as the rest of the Zoom experience. There’s no need to download any complex software to use it. Zoom Phone makes transitioning from video to voice calls easy. Zoom Phone is available to buy as an add-on to an existing Zoom service. Pricing starts at £10 per month per user for a single app with access to voice, video, messaging, voicemail, meetings, conferencing, representing excellent value for money. PSTN calls can be made over cell data, or Wi-Fi connections. Ad- ditionally, Zoom is available through native MacOS, iOS, Windows, and Android apps.


• Ease of use for everyone: When you users click on their Zoom cli- ent, their Phone function will simply appear alongside their Meet- ing and Chat options. Just click on the phone, enter a person’s name or phone number, and users are ready to go. It’s simple and


impact of touchscreens. It also triggers dialogs with our partners about reusage of these electronics, creating environmental and commercial benefits.


The second initiative is above mentioned re-usage mission brought into practice: CTOUCH ‘BRIX’. This is a modular business model, using the touchscreen as a basic platform, which is upgradeable via modules. In a nutshell, this means companies will be able to upgrade or migrate to different collaboration solutions within their meeting room or huddle space. This can be done without having to completely replace their CTOUCH touchscreen. And that saves time, money and above all, production of completely new interac- tive displays that have a high CO2 impact. •Modular. Sustainable. Futureproof. •We keep in mind that we’re all different. We work in different ways, we have different needs. And the way we work today can be completely different from the way we’ll work tomorrow. Wouldn’t it be great if the tools that you are working with today, can still be


During the spring and summer of 2019, CTOUCH Europe B.V. and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have conducted a research on the CO2 impact of the manufacturing and usage of in- teractive flat panel displays (IFPD). The first initiative is CTOUCH’ Circularity Passport. With the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), CTOUCH conducted research on the CO2 impact of man- ufacturing and using touchscreens. A material passport (‘The cir- cularity passport’) enables us to create awareness about the CO2


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