New solutions Review
rooms is when you walk in and some- body has set the display the display on to a different source. If you don’t ex- actly know what you’re doing with this, the display is smart enough to know to go back to a predetermined source, there’s always going to be something that’s on the screen that welcomes meeting attendees. So we’re the first display that gets that Windows badge, you can walk up and hit that and that brings up you know.”
What are we certified for?
“So, we’re certified for what’s called focus rooms. And a Certified Room Size. If you have been onto the Mic-
components. So we really have two sce- narios: you have your Microsoft Teams room – that is typically intended to be a walk in kind of, you know, video conferencing or, or very sophisticated phone booth. Where this broke down was when somebody wanted to bring their laptop. IT managers really hated that because people would go out of their way to get to take the room out of the Microsoft Teams Room and while bringing their own meetings scenar- io. Now we have the ability to bounce back and forward between those op- tions with ‘smart switching’. So some- body brings your laptop in, they can connect automatically The audio and video controls and everything else on your laptop, are reset as soon as the laptop is disconnected.”
“So set-up is up pretty simple. Be- cause we’ve got the microphone, the camera, the interactivity, speak- ers and the controls for everything built into the display, two cables are enough to set-up and close down the solution.”
Aquarius
rosoft Teams hardware site, they have everything broken down by room sizes. They put everybody into a requirement that says what’s, what’s the best expe- rience for your particular product, the W CD was defined as a focus room. And so, we now get whitelisted. So when you’re in a room, and you start a call, they disable all of the cloud processing, so we get to use all of our local processing. We know exactly the microphones. We’re using the DSP that we’re using, the speakers and ev- erything.” “We now have the ability to have the best performance in audio and video because it’s all done locally on the display itself. We are listed on that Mi- crosoft marketplace, so an IT manag- er or facilities manager, when they’re selecting components for a room can go in and now select from all certified
“As I walked into the room, the pres- ence sensor detects that I’m there wakes up the display. It does the configuration and switches every- thing over for that room whether it’s a Microsoft Teams Room or Bring Your Own Device. The temperature sensors are recording whether the room was too hot too cold, or just right. The am- bient light sensor is reading, whether the room too bright. too dim or what- ever and all that information is being sent out to the Aquarius dashboard. Over time you can start to get histor- ical data that says, okay, is this room running too warm? Is it too cold? Is it too bright? And then because you’re tied into Office 365, and you have a presence sensor in there, you can de- termine if the room is being utilised when it says it should be utilised. So, if I book a meeting at 1030, and then I don’t show up and everybody else was remote, that room just sits it sits there occupied, even though it’s really not. These are called ‘Zombie rooms’.” “Facilities managers can set up a warning alert: “I’m going to give you
five minutes, three minutes. If I don’t detect any emotion in that room, I know that that rooms not being used. And I’m going to release that room.” All of a sudden the utilisation rate of the new room starts to go up. And of course, the more utilisation you have, the lower the costs are. That’s real- ly the key to all of this is - improved meeting performance. A second factor is “how quickly can we get meetings up and running?” I’d love to run 15 minute meetings, but a lot of times it took it took that long just to get the meeting going. If I can get a meeting going in 15 seconds. I can be produc- tive.”
“By putting sensors into the display, it allows people to get their first look at how sensor information can start to be utilised. To make intelligent choices, more and more sensors are going to be deployed in rooms. And those sensors are going to have to be connected into something. And I think the display is, is really setting itself up to be that hub for all of that sensor information. It’s going to people like us don’t want in- formation just sort of going out over the network without it being encrypt- ed somehow. With workspace intelli- gence, and those dashboards, we have a set that are already configured. Plus, you’re able to go in and configure your own depending on how you see your usage. And within the room, within the floor, the building or the campus, we just build and build and build un- til you get enough data to allow you to say, these meeting rooms are being used efficiently, these meeting rooms aren’t, so maybe we need to swap those out.”
“Doing all of this is simple. You have your W CD, which is really two cables, an ethernet cable, and a power ca- ble. That’s all it takes. So, this thing can be mobile, or it can be fixed in a room, you deploy that. Next thing you do is you create an account, through the workspace intelligence, tie that into your Office 365. Now everything’s being compiled together. And then, within a day, you’re starting to get your reports. You’re starting to gather infor- mation and you’re getting very worth- while data that otherwise was just go- ing unreported.”
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