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Conference Room Technology Must-Haves In the Digital Age

Hardware to Use for Your Zoom Conference Room

Finding the proper hardware for your conference room or workstation can be the difference between hours of wasted time and consistently hosting productive and collaborative meetings. And with remote work becoming more of the norm today, it’s more essential than ever to have remote conference capabilities that provide high-quality sound, video, and interactive capabilities. 

To ensure that your conference room is up to the challenge, here are a few devices that American Sound recommends installing because their design is a natural pairing to Zoom Rooms, Zoom Phone, and Zoom Meetings. 

Neat Bar

The Neat Bar is a compact meeting device. It provides high-quality audio and video and comes with a built-in intelligent room sensor technology known as Neat Sense, which monitors the meeting space environment’s air quality, humidity, CO2, and the number of people in the room.

Logitech Rally Bar Appliance

This video bar is excellent for a mid-size conference room. Ideal for video collaboration, you can plug and play Rally Bar with any PC or Mac or run the Zoom Rooms on the device itself without a computer. It also features calendar integration, touch-to-join, instant content sharing, and more.

Neat Board

This collaboration device features a 65” 4K multi-touch screen, wide-angle camera, and powerful audio capabilities. Set up is easy, and you can choose from a floor stand, wall, or table mount to fit your conference room. It also offers Neat Sense technology so you can monitor your meeting space.

Yealink MeetingBar A30

Practical and straightforward, the Yealink MeetingBar A30 is an all-in-one video collaboration bar, ideal for a medium-sized conference room. It’s based on Android 9.0 OS and features a dual-camera system, enhanced smart video and HD audio, and more. 

If you’re using the A30 meeting bar, no PC or Mac is required, and you’ll enjoy a convenient and fast setup because it combines a computing unit, camera, speaker, microphones, Wi-FI, and Bluetooth.

Want more details on conference room hardware installation?

Our hardware recommendations are all great additions to any conference room, but if you’d like to know which meeting room systems we install, please call (859) 261-9024 or contact us online.

How American Sound Optimizes Your Conference Rooms

Having the right conference room equipment and setup makes it easier to connect, collaborate, and produce great things! If your conference room is lacking, there are many ways you can optimize your setup for the best results. Here are some of the ways American Sound can take your conference rooms to the next level.

More AV equipment

Your computer’s microphone and a set of speakers simply aren’t going to cut it in a modern setup. With more employees working these days remotely, conference rooms demand much more, and poor sound quality can significantly disrupt your company’s ability to be productive. 

We can help you improve by outfitting your meeting space with microphones specifically designed for video conferencing, so everyone can easily hear one another without having to pass a mic around the room.

We can install several microphone pickups for larger conference rooms to fit the space better and ensure the best sound quality possible. Ceiling and wall-mounted microphones are even an option. 

These will significantly improve your meetings, so you’ll spend less time trying to decipher what team members are saying and more time making progress on projects and tasks.

Room scheduling with smart speaker integration

For large organizations, room scheduling gives employees the ability to book conference rooms for meetings or workspace. With high-quality room scheduling technology, individuals can quickly locate the space that best serves their needs and reserve it right away.

At American Sound, we can help you implement this technology and combine it with smart speakers and a virtual assistant so you can verbally book your meeting in the fitting conference room without having to type a thing. (Talk about convenience!) A room scheduler can also connect with remote workers for easy collaboration.

Interactive video conferences

Remote video collaboration can do wonders to build your team and boost productivity. With an interactive display, you can host highly engaging and inclusive meetings with employees who work remotely and on-site. 

Whether you favor Zoom, Go To Meeting, Slack, or some other conference call software, we can install an interactive video display that will enable you to include things like polls, quizzes, and virtual whiteboard annotations in meetings and presentations.

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Find Out How We Can Optimize Your Conference Rooms Today

Having the right reliable equipment can genuinely transform any conference room into a well-used space that produces fruitful meetings and enhances collaborative efforts. If you’re ready to update your conference room with new hardware installation, call us at (859) 261-9024 or contact us online to learn more about our services.

Conference Room Technology Design Trends to Watch

With many companies fully embracing remote work opportunities, conference room technology design trends are quickly changing. To stay competitive, look at some of the top trends to watch for.

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1. LED Video Walls

LED video walls are more common now, and thus, they’re also more affordable. They offer better quality visuals than projectors or monitors do, with bright and vivid colors and high-quality, clear, and sharp images. LED video walls can also save you money down the line because they are extremely energy-efficient. (For reference, they use about half as much energy as projectors.) They also boast lower operational and maintenance costs when compared to monitors and projectors.

2. Interactive Whiteboards

Interactive whiteboards give you the ability to create more dynamic presentations and keep people engaged. This conference room technology makes meetings run more smoothly by enhancing video conferencing with premium features that allow you to do several things.

Interactive whiteboards can:

  • Record video conferences.
  • Spotlight a particular area on the whiteboard (drive attention there instead of elsewhere).
  • Zoom in and magnify images.
  • Screen shade (hide particular information and reveal it when needed).
  • Take screenshots (to use later as handouts).
  • Run files, programs, and apps that are designed for computers.
  • Surf the internet.
  • Play videos.

3. Custom-Branded Conference Rooms

With video conferencing becoming the new norm for many businesses, more organizations are jazzing up their conference rooms to spark creativity and inspire employees. Adding custom-branded signage, painting an accent wall with branded images and design, is a great way to transform a boring conference room, enhance a team’s company culture, and make online conferences more interesting and engaging. However, you’ll want to be careful that you don’t go overboard. Too much signage or paint might also be distracting, so balance is key.

4. Full Automation

When your conference room technology fails you and refuses to work well together, company leaders and employees get equally frustrated and annoyed. Not to mention how it hampers your productivity. Instead, many organizations are beginning to install an intuitive automation system in their conference room. This type of automated system ensures that lighting and audio/visual gear all work efficiently and cohesively.

Need Conference Room Technology Installation From the Pros?

If you want to take your conference room technology to the next level, contact American Sound for installation. We can help you transform your conference room into a more useful and effective space.