Charbax | Crestron 4K Videoconferencing Smart Camera for Boardrooms and Meeting Spaces at Swiss IT Forum @charbax | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Florent Benard from Crestron presented their advanced meeting room and boardroom solutions at the SSS exhibition. These solutions include intelligent camera systems designed for various settings like boardrooms, auditoriums, and meeting spaces, ensuring every participant is captured in high-quality video regardless of where they are seated or which display they’re looking at. The technology features cameras capable of zooming, tilting, and capturing individuals based on their interaction in the room. For example, the system can prioritize capturing the person speaking, especially if it's someone important, like a president or board member.
The camera system uses intelligent tracking features, capable of recognizing individuals in a room and framing them as a group. Florent demonstrated how the system works, noting that the tracking is dynamic but can also be manually controlled using a customizable touch panel. This panel offers flexibility, allowing users to control various settings, including video sharing and video conferencing modes. The system can automatically adjust between different cameras, ensuring the highest quality video capture, including up to 4K resolution with an optical zoom of up to 20x, allowing details to remain sharp even when zoomed in.
The system offers a professional and dynamic presentation experience, featuring smart focus capabilities that can blur the background while keeping the subject in clear focus. This creates a sophisticated appearance for meetings, webinars, and presentations. One of the standout features is its integration with audio systems, where the camera system can detect who is speaking by using microphones placed on tables or ceilings. This allows the system to switch between cameras intelligently, ensuring that the focus is always on the active speaker.
Florent emphasized that the technology also supports additional features like displaying the name of the speaker or creating multiple layouts. This enables the system to follow a speaker as they move around the room and can adapt to display more than one person during group discussions. It can integrate external content from devices like laptops or phones, making it suitable for professional presentations. This flexibility allows companies to customize the entire setup, from integrating their logos to selecting different backgrounds, thus ensuring a polished and branded experience.
Despite being relatively new—having launched less than a year ago—the solution is already gaining interest among larger companies with luxury meeting rooms or boardrooms. Florent mentioned that Crestron collaborates with reputable audio solution providers like Shure, Sennheiser, and Biamp to deliver high-quality sound that syncs perfectly with the video. This ensures that audio-visual synchronization issues are eliminated, thanks to Crestron's NVX solution, which allows video, audio, and USB content to be shared over the company network without requiring extensive cabling.
Crestron’s system is designed to match the quality of high-end, mirrorless cameras, providing sharp, high-resolution video with features such as exposure settings and smart functions. Florent hinted at the possibility of incorporating AI features that could further enhance the camera’s ability to follow speakers, adapt to different reactions, or even select the most flattering angles for participants, ensuring they always look their best during video conferences.
One of the unique aspects of Crestron’s technology is its ability to analyze which display a speaker is looking at and switch to the appropriate camera, ensuring the best possible view of the person. This kind of intelligence offers a more natural and professional experience for virtual meetings, making participants feel as if they are physically present in the room, even when attending remotely. Users have the flexibility to switch between automatic and manual modes, giving them control over how the system functions during different parts of a meeting.
Crestron has a long history in the industry, with over 50 years of experience. They’ve recently decided to develop their own camera system to ensure full control over the features and integration within their ecosystem, making deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting more seamless. The company operates globally, with over 5,000 employees, and provides local support through partners like High Technologies. Their solutions are tailored to each customer's needs, with pricing varying based on the room size, materials, and required programming, but potential clients can request a customized offer through Crestron's sales teams.
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Florent Benard from Crestron presented their advanced meeting room and boardroom solutions at the SSS exhibition. These solutions include intelligent camera systems designed for various settings like boardrooms, auditoriums, and meeting spaces, ensuring every participant is captured in high-quality video regardless of where they are seated or which display they’re looking at. The technology features cameras capable of zooming, tilting, and capturing individuals based on their interaction in the room. For example, the system can prioritize capturing the person speaking, especially if it's someone important, like a president or board member.
The camera system uses intelligent tracking features, capable of recognizing individuals in a room and framing them as a group. Florent demonstrated how the system works, noting that the tracking is dynamic but can also be manually controlled using a customizable touch panel. This panel offers flexibility, allowing users to control various settings, including video sharing and video conferencing modes. The system can automatically adjust between different cameras, ensuring the highest quality video capture, including up to 4K resolution with an optical zoom of up to 20x, allowing details to remain sharp even when zoomed in.
The system offers a professional and dynamic presentation experience, featuring smart focus capabilities that can blur the background while keeping the subject in clear focus. This creates a sophisticated appearance for meetings, webinars, and presentations. One of the standout features is its integration with audio systems, where the camera system can detect who is speaking by using microphones placed on tables or ceilings. This allows the system to switch between cameras intelligently, ensuring that the focus is always on the active speaker.
Florent emphasized that the technology also supports additional features like displaying the name of the speaker or creating multiple layouts. This enables the system to follow a speaker as they move around the room and can adapt to display more than one person during group discussions. It can integrate external content from devices like laptops or phones, making it suitable for professional presentations. This flexibility allows companies to customize the entire setup, from integrating their logos to selecting different backgrounds, thus ensuring a polished and branded experience.
Despite being relatively new—having launched less than a year ago—the solution is already gaining interest among larger companies with luxury meeting rooms or boardrooms. Florent mentioned that Crestron collaborates with reputable audio solution providers like Shure, Sennheiser, and Biamp to deliver high-quality sound that syncs perfectly with the video. This ensures that audio-visual synchronization issues are eliminated, thanks to Crestron's NVX solution, which allows video, audio, and USB content to be shared over the company network without requiring extensive cabling.
Crestron’s system is designed to match the quality of high-end, mirrorless cameras, providing sharp, high-resolution video with features such as exposure settings and smart functions. Florent hinted at the possibility of incorporating AI features that could further enhance the camera’s ability to follow speakers, adapt to different reactions, or even select the most flattering angles for participants, ensuring they always look their best during video conferences.
One of the unique aspects of Crestron’s technology is its ability to analyze which display a speaker is looking at and switch to the appropriate camera, ensuring the best possible view of the person. This kind of intelligence offers a more natural and professional experience for virtual meetings, making participants feel as if they are physically present in the room, even when attending remotely. Users have the flexibility to switch between automatic and manual modes, giving them control over how the system functions during different parts of a meeting.
Crestron has a long history in the industry, with over 50 years of experience. They’ve recently decided to develop their own camera system to ensure full control over the features and integration within their ecosystem, making deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting more seamless. The company operates globally, with over 5,000 employees, and provides local support through partners like High Technologies. Their solutions are tailored to each customer's needs, with pricing varying based on the room size, materials, and required programming, but potential clients can request a customized offer through Crestron's sales teams.
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