To help you make an informed decision, we’ve provided video overviews of the main camera technologies, along with their features, benefits, and potential drawbacks, so you can choose the best option for your unique use case and meeting space.

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Let Cenero help you determine which camera is the best fit for your specific environment. Contact us for a free demo of any of the camera types.

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• Collaborate in real time on room elements, allowing for quick decision making on all aspects of a space from camera view and microphones to table type and room decor
• Clearly demonstrate acoustics with reverberation visualization that shows how sound bounces off of different surfaces and how to set up a room for best audio clarity
• See what the camera sees by looking at the field of view of a video camera to ensure it is placed in the best spot to clearly see everyone in the room

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The current meeting space set up does not work very well for hybrid meetings. Remote participants often have trouble seeing and hearing people in the room, viewing content on the whiteboard, or even worse, get left out during in room conversations.  It is time to rethink spaces to make sure everyone can be seen and heard, and fully participate from any location.

Rethinking Hybrid Meeting Spaces

The solution? Redesign meeting rooms, optimizing the layout and the technology for more inclusive, interactive, and immersive hybrid meeting experiences. For example:

• Reconfigure the room with the display on the long wall and a curved table facing the screen
• Display video calls in new video gallery format that maximizes content size and provides a life size view of remote attendees
• Place camera at eye level, making interactions between people in the room and remote participants feel more natural
• Include AI-informed audio and video, such as intelligent cameras that enhance focus and framing, allowing people in the room to have their own frame in the gallery view

Updating spaces can help improve face-to-face interactions with remote teams, making the hybrid meeting experience better for everyone, in every space.

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The right technology can make or break a video meeting. Smart AV solutions can offer both in-office and remote participants an equal seat at the table, so everyone can engage and interact easily and comfortably.

 AI–informed technology can improve audio, video and interactive experiences, creating a consistency across spaces and seamlessly connecting remote teams. Everyone can be seen and heard clearly, providing everyone with the same great meeting experience from any location.

Intelligent Video

Advanced auto tracking cameras automatically moves the lens and adjusts the zoom to frame all meeting participants, or a single person. Using AI, voice and face tracking, and automated PTZ, smart cameras can adapt to meeting dynamics – highlighting active speakers, displaying everyone in the room, and combining both options for a clear view of the conversation.

Cameras allow remote participants to see the whole room and individual participants simultaneously – everyone is always in view, for more engaging and interactive meeting experiences.

Smart Audio

Advanced audio technology can remove unwanted background noise from meetings, even while someone is speaking. Smart microphones zero in on active speakers, auto level loud and soft voices and auto boost quiet talkers, giving everyone an equal voice during meetings.

Meeting Equality

By incorporating smart AV technology, all participants can enjoy the same great experience from any location. Solutions need to be flexible and consistent, and offer high quality audio and video for all meeting types.

It is also important to consider the type of space, and select the right technology for room size and use cases, so that every meeting flows seamlessly, every time.

Poly AI-driven technologies can help make hybrid meeting experiences equally engaging for all participants.

Learn more about Poly meeting room solutions, or contact Cenero to learn more.

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You have new technology in place to empower collaboration throughout your organization – but now what? How do you know if people are using the technology and how it is being used – for what types of meetings? Are there common problems that prohibit users from leveraging the new solutions to their fullest capacity? 

You can learn a great deal about meeting details, room usage, system performance and common issues by examining the data related to your AV technology. Access to this information can help you better plan for future requirements, alleviate frequent issues and make smarter business decisions moving forward.

Meeting Details

Information on who uses the meeting spaces and the most frequent types of meetings will help you make more informed decisions
regarding future collaboration space and technology investments. You will be able to:

• Identify the most common types of meetings – video calls, conference calls, presentations, etc.
• Identify trends by room, office or across all locations

Room Usage Analysis 

By evaluating data on room usage, you will clearly be able to see how your technology is being used, allowing you to better leverage the technology as productive business tools. This information can help you:

• Determine how often rooms and technology are used and see what is never used
• Track usage by room, system or date

Service Call Monitoring 

With many different rooms and systems, problems that users deal with in each room on a daily basis are often not tracked. But this means that the same problem can occur over and over again with no resolution in sight. By identifying frequent problems you can easily alleviate recurring issues, preventing meeting delays and encouraging usage and adoption. Tracking service tickets and trends will allow you to: 

• Access information on service issues and common problems so they can be fixed and avoided in the future
• Track issues by room, system, data or office  – common trends can be identified to see what solutions might be causing problems across many rooms or offices

System Performance Results 

It is important that you are aware of how your systems are performing every day. Gaining an understanding of performance details across systems, rooms and offices will help you make sure you are getting the most from your technology and will be useful information when planning for future requirements. This data will allow you to:

• See room performance including test results and monitoring data over time
• Determine what systems and components are working and what needs to be replaced
• Understand when a system is not working to fix the issue quickly before it becomes a problem

Inventory Tracking 

By tracking all your complex technology in one location you will have an easy-to-access database of all equipment and documentation
to allow you to get the
most value from your complex technology. You will be able to:

• Search inventory by room, manufacturer, model, type or action
• Access one central location for device information, documentation,
  inventory and warranties

The Power of an Analytics Dashboard

In order to leverage your complex collaboration technology to the greatest extent, you can manage all technology and track room performance, service tickets and trend details in one easy-to-use location- an Analytics Dashboard. A detailed data platform can enhance business performance, improve room uptime and increase your cost savings. 

Our suite of managed services, Constant Connect, includes a comprehensive Analytics Dashboard that provides quick access to all the data you need to make better business decisions. Learn more about our updated Dashboard or sign up for a free walk through here.

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The Concourse A expansion features  video walls from NanoLumens®, award-winning creators of uniquely compelling LED visualization solutions in any size, shape, or curvature — and renown digital artist Refik Anadol’s unique “data sculptures” that turn the airport’s invisible patterns of data into captivating and ever-changing content featured on the three displays. This alluring installation, dubbed “Interconnected,” is a part of a total commitment by the airport to reimagine modern travel through the eyes of compelling and immersive digital experiences.

Frank Milesky of Cenero, the integration firm who from the beginning approached the video wall installation as a fusion of technology, art, and design, explained that, “The goal here was to seamlessly integrate digital artwork that reflects the movement and traffic of the airport, essentially the airport’s data culture, into the architecture of the new concourse,” Milesky explained. “This install isn’t merely about displaying content, it’s about changing the entire passenger experience at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.”

The centerpiece video wall for Interconnected sits inside the airport’s Concourse A and stretches 140-feet wide by 10-feet high. One challenge for Cenero was making sure a screen this large would display a seamless image without bezels and also handle all daytime ambient light coming in through the concourse’s many windows.

“The main display is huge, and because it is visible both inside and outside the airport the high brightness quality of the NanoLumens displays was essential here,” Cenero added. “NanoLumens was actually the perfect solution for this particular high-definition digital art content as the image quality is brilliant and seamless and it truly needed to be for the nature of the artwork.”

Cenero installed two additional displays in oddly shaped corners in the gates located at the end of Concourse A that are also visible both inside and outside the airport. The trapezoid-shaped displays measure approximately 28×15-feet in one corner and 40×19-feet in the other corner. Each of these displays also run 24-hours a day and are synchronized with the larger concourse display as each has its own distinct visual chapter.

The continuing trend of audio visual video wall technology turning the time spent at airports into a memorable part of the overall travel experience is on display in a new and exciting way at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

“This video wall installation is grabbing travelers’ attention before they even enter the airport as it is clearly visible from the parking garage and street across from the new concourse,” added NanoLumens Southeast Regional Sales Director, Arch Nelson. “We have clearly moved beyond the days of what static signage can do and this project is a perfect marriage of Refik’s amazing digital artwork and the state-of-the-art display technology from NanoLumens.”

For the over 44-million travelers that move through Charlotte Douglas International Airport annually, Refik’s Interconnected will surely leave a lasting impression.

As for the artist himself, Refik added, “The artwork being displayed is constantly changing and evolving as it responds to the ever-changing flow of data, creating a living snapshot of the invisible patterns that surrounds us as we travel to, from, and within Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

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