In just 10 years, Genee World has developed and brought to market an astonishing wide range of AV solutions, built a stronghold in education and made and started to win customers in the commercial and corporate sectors. In this strategy interview, company founder and former headmaster CEO Ranjit Singh gives his take on the AV market and explains how he will evolve the Genee World business to take advantage of emerging demand.
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CDEC first flourished in the heady days of the interactive whiteboard boom. The principles laid down in the 2000 still apply today, with the commitment and passion injected by founder Andy Duckworth and managing director Toni Barnett, reinforced by sales and support teams that have built a reputation as being both dependable business partners and ‘nice people to do business with’.
Welcome to the AV News’ Distribution Guide 2015. This a selection of leading generic and highly specialist trade-only distributors that can assist you with products and services that support projects as diverse as collaborative systems, interactive solutions, video walls, home automation and classroom solutions.
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With ISE 2015 attracting 59,350 visitors you might think that’s all its necessary to say. But we like to draw the distinction between a big show and a good show – one that has plenty to inspire and inform those attending to go home and do more to make their businesses even more successful.
Even the AV years that seem a little subdued have their highlights – and the beginnings of trends that will deliver some considerable impact further down the track. Here is the AV News selection of significant events as 2014 draws to a close.
New AV News reporter Jessica Dougal accepted an invitation to visit the Delta Electronics’ factory in Suzhou, China. These are her impressions.
BETT 2015 will see an unparalleled choice of classroom solutions on show, and demand some deep thinking on the part of educationalists plotting their way forwards. The traditional divide between the industry leaders has been disrupted by new entrants, new technologies and even new paradigms in the move to personalised and collaborative learning. AV News looks at some of the contenders in the fight for the educational pound, and the response from the established players.
Whether for classrooms, conference rooms or other presentation settings, it was just a matter of time before requests came for a capability that users already enjoyed at home, namely the ability to wirelessly stream content from their devices to the screens at work. Crestron AirMedia is the solution to this problem.
Crestron AirMedia is a Presentation Gateway. It enables end-users to wirelessly and securely display content on a TV using laptops, tablets and smartphones, bringing presentation, collaboration and content sharing capabilities to small conference rooms, meeting rooms and offices that aren’t wired for an AV system.
Scalability is a further consideration for wireless solutions. When a network of devices gets bigger than just a few, how do you manage them? Crestron has developed AirMedia to cater for a range of different-sized meetings. AirMedia supports up to 40 users and can display up to four sources simultaneously. Remote View allows participants in other locations to securely log in from a web browser to view the presentation.
AirMedia also includes the option of a four-digit access code to ensure the presenter sends content to the correct AirMedia gateway – not one in another room.
The Lync effect
The conference room should be a place where people can be creative, strategic and productive. During the last 40 years Crestron has innovated, engineered and perfected the smart conference room. That’s why more global organisations, such as Microsoft, The World Bank and Comcast trust and rely on Crestron conference room solutions every day.
Crestron RL is based on Microsoft Lync 2013, the popular and powerful server-based application that many companies already use on a daily basis. This Lync-based group conferencing solution goes beyond simply facilitating a connection between conference participants; it maximises the benefits of Lync connectivity in the conference room while integrating all systems, including lights, shades, and AV onto one platform.
Crestron RL connects over the corporate LAN, making implementation easy. No system design or programming is needed and if a Lync server is already in use, no additional licenses, fees, or infrastructure expenses, such as MCUs or gateways, are needed. There are multiple packages available, including one, two, or no displays and include the Crestron UC Codec for Lync, a 10″ tabletop Crestron touch screen control, as well as optional features such as a 360⁰ panoramic HD camera and microphones.
With just one touch of a button from the Crestron RL touch screen, anyone can walk into a conference room and instantly start a collaboration session. Ultra-responsive on-screen annotation brings presentations to life in a whole new way. A simple finger swipe on a touch display allows someone to make a point there and then with no wasted time searching for that elusive stylus pen!
With ‘no delay’ touch response annotation is instantly shared. Furthermore, with Crestron RL it is possible to share a desktop with local and remote participants, view and annotate over Microsoft PowerPoint or the interactive whiteboard using the 65” or 80” touch displays – all in real time. Also adding attendees on the fly from the conference room, is as fast and easy as typing their
Find out more about Crestron’s meeting room solutions at www.crestron.eu or call +44 (0)845 873 8787.
The projection screen market has seen its ups and downs over the last decade. The rapid advances in flatscreen technology, in both the residential and commercial sectors, has seen projection screen sales fail to meet the more optimistic forecasts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.