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HOT DESKING
AND SCHEDULING
For resimercial integrators being asked to
introduce more fl exibility into their customers'
small offi ces, several manufacturers
highlighted new hot-desking solutions
designed to help businesses maintain
open, fl exible fl oorplans and maximize
their existing real-estate investments.
Logitech's Logi Dock Flex
These solutions include the Logi Dock
Flex from Logitech, a managed docking
station built for shared desks in flexible
office spaces that runs the company's
new desk booking service. The device
features an eight-inch display, six USB
ports, dual display support, network
connection and up to 100 watts of power.
These are designed to be deployed at
scale and allow employees to personalize
their workstation with their own
background photo, away message, and
easily join meetings. The panel will also
signal whether the desk is available or
not for ad-hoc booking.
Crestron Desk Q & Desk Touch
Crestron is also adding to its line of
scheduling solutions with two new products:
the Crestron Desk Q and Crestron
Desk Touch. Crestron markets the Desk
Q with QR-code-based reservations for
community workstations, hot-desking
and hoteling. However, the Desk Touch,
a mini touchscreen scheduling panel, is
designed for semi-private offices, cubicles
and even some stand-up spaces.
Appspace Space Reservation
Additionally, Appspace, the workplace
experience provider, connects people,
places and spaces all under one platform.
Appspace's hot-desking and desk hoteling
allows users to book from anywhere,
whenever, whether that's through intranet,
email, Microsoſt Teams or the Appspace
Employee App. Appspace's partnership
with Metrikus also allows insight into
building data, such as occupancy, energy
usage and room usage. Integrators can
resell the Appspace soſt ware and bundle
it with diff erent things that can help make
the customer experience stronger.
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SIMPLICITY, AI
Throughout the exhibit halls, InfoComm
show-goers saw dozens of manufacturers
saying that devices and solutions need
to be easier to deploy, manage and use.
In fact, audio manufacturer Shure will tell
you that is essentially why they acquired
Stem Audio a few years back. The Stem
brand includes a customizable lineup of
microphones, speakers, speakerphones
and control systems that allow organizations
to mix and match devices, taking
the complexity out of typically complicated
meeting-room deployments.
Nearly every manufacturer that touches
the collaboration and conferencing
space pledged to make deploying and
using conferencing systems more seamless.
The idea is fairly simple: By giving
employees an office experience that is
similar to that of working from home,
where getting to work and firing up a
Zoom or Teams meeting from a laptop
is as simple as it gets, they will begin to
come back to the office. To accomplish
that feat, the AV industry has begun
leveraging AI, especially in the meetingroom
space.
AI is now a core component of hybrid
meetings, helping to eliminate unwanted
noise and keep the camera focused on the
speaker or focused on each in-room meeting
participant to give remote workers
more equitable meeting experiences. Every
manufacturer of an all-in-one device we
covered in this article off ers some variation
of AI-enabled audio and video capabilities
that are designed to keep meetings
productive and distraction-free.
This is a trend we've seen for some
time, but it has accelerated since the
COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of remote
and hybrid work. Since many organizations
are still embracing distributedwork
arrangements, we expect the AV
industry to continue embracing simplicity
and AI in its products. CI
At InfoComm 2023, Crestron highlighted its new scheduling solutions, including
Crestron Desk Q and Crestron Desk Touch.
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