Whether it is a small huddle room, a medium conference room or a large all-hands room, optimizing your meeting rooms with efficient and secure video conferencing solutions is hugely beneficial. By understanding and integrating the best-fit VC technology in the age of hybrid, remote and flexible work environments, organisations can empower their employees (both remote...Read More
As organisations look to optimise their collaboration infrastructure, they seek a combination of features, flexibility and affordability that fits their business realities. Hybrid work models are becoming the “new normal” With businesses now working from both office and home, digital team collaboration is here to stay. In today’s digitised environment, fitting meetings into daily workflows,...Read More
Collaboration holds an important place in workplace communication with businesses consistently embracing innovative ways to collaborate. Microsoft’s new Surface Hub 2S is a fresh new perspective on collaboration packed into a beautiful piece of hardware and software. It is an interactive, light and thin whiteboard that enables mobile, uninterrupted and cordless teamwork by integrating into...Read More
Problem: Since there has been a rise in concerns over the rapid spread of COVID-19, organisations across the globe have been urging their employees to switch to working from their homes. However, as compared to their office premises, there are several challenges faced by employees in terms of collaboration, video conferencing, coordination, online learning, documentation,...Read More
AV-based training rooms have significantly improved communication between trainees and trainers while encouraging large-scale engagement and knowledge retention. It has been proven in many studies that people learn faster from visual content as compared to voice or text. This means that effective training rooms should be able to engage the attention of attendees visually and...Read More
While video conferencing is becoming an increasingly important part of our work lives, it’s a relatively new communication medium for most of us. Like any other medium for conversation (chat, email, social media), VC interaction has its own set of rules, in order to facilitate smoother “many-to-many” communication. We can be completely ourselves while video...Read More
Video conferencing is soon becoming the preferred way for businesses to conduct both one-on-one meetings as well as group meetings. Employees can use video conferencing to participate in meetings in a more relaxed and comfortable way, whether they are working from home or in the office. Live video feeds let participants interact with each other...Read More
In the last few years, telemedicine has become one of the leading service delivery models in healthcare. It has created new opportunities for doctors to reach patients around the world. It has the potential to greatly improve the standard of care around the world. Telemedicine is changing the way hospitals, clinics and private practices impact...Read More
Crestron has extended its solution portfolio with Microsoft to incorporate Microsoft Teams integration to empower meeting spaces of every size with Intelligent Communications technology. With the newly-added Microsoft Teams software functionality for Crestron Mercury and SR (Skype Room Systems) conference system, the two companies aim to make meeting spaces a hub for collaboration and productivity....Read More
Starting a video meeting should be effortless. In our conversations with prospective customers, we have often been asked to integrate an easy-to-use and hassle-free video communication solution. This is exactly where the Lifesize Icon 450 huddle and conference room video collaboration shines. The Lifesize Icon 450 is a simple, scalable way to deploy integrated, plug-and-play...Read More
The Actis Integration and AV Blog is a forum for sharing tips, insights, news, solutions and experiences with people and businesses who are undertaking different types of integration projects in India. It covers topics like Professional AV, lighting, energy management, video collaboration, unified communications, presentations, network AV and environment control.
Over time it will grow into a practical, India-specific, knowledge base to assist CIOs/CTOs, architects, AV and lighting consultants, developers, educational institutions and the hospitality industry to make better choices and get more out of their investments in technology.
