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Video & A/V Vendors Show Their Innovation: Page 4 of 8

ClearOne

With a group of recent patent awards, ClearOne was showing off its microphone technology, as well as its Skype for Business capabilities within its Collaboration Pro line of room video conferencing systems and CONVERGE Pro 2 product line. These devices can now register on Skype for Business or Office 365 servers.

In addition, the company announced a new version of its VIEW Pro system. New features include a web-based UI, a re-design of the configuration tool area to simplify common tasks, and more.

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Comm-Tec

Our friends at European distributor Comm-Tec showed off the latest and greatest technologies from their global partners. Noteworthy items included:

  • The Barco Overture software-based control system, which runs on standard off-the-shelf hardware and sports template-based HTML 5 user interfaces
  • The QSC next-generation platform offering audio, video, and control within a single environment
  • The Visionect/GetJoan wireless e-ink meeting room scheduling system offering 12 weeks of battery life and a customizable GUI

Comm-Tec is also a leading (if not the #1) distributor of Barco ClickShare.

Crestron

A/V market powerhouse Crestron made quite a splash at ISE with a combination of product-related and business-related announcements, as well as ongoing system demos.

Notably, what we view as the most important Crestron announcement at ISE, the debut of the DM XiO Edge, wasn't even formally announced. As far as we can tell, there is no press release on this, and a search for XiO Edge on the Crestron website returns zilch. XiO Edge is essentially a server-based version of the company's 3-Series control system. So customers enjoy Crestron-level reliability, redundancy, and security (including authentication and encryption), in a scalable, IT-friendly form factor. After years of asking (almost begging) for such an offering, we're glad to see it happen.

Visitors also saw demos of the DM XiO Director, a new IT-friendly A/V matrix offering centralized configuration, management, and control of DM NVX network A/V systems. Crestron also showed XiO Cloud, a cloud-based provisioning platform that offers centralized configuration, monitoring, management, and control of various Crestron products including Crestron Mercury and XiO Edge centralized control systems (see, "No Jitter Roll: Five for Friday").

Am I the only one seeing a common theme here? Centralization. Scalability. IT-Friendliness. It's a new day at New Jersey-based Crestron.

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In addition, the company announced and demoed FreeForm (shown to the right), an appliance designed for mounting behind displays that enables wired or wireless presentation with auto-switching. FreeForm is designed for use in open enterprise spaces (lobbies, lounges, etc.) and includes built-in AirMedia 2.0 wireless presentation.

We also saw the debut of AirMedia 2.0, the updated version of Crestron's AirMedia wireless presentation technology offering. AirMedia 2.0 is built into a range of Crestron solutions, including Mercury.

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ISE was also the coming out party for the AirBoard PoE electronic whiteboard solution (shown to the right) that captures dry erase board content and makes it viewable on any display device. AirBoard is the result of Crestron's recently inked partnership with Kaptivo (also announced during ISE).

Finally, Crestron also introduced and demoed a new line of wall-mount media presentation controllers, a new line of Horizon keypads, and four new FlipTops.

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