Working from Home? Make Video Conferencing Easy with Savant
Get Your Own Automated Zoom Room at Home
The work from home revolution did not begin in 2020. Millions of Americans may have first heard of Zoom videoconferencing during the pandemic, but the company has been around since 2011. And of course, video conferencing solutions have been around for over 25 years.
What hasn't been around for over 25 years is the technology to make video conferencing and collaboration incredibly easy from anywhere. In the past several years alone, the confluence of faster internet bandwidth (outside of commercial spaces), better cameras and microphones in smart devices, and improved cloud-powered software have made working from anywhere much more accessible.
As New York continues to fight the effects of the pandemic, many executives and professionals are still working from homes in Long Island and elsewhere. But in their modern offices in Manhattan or on corporate campuses, they may have gotten used to the highly integrated conference room systems that created a more immersive collaborative experience beyond the laptop. Companies like Zoom have enabled the integration of high-quality audio and video conferencing systems with their software for a seamless meeting experience. So how do you get that at home?
Savant has collaborated with Zoom to bring the office collaboration experience to the home office. Read on to see how to make your home office or studio a high-powered Zoom Room.
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SETTING THE SCENE
In the office, your video conference room may have automation for quickly enabling the correct setup for a meeting. One button can fire up the display, dim the lights, draw shades, turn on microphones and video, and launch the scheduled meeting. Savant home automation has all those capabilities, and they wanted to bring it to bear for a better home working experience.
Savant’s Zoom Room integration can take advantage of Savant scenes for the same functions. When it’s time to start a meeting, the lights get set for optimal viewing of the screen and you. Your background music automatically pauses, your video camera and wall-mounted display starts, and your audio can start muted. As an added touch, a color LED light strip behind your display glows red to remind you you're muted or green so that you know you're being heard. When it's time to shut down your meeting, one button can set everything back the way you usually prefer.
HIGH-QUALITY AUDIO AND VIDEO
With a large Zoom meeting, it might be challenging to see and track all the faces on a small screen. Likewise, audio quality, especially for video calls, is less than stellar on laptops or tablets. Savant has partnered with proven vendors like Logitech, Huddly, and Beyerdynamic to seamlessly integrate their microphone, camera, and audio solutions for a richer, more immersive meeting and collaboration experience.
With the integration, there will be no fiddling with inputs for your external display, microphone, headset, camera, or speakers. Your Savant home automation system handles the details, just like in the executive boardroom back at the office. Savant offers pre-configured packages with equipment from these partners for different home office environments to make installation and setup quicker and easier.
Ready to add the ease of Zoom Room video conferencing to your home office or studio? Connect with our team by filling out our online contact form to schedule a free consultation. We look forward to working with you.
