Content, Collaboration, and Control

While Feldstein had a control solution top of mind at the outset, he’d naturally included the other two pillars of what Crestron’s all about today. He’d intuitively understood at the outset of his work that the most productive meetings and engaging classes share something in common: technology that enhances human connection rather than getting in the way. When content flows effortlessly, people connect naturally, and spaces respond intelligently, remarkable things happen — that’s the magic when you integrate content, collaboration, and control. They’re the three pillars of modern meeting and learning spaces.

Collaboration

Collaboration is just as vital. Think of a meeting in which half the attendees are remote — and how much better those meetings become when everyone can see and be seen, and hear and be heard. That’s the fundamental concept behind what we call “meeting equity.” The right collaboration tools help keep everyone engaged, maximizing productivity by enabling equal participation for remote employees, hybrid learners, and teams whose members are distributed over various locations.

Crestron offers intelligent audio and video solutions that adapt to natural interactions from the smallest conference rooms to the largest virtual classrooms. Crestron Flex video conferencing tools support both business meetings and educational sessions. Our intelligent video technology presents natural conversation framing in training rooms and lecture halls, and intelligent audio processing ensures every voice is heard. AirMedia presentation and conferencing tools can transform any room into a high-performance BYOD space. Add scheduling solutions that allow people to find and book spaces with ease, and you’ve built the foundation for truly inclusive meetings and equitable learning experiences.

Control

Control can make complex technology invisible for presenters and educators. When a presenter or meeting leader walks into a meeting space, they shouldn’t have to worry about the tech that will drive that meeting, from lighting to climate to the Content and Collaboration elements mentioned above. Intuitive interfaces empower people to manage technology, personalize workspaces, and effortlessly transition between tasks, simplifying complex systems — sometimes with one touch or even no touch at all in a completely automated space. 

Crestron Control unifies diverse systems into cohesive experiences that can respond autonomously, whether starting a presentation or beginning a lecture, integrating every device in a meeting space or smart classroom. Our intuitive user interfaces have been designed to provide a frictionless experience for both corporate and educational users. And to keep everything running smoothly — even across the largest campus or enterprise deployments — our XiO Cloud® technology operations management platform offers centralized management from office buildings to school districts. It’s our goal to create technology that anticipates needs rather than interrupting meetings or lessons.

The Power of Integration

Every space is different, of course, and each is built for different needs and priorities. The focus of a meeting room may be collaboration, while a large lecture hall demands the prioritization of content. But when all three pillars are working in concert — when the meeting room can shift to a presentation space or a professor can, at a moment’s notice, open the floor for a Q&A from both in-person and remote learners, that’s when the magic happens. With a layer of frictionless control managing the moment, you have the ingredients for a true transformation of how we work and learn.

For that transformation to be complete, the technology at hand must be designed to adapt to the natural way that presenters, professors, and meeting facilitators teach and work. That includes systems that can easily be set up to “recognize” people and situations and execute their necessary functions with a single touch — or even no touch at all. These systems have to adapt to any room configuration, too, as you’ll find in this example that leverages all the technology we’re speaking of, a high-impact space in our Crestron offices in Cypress, CA:

What makes this room particularly special is its flexibility. It’s excellent as a training or presentation space, in which meeting attendees are seated in a traditional classroom arrangement, but it can also be quickly — and very easily — converted into one of five other seating configurations to suit the needs of the meeting or demonstration within the space.