Top Teams Room Devices for Maximizing Corporate Collaboration
With the rise of hybrid work environments and frequent guest collaborations, most businesses require straightforward and efficient conferencing solutions. Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) offer a seamless solution for enhancing meeting experiences, ensuring that teams can collaborate efficiently, regardless of their location. Knowing the technologies available, is essential to providing clients with the best equipment to set up these rooms. Let’s explore the top Teams Room devices available from Exertis Almo while covering the basics of setting up and optimizing Microsoft Teams Rooms.
What equipment is needed for a Teams meeting?
To ensure a successful Teams meeting or to set up a Teams Room, having the right equipment is crucial. This includes reliable computing hardware, high-quality audio and video devices, and control systems that make managing meetings effortless. Here are the key components you’ll need:
- Reliable Computing Hardware: A desktop, laptop, or dedicated Teams device.
- High-Quality Audio and Video Equipment: Microphones, speakers, and video cameras.
- Stable Internet Connection: Ensures smooth communication without interruptions.
- Display Screens: For sharing presentations and viewing participants.
- Control Devices: Touch panels or consoles to manage meetings.
Exertis Almo offers a range of devices that meet these needs, such as the Jabra PanaCast 50 Intelligent Video Bar which transforms video conferencing. With features such as dynamic composition, intelligent speaker, and virtual director, it ensures optimal collaboration by adjusting views and focusing on active speakers. Its advanced AI, including intelligent zoom and dual-stream whiteboard, makes Teams meetings immersive and easy to use.
What are the major components of Microsoft Teams Rooms?
Creating a fully functional Microsoft Teams Room involves integrating several major components that work together to provide a seamless meeting experience. These components ensure that meetings are easy to manage, and that audio and video quality are top-notch. Here are the essential elements:
- Control Console: A touch panel for easy meeting management.
- Camera: A high-definition camera for clear video.
- Microphone and Speakers: For clear audio input and output.
- Computer Module: A mini-PC or similar device to run the Teams Room application.
- Digital Display: One or more screens for video conferencing and content sharing.
For example, the Huddly IQ ePTZ Cameras are excellent for boosting meeting engagement with their AI-directed multi-camera system.
The MAXHUB Commercial Display Ultra-Wide Series is perfect for MTR, featuring a 105″ collaboration display with a 21:9 aspect ratio and 5K resolution.
The MAXHUB XT Series Kit for Microsoft Teams Rooms includes a computer, touch console, and integrated video bar, providing ultimate scalability for any meeting room setup.
What are the benefits of Microsoft Teams Rooms?
Microsoft Teams Rooms offer several benefits:
- Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitates better communication and teamwork.
- Ease of Use: One-touch join, and intuitive interfaces make it easy to start and manage meetings.
- High-Quality Audio and Video: Ensures clear communication.
- Scalability: Suitable for rooms of all sizes, from small huddle spaces to large conference rooms.
- Integration with Microsoft 365: Seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools and services.
By using top Teams Room devices, you can ensure that your conference room projects are equipped with the latest technology to maximize collaboration and productivity.
In Conclusion
Providing your clients with the right equipment for Microsoft Teams Rooms can significantly enhance their meeting experiences. By offering high-quality, reliable solutions from Exertis Almo, you position yourself as a trusted resource, ensuring your clients’ video conferencing needs are perfectly met.
The team at Exertis Almo is committed to providing our AV reseller and integrator partners with the latest and most innovative collaboration solutions for Teams Rooms and more. Contact us for a consultation, a quote, help with Microsoft licenses, and more.
Lisa Lingo, Category Manager – Collaboration
Still curious about collaboration solutions? Check out Lisa Lingo’s blog, “Stop, Collaborate and Listen“.
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While we offer MTR licensing, we are aware many have a solution in place. Keep in mind, we can tailor a complete MTR solution, including Teams Room licenses to fit the budget and needs. Regardless of where you acquire your solution, do you have the right hardware to make for the best meetings? A camera and audio are a great starting point, but we can help you further. Do you need to share content with the participants in the room even when not using a conference solution? Do you need to capture these meetings for later playback? Has a touch control panel been considered? Or perhaps an interactive display?
Crystal-Clear Communication
Who said training has to be boring? With the latest interactive displays, training sessions become an immersive experience that gets everyone pumped. Picture this: government employees in front of massive touchscreens, collaborating on real-time scenarios, and solving problems together like a band jamming out a new hit. 
Now, let’s crank it up a notch for our audience with hearing impairments. Assisted listening devices (ALDs) are like the VIP passes that make sure everyone gets front-row sound, no matter where they’re seated. One of the rockstars in this space is Listen Technologies with their Listen EVERYWHERE system. This cutting-edge solution streams audio directly to users’ smartphones, letting them tap into the sound with their own headphones or hearing aids. Whether it’s hearing loops that sync up with hearing aids or infrared systems that cut through the noise, these bad boys plug right into the AV setup, delivering crystal-clear audio straight to those who need it most.
