Room Assessment & Design

Conference Room Design Systems and Solutions

ET Group provides a 360° approach that considers room assessment and design as important components in assessing and building your collaborative ecosystem.  Our services help you evaluate and optimize your collaboration and presentation rooms based on your specific business goals and industry best practices. The results are purpose-designed rooms that are easy to use and that enable your workforce to innovate and collaborate effectively in the room and remotely.

Key features of ‘smart’ spaces include:

Control Automation

Control systems allow you to do what you wish, quickly and easily, with the touch of a button. Our intuitively designed and professionally programmed control solutions simplify the user experience in complex collaboration systems. Whether you need to control an in-room presentation, an international video conference or a multi-conferencing tool collaboration between multiple locations, well-designed control systems make it simple.

Control systems help improve productivity and room utilization by allowing you to book available collaboration spaces, quickly and easily, and with the assurance that you will have the technology and work space you need, directly from Outlook, your web browser, or at the room entrance. Control system technology also supports your sustainability strategies by allowing corporations to track and optimize energy consumption.

Green Benefits

There are many opportunities to Go Green when updating your work spaces.  For example:

  1. Turn system on and off automatically at the right times
  2. Add room sensors and set presets for shades to control daylight harvesting and only use lights when they are really needed
  3. Monitor and communicate your energy consumption and savings trends via a flash-based, stylish interface in your lobby
  4. Tie into the building control systems

There are no limitations to keeping your organization on the cutting-edge, increase efficiencies and lower costs.

Interactive Surfaces

Interactive surfaces such as interactive whiteboards (IWB) are gaining significant momentum as another collaborative tool.  IWB solutions allow people to connect and innovate faster while also reducing the need for paper and travel, effectively reducing a company’s GHC emissions. IWB’s allow you to open files, applications, and share and interact with multimedia on large, multi-touch enabled, surfaces.  They also allow your organization to write notes in digital ink on the most common business applications and share them instantly via email. Learn more >>

Multiple Inputs and Display Options

Enabling employees to be more productive and collaborate more effectively is of paramount importance for companies across industry sectors. Relatively simple considerations, like having multiple input locations in collaboration spaces, allow you to share information quickly and effectively. Having multiple displays in a room allows you to increase the richness of the experience by sharing information with the right people in a format that is easily digestible. It also allows you to present information in a one-to-many format, or in a many-to-many collaborative format where people can interact with the information via an interactive whiteboard, a PC or an iPad,

There is a signal technology transition underway from analog to digital. New installations need to be flexible and interoperability must be part of every collaboration space in order to extend its useful life. Learn more >>

Maximize Screen Real Estate

An easy way to improve productivity is to increase the amount of available screen real estate throughout the collaboration spaces. To make decisions and drive new innovations faster and more effectively, we need to be able to share, collaborate, and draw on relevant information quickly. The richness of the collaborative experience is greatly enhanced by maximizing screen real estate and selecting the right types of displays, allowing multiple data types to be shared simultaneously. Think of new collaboration spaces as mini control centers where you can access, show and collaborate in multiple forms, in an easy and intuitive manner.

Ability to Connect to Remote Sites and Users

Effective collaboration spaces need to allow you to bring the right people to the table no matter where they are located. In order to do this effectively, we use technologies like audio, video, web conferencing and interactive white boarding to bring people together. Having multiple technologies in the room allows you to use the most effective method of collaboration to focus on the task at hand. Watch Video >>

Proper Lighting, Colors, and Acoustics

Effective collaboration spaces need to have the right lighting, colors, and acoustics to enable in-room and remote collaboration. Applications like audio conferencing and video conferencing require special attention to allow all collaboration technologies to perform as well as possible. By doing so, the richness of the collaboration is enhanced and technology challenges are mitigated.

Failure to account for these key room characteristics can result in failed implementations, regardless of the size of the investment in the latest technologies.

Remote Monitoring and Management

Remote monitoring and support allows organizations to streamline the management of the service and support functions for the collaborative work spaces. The ET Group provides a full range of solutions to manage the collaborative technologies on a regional, national or global basis. Proper management will allow users to work more effectively and provide proactive support.

Built-in reporting will enable you to track resource usage for more effective purchasing, scheduling, and resource allocation. Remote management significantly reduces response time in case of technical issues, as it allows your internal support team or our customer support center to troubleshoot many issues remotely.