Neat Board Review: Great Collaboration Across the Board

The Neat Board flips the script for collaboration

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NEAT BOARD REVIEW
Meeting Rooms and Devices

Published: July 20, 2021

Rebekah Carter - Writer

Rebekah Carter

Neat, a company innovating in the delivery of sensational video and conferencing tools for the modern age of work, offers a host of collaborative tools to today’s teams. The Neat brand is best-known for its commitment to bridging the gap between remote and in-office employees, with everything from advanced sensor technology to the Neat bar for video conferencing.  

The Neat board, created in collaboration with Zoom Rooms, is a powerful Room kit solution, built to enable and empower a new generation of workers. Sleek and streamlined, the Neat board packages the comprehensive room kit experience into an all-in-one device, complete with its own immersive 65-inch touchscreen for sharing content.  

Let’s take a closer look at the capabilities of the Neat Board.  

Neat Board review: Features 

The Neat Board looks, at first glance, like a sophisticated monitor. In reality, this is a comprehensive Zoom Rooms package, refined into an all-in-one device. The Neat Board for Zoom Rooms contains everything you need for an impeccable meeting, from an interactive 65-inch multi-touch screen to a camera system for capturing video information.  

The Neat Board is suitable for use in various spaces, with multiple mounting options, intended to turn any board room or free office space into a meeting environment in minutes. Neat also promises a convenient plug-and-play experience, so companies don’t have to waste precious time arranging each of their meetings in advance. Video, audio and content sharing features all come packaged together in an accessible environment. 

Features include: 

  • 65-inch multi-touch LED screen 
  • Ultra HD 4K screen resolution 
  • Anti-fingerprint and anti-glare coating 
  • Camera LED and ambient light sensor 
  • Sensors for temperature, CO2, humidity and VOC 
  • Table stand, floor stand, or wall mount 
  • 12MP camera with 4 x digital zoom 
  • 120-degrees of horizontal field of view 
  • Automatic people framing 
  • Distortion correction and noise reduction 
  • Automatic white balance and colour correction 
  • Room-filling sound with built-in speakers 
  • 3 sensor microphones and 5 microphones end-fire array 
  • Hardware-accelerated audio processing 
  • Beamforming, noise suppression and echo cancellation 

Neat Board review: Benefits 

As a sleek all-in-one solution for video conferencing, the Neat Board brings people together like never before, with the support of Zoom Rooms. The Neat Board touchscreen display at the heart of the kit helps to make content sharing easier than ever, while exceptional video and audio technology keep everyone engaged in the meeting.  

Unlike previous meeting room solutions, the Neat Board is an easy-to-use, plug-and-play solution intended to make better meetings as simple as possible. The Board responds to user presence, automatically waking up when someone walks in a room, and the seamless integration with Zoom makes everything feel wonderfully intuitive. Some of the biggest benefits include: 

  • Intelligent interactive whiteboard: The 65-inch LED screen with Ultra-HD screen resolution takes content sharing and collaboration to the next level. The screen wakes up automatically when you walk into the room, and makes it easy for users to write notes, organise thoughts and annotate ideas in no time. You can wirelessly share your screen with a tap, and access “infinite canvassing” through Zoom meeting software.  
  • Excellent video quality: The Neat Board comes with a 12MP built-in camera, featuring 4 x digital zoom, 120 degrees of field of view, automatic people framing, distortion correction, and more. The video experience looks and feels perfect, so you can feel like you’re in the same room as your colleagues. Auto group framing even adjusts the view automatically to ensure no-one feels left out
  • Powerful audio: Alongside video, the Neat Board also manages audio on your behalf, with a speakerbox system offering room-filling sound with minimal distortion. There’s even a dedicated wide-angle tweeter. For capturing your audio, the Board offers 3 sensor mics and 5 microphones angled to an end-fire array. The microphones in the system work together with innovative technology like echo cancellation, beam forming, and noise suppression
  • Simple creativity: The Neat Board is quick and easy to set up, and everyone can enjoy working on it, thanks to amazing ease-of-use. There’s a pair of Neat markers included to allow people to sketch and add content at the same time. Anything you capture on the board can also save into your Zoom cloud environment, so you can easily share your thoughts with the rest of your team, or just save them for later
  • Safety for the modern workplace: The Neat Board is a comprehensive solution for the modern workforce, not just because it comes with everything you need for meetings, but also because it considers the safety of those collaborative experiences. Built-in sensors allow users to monitor things like humidity, room temperature, air quality, VOC and CO2 levels in a meeting room, to better care for team members 

Who Needs the Neat Board? 

For next-level meeting experiences, the Neat Board is a second-to-none solution. Offering all-in-one support for your Zoom Rooms investment, the Neat Board converts everything a modern team needs for digital brainstorming into a simple kit. For the age of hybrid work, this solution should ensure that all of your employees can operate in tandem, with minimal restrictions.  

If you’re already invested in the Zoom collaboration ecosystem, the Neat Board will help you to take your conferencing experience to the next level. Intelligent solutions like Neat Audio Processing with noise cancellation and high-quality 4K camera streams make employees feel like they’re in the same room again. For the age of social distancing, the Neat sensors for tracking room quality are sure to provide business leaders with peace of mind.  

Neat Board Review: Verdict 

Superb audio, video, and content sharing join together in a convenient and streamlined experience with the Neat Board. Beautifully designed to support the Zoom Rooms ecosystem, the Neat Board addresses every issue you might have with video conferencing in the new age of work. From built-in sensors for tracking room statistics, to automatic noise cancellation, the Neat Board has what it takes to let teams collaborate however and whenever they choose.  

Access to accessories like the Neat Pad and additional tools even means that you can adapt your experience to suit your needs, adding new functionality as your business evolves.  

 

 

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