As a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, the world of work has changed. Enterprises have moved away from the traditional office environment and corporate real estate is likely to continue evolving as a small percentage of workers return to offices for at least some of the time. Many will continue to work from home, but offices will still play an important role.
Current office architecture is likely to change from smaller meeting rooms and huddle rooms to larger meeting rooms reconfigured to accommodate fewer people in line with social distancing guidelines.
These new room adaptations also affect audiovisual specification. In the past, smaller rooms generally had been equipped with lower specification equipment suited for informal or quick meetings, with an emphasis on ease and efficiency.
Now though, clear, concise communication is required consistently across all aspects of an organisation regardless of space.
It’s well understood that audio-related issues cause some of the greatest frustrations in virtual meetings, so focusing on high-quality audio is an obvious step to take. However, a fragmented approach to this can cause integration issues and just shift the existing problem into a new problem. What’s needed is a standardised estate of audiovisual equipment to ensure consistent quality and user experience.
By adopting an ecosystem of components, management becomes more practical, the user experience is easier and more enjoyable, and it is simpler to be flexible as components readily integrate with each other and from one situation to another.
To this end, the audio manufacturer has developed a new selection of products to provide system integrators and AV professionals with a complete conferencing audio solution.
The Shure Audio Ecosystem features the expanded range of award-winning products that include the complete audio signal chain from microphone to DSP to loudspeaker, offering the best possible networked audio solution for any environment – from small rooms to larger boardroom spaces and beyond – with unmatched ease of deployment, less complexity, and remote management.
