Creating safe, reliable and efficient meeting room environments is becoming more of a priority for business leaders. Enterprises want to ensure that they invest in room systems that support and develop a sense of meeting equity, regardless of employee location. However, the join-from-anywhere workplace creates challenges. Although remote participants require the same experience as their on-premise colleagues, ensuring their contributions are valued equally, they don’t always achieve parity.
The latest iterations of wireless standards, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G, are going some way to redress the balance, significantly improving bandwidth and latency over past versions. The three most significant impacts of 5G and Wi-Fi 6/ Wi-Fi 6E on the commercial wireless audio market are faster speed and the ability to move much more data; improved responsiveness due to lower latency; and a greater ability to connect multiple, varied devices.
At the same time, end users expect corporate devices to work straight out of the box, connecting to devices around the office with the same effortless experience provided by consumer devices. With all this opportunity and expectation, Futuresource expects sweeping changes to impact on enterprise AV uses cases. And although integrating wireless connections with displays is well-established, especially in the interactive panel sector, vendors will be able to tap into this as a key area for extended growth, along with a renewed focus on cameras and collaboration tools.