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Case file
Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms and Cisco Webex-certified meeting rooms, with auto-tracking cameras, ceiling-array microphones and one-touch room controllers.
/ The discipline, in detail
How we approach conference room av.
A meeting room either starts in twenty seconds or in five minutes. There is no middle ground. We design and certify each room — small huddle, mid-size collaboration, large boardroom — to a Microsoft, Zoom or Cisco hardware list that joins meetings without a laptop in the room. Auto-tracking cameras frame the speaker, ceiling-array microphones lift voices without lapel mics, and the controller carries one button labelled the actual name of the meeting.
We commission with a written acceptance test — every input, every camera angle, every microphone zone — and we hand the room over with a cheat-sheet so the next user is productive without training.
On record
Every conference room av engagement is documented end-to-end — design, programming, commissioning, calibration — and handed over with the files our successors would need if we were never to return.
/ Where we deploy this
Active across 5 sectors.
Conference Room AV is rarely a standalone brief — it sits inside a wider sector practice with its own codes, expectations and operating rhythm.
/ Sister services
The rest of av.
A serious brief usually crosses two or three of these. Read across the discipline — we deliver them as one contract.
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Home Theatre
Reference cinema, in your living room.
Custom-engineered private cinemas — projector, processor, screen, seating and acoustics designed to a single sweet-spot, certified to THX or Dolby Atmos.0 - 02
Multi-Room Audio
One song. Every room. Or six different ones.
Whole-home audio on Yamaha, Sonance and BluOS — invisible in-ceiling speakers, hidden subs, room-corrected and zone-routed.1 - 03
Acoustic Solutions
Rooms that sound the way they look.
Acoustic design and treatment for cinemas, auditoriums, recording studios, places of worship and conference halls — engineered absorbers, diffusers, bass traps and ceiling clouds.2 - 04
Video Walls
Pixels at the scale of architecture.
Direct-view LED, fine-pitch LCD and rear-projection video walls for command centres, lobbies, broadcast studios, control rooms and event venues.3 - 05
Smart Classrooms
Every student. Every word. Every time.
Interactive flat-panels, lecture-capture, voice-lift and learning-management integrations — engineered to NCERT, NEP-2020 and university lab specifications.4 - 06
LED Panels & Projectors
The right pixels for the room.
Direct-view LED, OLED, microLED and laser projection — selected to the room's lux, throw, sightline and content.5 - 07
Professional Audio & PA Systems
Intelligible, every seat in the house.
Public address, voice-evacuation and concert-grade audio for auditoriums, places of worship, stadia, transit hubs and event venues.6 - 08
Auditoriums & Boardrooms
Rooms that begin on time.
Turnkey auditorium, boardroom, training-room and conference-room AV — display, audio, control, video-conferencing and lighting integrated to a single touch.7 - 09
Digital Conferencing & Voting Systems
Sittings, voting, interpretation — one system, every seat.
Parliamentary-grade digital conferencing for legislative chambers, council halls and corporate boardrooms — mic management, electronic voting, 8-channel interpretation, camera control and chamber recording, integrated through Bosch DCN, Dicentis and Integrus.8 - 10
Recording Studios & Nightlife
Rooms tuned to the recording.
Recording studio design, post-production suites, broadcast booths and nightlife audio — acoustic isolation, monitoring, console integration and DJ infrastructure.9 - 11
Stage Lighting
Light that performs.
Theatre, concert, event and place-of-worship stage lighting — moving heads, washes, profiles, pixel-mapped LED and DMX/Art-Net control.10 - 13
Hospitality Venue AV
From the banquet stage to the last bar stool.
Hospitality venue AV — banquet hall, ballroom and conference AV, restaurant and bar zone audio, and club-grade nightlife systems with JBL Professional, K-array and Kgear, engineered for hotels, resorts and standalone venues.11
Engineering toolkit
Tools to scope this work
Calculators and reference checkers we use ourselves to sense-check the engineering before any drawings change hands.
- AV · LED
LED Wall Size Calculator
Direct-view LED wall sizing across Samsung, LG MAGNIT, Leyard, Absen, Unilumin, Panasonic, Delta, Christie and Barco. Cabinet count, native resolution, brightness adequacy, power and weight — with pitch-vs-distance honesty and camera-refresh flags. Sources cited per model.
9 brands · pitch-awareOpen - AV · Audio · Coverage
Speaker Coverage Planner
Engineering-grade speaker coverage and SPL planner across K-array, KGEAR, JBL Professional, d&b audiotechnik, L-Acoustics, Fonestar and Ecler. Predicts SPL at listener distance, coverage radius on the -6 dB dispersion axis and quantity needed for the room. Sources cited.
7 brands · SPL predictionOpen - AV · Selector
Boardroom Solution Selector
Pick the room, how it is used and the platforms in play, and see a broad meeting-room direction with what to share. A planning aid — not a final design, model list, quantity or budget.
Advisory · directionOpen
/ Engineering concepts
Related engineering concepts
Concept
AV-over-IP Distribution
Audio-visual signal distribution over a standard IP network. Reduces matrix-switcher cost, scales to large routing, and integrates cleanly with the building IT layer. Most premium boardrooms, video walls and houses of worship are now AV-over-IP.
Concept
HDBaseT Distribution
Single-cable AV distribution standard. Sends uncompressed video, audio, ethernet, control and PoE up to 100 m on Cat6 — workhorse format for boardrooms, classrooms and most commercial AV.
Concept
Corporate Office Archetype
Multi-floor corporate fit-out — boardroom AV, addressable fire-alarm with PA voice-evac, access control, BMS, Wi-Fi 7 backbone and structured cabling on Cat6A as a single coordinated scope.
Concept
Cat6A Structured Cabling
Augmented Category 6 structured cabling — 10 Gbps over the full 100 m channel, rated for 25 years of service. The default for any new commercial or premium-residential cabling layer.
/ Used alongside
Commonly deployed alongside
Service
Auditoriums & Boardrooms
Rooms that begin on time.
Sector
Hospitality
Guest experience, engineered.
Sector
Commercial & Corporate
Workplaces that begin meetings on time.
Service
Video Walls
Pixels at the scale of architecture.
Sector
Education & Institutions
Schools, colleges and universities.
Service
Professional Audio & PA Systems
Intelligible, every seat in the house.
/ Plan it right
Conference Room AV — getting the brief right.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Buying the displays and codec before deciding the platform (Teams, Zoom, Webex), so the room never reaches single-touch join.
- Specifying table microphones for a room whose layout and finishes call for ceiling arrays — or the reverse.
- Ignoring acoustics and HVAC noise, so a certified hardware kit still produces meetings the far end cannot hear.
- Leaving containment, power and network drops for the AV wall and table until after interiors close.
- Skipping the written acceptance test, so 'the room works' is an opinion instead of a commissioning record.
What to share before a quotation
- Room dimensions, ceiling height and the finishes planned or existing.
- Seat count, table layout and how the room is actually used (VC share, presentation, hybrid town halls).
- The collaboration platform the organisation standardises on.
- Network: which VLAN the room lives on and who manages it.
- Whether this is one room or a standard to roll out across several.
/ Frequently asked
Conference Room AV — what buyers ask first.
Microsoft Teams Room or Zoom Room?
Choose Microsoft Teams Rooms for Microsoft 365 organisations and Zoom Rooms where Zoom is already standard — single-touch join and IT manageability are the difference. Microsoft 365 means Teams Rooms is the right answer. — single-touch join, calendar integration, IT manageability via Pro licences. Zoom Rooms is best where the organisation already standardises on Zoom for client calls. We deploy both.
What does a Microsoft Teams Rooms certified configuration require?
A certified compute platform (Logitech Tap, Lenovo ThinkSmart, AMX), a certified camera and microphone bar (Poly, Yealink, Logitech, Bose, Sennheiser, Shure) and a certified controller. Microsoft maintains a published compatibility matrix; we deploy from that matrix to ensure single-touch join works reliably.
How do you handle Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) calls in the same room?
Through a BYOD-mode switch on the room controller — pressing it routes USB audio and HDMI from a guest laptop through the room's microphones, speakers and display, while the certified compute platform releases control. This is the standard request from law firms and consulting practices and we configure it as default.
Ceiling-array microphones or table microphones?
Ceiling-array (Sennheiser TeamConnect, Shure MXA) is the right answer for any room where the table layout is not fixed, where multiple participants need clear pickup, and where keeping the table itself uncluttered matters. Table microphones (Sennheiser SpeechLine, boundary mics) remain valid for fixed-layout boardrooms with formal protocol.
How does AI auto-framing work and is it reliable?
Modern conference cameras (Poly Studio, Logitech Rally, AMX Pod) use computer-vision to detect speakers and auto-frame the active group. In our experience reliability is 90%+ for groups of 4–8; below that count it can over-zoom, above 12 it sometimes misses the speaker. We tune sensitivity per room.
What's the AMC scope for a corporate boardroom?
Quarterly preventive checks (firmware, microphone calibration, video alignment, software-licence renewal), annual audio re-tune, contracted live-meeting escalation path, spare-parts pool for the room's exact equipment. The AMC is scoped to the room and priced in writing after review.
· Begin
Begin a
conference room av
brief.
Tell us about the building, the timeline, and what success looks like a year after handover. We will reply within two working days with a written response, not a sales pitch.