Understanding A/V integration

Simply put, a/v integration accounts for the combination of sound and visual equipment to get a better viewing and listening experience during a meeting. Various products are used to achieve the best communication for large meetings. Some products used to combine audio and visual elements are monitors, cameras, control systems, customer user interfaces, projectors and more. Each of these elements offers a different service that, when brought together, creates the perfect mix of sound and vision.

Why it’s needed

As companies becomes more and more global oriented it is more common that they have many different sections spreed out on different geographical position. Despite these big differences, the business still needs to get done, and things like videoconferencing, pre-recorded videos, audio calls and more can help things run smoothly even when members aren’t in the same spot.

What distinguishes a genuine video system from Skype or Teams?

The added value of a fixed-install/static videoconferencing system is that you remove the vulnerability of being dependent on the individual user’s computer or phone to connect to the meeting. Video systems also have the advantage and ability to optimize and compress the data according to the conditions available on the current network.

Can different videoconferencing systems interact?

In the past many video services couldn’t call and interact with each other. Today’s solutions can integrate with each other to a much greater scale. In many cases, these are seamless integrations like Outlook and Teams. You can call  on other brewing solutions, You can always invite customers/users through a computer and they can connect in every way.

The design for hittalån.se was made through a video meeting. In this harder “corona times”, the design team and owners of the site couldn’t meet in in reel life do to restrictions. So they chosed to conduct the dialogue through video instead of only use mail to communicate.