Crestron Offers Flex B100 Series Smart Soundbar with Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Functionality
Press Release Summary:
The Flex B100 Series Smart Soundbar uses beam-forming microphone array that picks up voices in larger spaces. The Huddly IQ™ video conferencing camera of the soundbar offers 4K digital auto-zoom, undistorted ultra-wide viewing angle and people counting. It enables user to deploy, manage, monitor and resolve technical issues remotely via XiO Cloud™ platform.
Original Press Release:
New Crestron Flex B100 Series Smart Soundbar Solution Delivers Ultimate Unified Communications & Collaboration Experience in Conference Spaces
Front of room solution provides native Microsoft Teams™ and Skype® for Business software functionality in a stunning practical design with world-class audio and video quality
Rockleigh, NJ – September 25, 2018 – Crestron, a global leader in control and automation technology for the modern workplace, will welcome guests to booth #1707 at Microsoft Ignite® 2018 event in Orlando, FL, Sept. 24-27, to see the world debut of the Crestron Flex B100 Series, a front of room wall-mount UC smart soundbar that provides native Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business functionality in a stunning, practical design with world-class audio and video quality, plus unprecedented flexibility to transform traditional, more complicated meeting spaces into easy-to-use spaces free of table clutter. Crestron Flex solutions deliver a simple, consistent user experience in all the places people work, from individual workstations to boardrooms.
The ultimate in conference room flexibility
With powerful built-in speakers, the Crestron Flex B100 Series fills the largest meeting spaces with crystal-clear audio. Conversely, its beam-forming microphone array picks up voices in the furthest reaches of the largest spaces. The embedded Huddly IQ™ video conferencing camera provides cutting-edge technology, developed in partnership with Intel, that includes 4K digital auto-zoom, an undistorted ultra-wide viewing angle of all videoconference call participants, people counting, and lifelike image quality to deliver nothing less than the best possible video conferencing experience. The Crestron Flex B100 Series is as simple to set up as it is to use, with no configuration required.
“The Crestron Flex Smart Soundbar delivers native Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business functionality aimed at creating a better meeting and collaboration experience for every room in a company’s office space – from small huddle rooms to executive board rooms,” said Ted Colton, Vice President of Unified Communications at Crestron. “Our goal with our new Flex Unified Communication and Collaboration series is to make working and using technology a seamless experience, and not an additional hindrance for employees or a company’s IT department.”
Centralized deployment and management
The Crestron Flex B100 Series benefit from zero-touch deployment via the Crestron XiO Cloud™ platform. With Crestron XiO Cloud, organizations can easily deploy, manage, monitor, and evolve thousands of Crestron Flex devices from a single dashboard, resolve technical issues remotely, and gather actionable space and device usage data, all without the need for programming. Organizations are seeing up to 90% reductions in installation time, improvements in device uptime, and less strain on support resources.
Learn more
Visit Crestron booth #1707 at Microsoft Ignite 2018, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, Sept. 24-27 for a live demonstration of the Crestron Flex B100 Series, along with the complete Crestron Flex product line. Or visit Crestron.com/flex for more information.
About Crestron
At Crestron we build the technology that integrates technology. Our automation and control solutions for homes and buildings let people control entire environments with the push of a button, integrating systems such as AV, lighting, shading, security, BMS and HVAC to provide greater comfort, convenience and security. All of our products are designed and built to work together as a complete system, enabling you to monitor, manage and control everything from one platform.
Our products are backed by more than 90 fully-staffed offices that provide 24 x 7 x 365 sales, technical, and training support across the globe. In addition to its World Headquarters in Rockleigh, New Jersey, Crestron has sales and support offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Discover Crestron by visiting www.crestron.com.
Contact: Ron Epstein
Crestron Electronics, Inc.
Phone: (201) 564-6047
repstein@crestron.com