Challenging room requirements

SMART products provide value added service opportunities in room control systems integration. To start with, the interactive touch of a SMART Board is only possible with an external light source, a video projector, a plasma or TFT display. Additionally, these can also run as videoconference screens. This in turn will require video and data integration functions. The more the collaboration needs the more complex a room installation can be.
 
The room provided in the picture above (more at SMART's web site) was designed to be an executive briefing room with full presentation and videoconferencing capabilities. It was designed to support document collaboration, interactive presentation and multipoint videoconferencing. As a result and besides the SMART Board, it was equipped with a dual high-resolution LCD rear-screen projection, matrix switching of both RGB and video with audio follow and small touch-panel controls.

In this example, the use of SMART Board interactive whiteboards in-wall mounted coupled with a built in videoconference camera, allows the users to simply touch the screen as part of the wall, and simply engage in computer supported videoconference. This really extends the concept of human-computer interaction, which was previously tied to a machine to the natural parts of a room, like an interactive in-wall screen.