Product Review
One challenge when equipping a conference room for meaningful collaboration is the tedious job of interconnecting cameras, microphones, displays and computers.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a single device deliver all these functions? Yealink has achieved this goal with its MeetingBoard series, bringing even more simplicity and ease of use to the modern conference room.
Imagine a large, elegant 4K flat-screen display on a mobile stand with wheels. Imagine that this display has a built-in 4K camera, 16 beamforming microphone arrays and six speakers capable of high-fidelity stereo sound.
Now picture this device with a highly sensitive touch screen that allows finger navigation, pen writing, ink-to-shape and other advanced screen manipulation features. Finally, picture all this contained within a single device that plugs into a wall socket.
This was the vision of Yealink’s MeetingBoard series of products. The MeetingBoard has been designed with simplicity and elegance in mind. It is completely encased in metal, enhancing its appeal while extending its service life.
It can be placed on a movable floor stand or a wall mount, making it ideal for executive offices, huddle rooms, creative spaces, conference rooms and training spaces.
The MeetingBoard comes in two sizes and delivers the same highly specialized feature set, no matter which one you choose. The MeetingBoard65 is a large 65-inch touchscreen display for small- to medium-sized conference and collaboration rooms. For a more spacious collaboration experience, the MeetingBoard86 covers more real estate with an 86-inch touchscreen display.
The MeetingBoard comes with a built-in 4K camera that delivers intelligent AI features, including the following:
The PiP feature and many other new features, such as Smart Gallery and Multi Framing, will be coming soon via a firmware upgrade.
The MeetingBoard has sophisticated audio capabilities made possible in part by a dedicated audio digital signal processor (DSP) enhanced with artificial intelligence capabilities. This AI DSP coordinates 16 built-in beamforming microphone arrays that can capture crystal-clear audio from participants sitting up to 25 feet away, covering an effective area of over 640 square feet.
AI dramatically improves the audio experience by delivering enhanced AI-enabled noise cancellation and reverberation suppression.
With four full-range and two tweeter stereo speakers, you’ll get the best quality audio for voice and media playing locally or over the network.
The MeetingBoard’s bright and colorful display also provides a large surface through which to interact with applications, presentations and remote participants. This intelligent collaboration whiteboard allows users to use finger navigation, pen tip writing, and tail-end erasing while providing ink-to-shape capabilities and notetaking with four levels of digital ink recognition.
The large surface areas of both the 65-inch and 86-inch versions offer a unique experience to users with an exceptional level of freedom to share information by drawing and writing on the screen. The cloud applications allow all participants, even remote ones, to join in and add their written contributions on the same drawing surface.
If these capabilities are still not enough to meet your collaboration needs, the MeetingBoard is fully compatible with a range of devices that further enhance its functionality. These include:
In addition, the MeetingBoard is extensible: You can combine two MeetingBoards into a single long display, allowing you to see your remote participants on one display while interacting with presentations, whiteboards, and other shared applications on the other.
MeetingBoard devices use the continually upgraded Android 10 operating system running on a Qualcomm Octa-core Snapdragon 845 chipset. They have been certified for use with Microsoft Teams and various other collaboration platforms.
The MeetingBoard65 was recognized for its design and comfort with a 2022 Reddot award.
The most significant features of both these devices include the following:
The Yealink MeetingBoard series of collaboration end devices delivers everything you need for even the most demanding collaboration room environments. It not only simplifies video conferencing but also delivers an immersive remote collaboration experience.
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