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Bring Your Teams Together with High-End AV Solutions in Place

Creating spaces for meetings and collaboration among your employees doesn’t have to be a hassle. No matter the size of your Dallas, TX office building, you can bring the right video conferencing solutions to any room and set up a space dedicated to productivity and efficiency.

DeVance Electronic Lifestyle brings high-end technologies together to bridge the gap between your remote and in-office employees, ensuring everyone stays connected throughout the workday. 

Want to learn more about upgrading your AV equipment and elevating your conference room design and setup with the proper tools? Keep reading below, and keep daily operations on track! 

Make the Most of Every Meeting & Presentation!

An unorganized or scattered meeting with glitching technologies can leave everyone in the room or on the other side of the screen feeling lost or impatient. You deserve the highest quality when it comes to your video conferencing systems and commercial solutions in your Dallas, TX, company’s boardrooms.

And with top-notch conference room technology from Crestron, you never have to worry about frozen screens, garbled audio, or failing technologies again. Keep reading below to find out more about Crestron Flex and what it can bring to your upcoming meetings.

A Professional Installation Makes All the Difference

When it comes to a seamless and productive workday, communication is key. No matter how big or small it is, your Dallas, TX business more than likely needs tools to help your employees communicate and collaborate on a daily basis.

A commercial audio video installation is a must for your whole building. The benefits are endless, and the reliability and top-quality of your system make for a worthy investment. But when it comes to a project of this size and importance, you don’t want to depend on disparate components and products that compromise your setup: You want one comprehensive, intuitive system.

Work with a team of professionals you can trust! DeVance Electronic Lifestyle is here to make the entire process – from installation to daily use -- a breeze for you and everyone on your team. Find out more about commercial AV and our installation services by reading on below.

SOUND MASKING SYSTEMS HELP IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY, PROTECT PRIVACY, AND INCREASE EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING.

The modern workspace, with its open floor plan, is a dynamic and engaging environment. Built to foster impromptu meetings and connections, it can be a highly advantageous configuration. Teams collaborate better, discuss issues more often, and solve complex problems more readily.

Innovative firms value this high-energy atmosphere to generate new ideas and encourage “cross-pollination” between teams. While the lack of walls, cubicles, and traditional offices makes for a more energetic working environment, it does come with some downsides.

Those productive conversations for a team can often become a distraction or annoyance to those around them. In some cases, such as in medical or legal offices, serious privacy issues arise. Easily installed sound masking systems improve focus, productivity, and privacy in your Dallas, TX, commercial space.

Collaborate & Communicate More Easily With Coworkers

It’s often miscommunication that can lead to chaos at any type of business. No matter the size of your Dallas, TX company, you need specific spaces designed to foster teamwork and collaboration. Boardrooms and conference rooms are great for larger meetings or presentations – but what about those gatherings that require smaller, more intimate settings?

Huddle rooms are here to fulfill this need. Want to find out how these spaces are designed to make working with fewer colleagues in one room a breeze? Check out what goes into this smart setup below.

Crestron Mercury Simplifies Every Conference Room Meeting

Communicating with everyone in your Dallas, TX company – including those in-office and working remotely – can be a bit complicated. No matter if you’re hosting a huge presentation or providing training in an important meeting, ensuring that your employees get the information they need is a top priority for you. 

That’s why commercial AV for your conference room setups is a must. And our team at DeVance Electronic Lifestyle highly recommends a Crestron Mercury system. In this blog, we’ll dive into how it can benefit your business today.

Want to find out more? Keep reading on below.

In 1959, Joel Spira invented the rotary dimmer switch, Lutron’s initial claim to fame. Lutron’s popularity soared through consequent decades as they created customized lighting automation systems, motorized shades and controls for homes and businesses, perfecting their product offering along the way. Now one of the most significant names in the smart home industry, they’re innovating LED lighting, tunable lighting and motorized shades for Dallas, TX, offices like yours.

But with the other automated lighting systems out there, why do we consistently choose Lutron for business applications? You’ll discover a few of those reasons below!

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Streamlined Connection

Lutron uses custom repeaters that employ radio frequency technology to communicate, ensuring the smoothest connection and minimal network interference. This system, called Clear Connect RF, means that you never have to compromise the bandwidth needs of your AV system with your lighting and shading requirements, which pays off if you’re controlling many devices throughout a large, tech-heavy office. And whether you have two lights or two hundred, you can control dimming and color temperature, monitor energy usage or power down your whole office from anywhere by using your Lutron app.

Human-Centric Setup

Static lighting - illumination that doesn’t change temperature or brightness throughout the day - occupies most commercial centers: The American Society of Interior Design reports that 68 percent of employees complain about the lighting in their offices. We can blame this trend on the ubiquitous fluorescent light that raises many staff complaints - ranging from unshakable midday lethargy to early-morning jitters.

We recommend Lutron’s lighting control for businesses aiming to implement the lighting that humans need to thrive. Its brilliance and tone shift imperceptibly throughout the day but impact our productivity, alertness and well-being in noticeable ways. You might notice that your staff seems more focused and alert, even during that late-afternoon meeting.

If you had mentioned smart boardroom AV systems or HD video conferencing just a couple of decades ago, people would have seen the prospect as too futuristic to ever happen. Collaborating with stakeholders across the globe? Communicating with remote teams thousands of miles from your Dallas, TX, office?

Now, however, these notions feel commonplace, as modern offices demand the best AV tools and an ever-faster internet connection to piece all the components together. As we head into the new decade, don’t neglect to update your boardroom to suit your video-conferencing needs. Keep reading to see why it’s so vital to your profitability, employee satisfaction and more.

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The Future of Meetings

Automation and enhanced AV solutions speed up those once-daunting tasks, urging business owners to take more risks and optimize every meeting.

Meetings are no longer location-dependent, meaning owners can reduce expenses needed to fly contacts into their physical office. Similarly, you no longer must search for employees within 50 miles of the Dallas area: Find top talent from virtually anywhere. Not to mention, your in-house employees gain some flexibility to work from home if a need arises.

Right now, working from home is more common than ever before. Keeping up with your employees at home or across the globe is a key component to your company’s commercial automation now and for years down the road, providing your offices with incomparable flexibility and efficiency.

So how can you bring your whole Dallas, TX company together with video conferencing solutions that tie a bridge between all your employees? Zoom is the answer, and it’s growing more popular every day.

In this blog, we’ll dive into what Zoom setups in your conference rooms entail and how your entire business can benefit from one. Keep reading below to learn more!

SEE ALSO: A Closer Look at Microsoft Teams and Zoom

What Can Zoom Do?

What to close the gap between where all your employees are? Zoom makes it easy to host a multitude of video conferences a week, or even a day, with as many employees as you’d like – no matter where they are in the world.

Have meetings in your Dallas, TX, office been less productive or engaging than you would hope recently? Your audio might be to blame: Sound issues are one of the most distracting issues you can face while video conferencing, but we have a few solutions to try. Keep reading to see how to mitigate audio setbacks and engage your staff with the help from the DeVance Electronic Lifestyle team.

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Maximize Your Microphones

You want everyone on the call to hear your message, loudly and clearly, but you’ve probably experienced poorly installed incoming audio that sounds garbled, quiet or staticky. Figuring out exactly where to place your microphones often requires a professional audio-video integrator’s skills, so that’s where we come in.

Have you ever asked someone to speak up in the conference call, only to get louder volume with more distortion? When we perform video conferencing equipment installations, we place microphones close to the people speaking so that sound quality doesn’t depend on volume. Digital sound processors, or DSPs, can distinguish between people speaking and noise, while automatic gain control can fine-tune your sound so that your microphone balances both your louder and softer-spoken participants.

Also consider whether omnidirectional or directional microphones work best for you. Many people think omnidirectional microphones at first because they pick up sounds from multiple directions: This effect captures audio from people speaking all around the room. However, omnidirectional mics pick up ambient noise, too.  Directional microphones target the meeting participant close by, and many microphones include DSP processing capabilities to clarify incoming and outgoing audio alike.

In today’s offices, you see a complete transformation from the business scene of just ten years ago. Alongside less fluorescent lighting and fewer cubicles, another lasting trend we’ve noticed is the huddle room: According to recent market trends identified by Frost & Sullivan, huddle rooms are projected to replace almost 70% of all meeting rooms by 2022.

What is a huddle room, though? It’s too small to be called a conference room and too business-oriented to be a break room, so imagine, if you will, something in between. Maybe two or three employees want to spend half an hour rehearsing a presentation but don’t want to book a conference room. Or a peer leader wants to instruct an employee on a topic that needs a visual aid. In these instances and several others,  a huddle room proves a handy tool in your overall commercial audio video and automation setup. Why would your Dallas, TX, office need one, especially when you already have a few conference rooms? We’ll explain below.

SEE ALSO: 3 Commercial Audio Video Trends You Need to Know

A Welcome Break From an Open Office

The open office concept seemed to crop up in nearly every business last decade. According to a 2010 study by the International Facility Management Association, 68% of people worked in an office with either no walls or low walls–and the number has undoubtedly grown.

Regardless of the cons of the layout, which we’ll discuss below, owners continued to build them for their cost-efficiency and collaboration benefits. Some studies have noted that banishing the closed-door office has leveled the manager-employee playing field and made executives seem more approachable.