While there is light at the end of a long tunnel with the current pandemic, the past few months have brought a sea change in how people work, learn, and stay connected. Zoom has become a buzzword, and everyone from 1^st graders to senior citizens is becoming comfortable with videoconferencing as a way to communicate, as easily as they might use a phone.

Crestron, a worldwide leader in commercial automation and communication solutions, has a foot in both enterprise solutions and automation in high-end homes. Seeing this trend for video communication in the home, they set out to take conferencing out from individual devices and make it easy to use for a family or small group of people. In essence, they set out to bring the videoconference room into the living room. It's called Crestron HomeTime, and it brings a level of quality to videoconferencing to your home that used to require commercial equipment.

Keep reading to see how Elite Technology Solutions, your local Crestron dealer serving Clayton, MO, can bring business-class conferencing to your home.

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Upgrading the Home Conferencing Experience

Crestron is an expert in enterprise solutions for audio and video conferencing and distribution in offices and makes it easy to use those systems in conference rooms and meeting spaces. Businesses, schools, and organizations everywhere have increased their investment in Crestron systems to seamlessly integrate solutions like Zoom with conference room audio-video systems.

Crestron HomeTime is a solution to bring that same experience of high-quality audio and video to conferencing at home, with similar ease of use. For the camera, Crestron partnered with Logitech to integrate their high-quality MeetUp 4K camera (usually used in smaller business meeting rooms) with a home audio-video system to create an upgraded home solution. The MeetUp camera's 120-degree field of view can capture a whole family on a sofa, so no one has to hunch around a laptop or tablet. Similarly, a beamforming, full-duplex microphone transmits high-quality audio without annoying delays, echoes, or dropouts.

A Zoom Room at Home

In the past several months, Zoom Room solutions have become popular with businesses in Missouri and across the country. Business solutions like Crestron Mercury help transform a conference room into a Zoom Room, allowing for the use of external microphones, cameras, and sound within a Zoom conference to extend the meeting beyond an individual device. Crestron HomeTime aims to do the same in the home.

As a Crestron solution, your home can have the same ease of use from the boardroom in your living room. When integrated with Crestron home automation, a home conference can be started with the Zoom Room controller app with the touch of a button. For further convenience, the meeting can be launched with a touch on a custom programmed touchscreen that can automatically set the stage, adjusting lighting, sound volume, TV inputs, the temperature, and more to make the setting as natural and comfortable as watching a movie.

Liberate Your Meetings

Beyond having the whole family chat with Grandma with great sound and her face on the big TV screen, other interactions can happen while freeing your family from the confines of a desk. Imagine private music lessons with a big screen and quality audio, groups of kids collaborating in the same room with remote classmates or clubmates, and parent-teacher conferences become easier to hold remotely with everyone participating comfortably and safely.

Ready to upgrade to business-class conferencing at home with Crestron? Call us today at (636) 939-4474 or reach out on our contact page. We look forward to working with you!