Lightware – Sennheiser Integration
Lightware and Sennheiser joined forces to develop a highly efficient and immersive audio-visual solution to leverage user experience in meeting rooms.
Enhanced Hybrid Meeting Solutions
The collaboration between Lightware and Sennheiser enhances hybrid meeting room setups by integrating Sennheiser's audio technology with Lightware's AV solutions. This allows for better audio quality, seamless room control, and efficient management in unified communications.
Lightware’s Taurus hybrid matrix switchers with LARA software expand inputs, enable USB host switching, charging, and Ethernet without disrupting calls. Users can access room peripherals and share screens from BYOD laptops smoothly during MTR calls.
Features
Control PTZ Cameras using VISCA Protocol
It helps visually track and focus on the meeting participant who is actually speaking
More Personal and Engaging Experience
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When integrated with Taurus UCX, running LARA software, this powerful solution will process the information from the Sennheiser Ceiling microphone and control a PTZ camera to visually track and focus on the meeting participant who is actually speaking. A significant advantage lies in its customization, eschewing a one-box solution (encompassing camera, microphone, and speaker).
As a result, in high-quality meeting rooms it can efficiently accommodate hybrid meetings.
Enhanced Remote Meeting Technology
The technology will ensure that remote meeting participants can clearly see and hear who is speaking at any given moment. It will also feature built-in intelligence to detect multiple speakers and adapt camera focus accordingly.
In instances of silence, it also provides a comprehensive view of the room – a capability essential for holding successful meetings in small to medium meeting rooms where participants also attend remotely.
Collaborative Solutions
As a result, remote participants in meetings held in rooms designed for eight or more people will enjoy a more personal and engaging experience, as they can clearly see and hear on-site colleagues.
In addition, organisations seeking to standardise this solution globally can rely on the cooperation between Lightware and Sennheiser, while AV professionals, including integrators and consultants, can implement a cutting-edge technology solution.
Experience the Sennheiser Difference with Lightware Devices
The solution works with Sennheiser TCC2 and Lightware Taurus UCX, running LARA. It can control any camera using VISCA protocol.*
Using the information from the TCC2, LARA identifies the direction of the voice source, processes this information by comparing it to presets, and converts it to a command, controlling the PTZ camera. The result is that the camera turns to the relevant direction and focuses to the speaker.
*The performance may be different as various cameras implement VISCA protocol as full-featured or just a subset.
Video Conferencing with PTZ Camera Integration
Thanks to the recent collaboration between Lightware and Sennheiser, we've introduced an exciting new feature: instead of supporting just a PTZ camera, as in our previous setup, we now have the capability to manage another fixed camera simultaneously.
This advancement brings new possibilities, especially for larger meeting rooms and boardrooms. With this camera system, one camera can follow and focus on the person speaking, guided by information from the microphone through LARA control. The second camera provides a fixed view of all the people present in the room.
As a result, during video calls, viewers can now enjoy a more comprehensive perspective. They can see both the entire meeting room and the current speaker, as determined by the microphone's input.
Lightware Advanced Room Automation simplifies AV interactions
LARA est une solution logicielle facile d’utilisation qui simplifie le contrôle audiovisuel des équipements audiovisuels sans nécessiter de compétences complexes en programmation, tout en permettant aux programmeurs expérimentés de créer des modules personnalisés. Elle fonctionne sur les Taurus UCX et est facilement configurable via un navigateur web, permettant ainsi aux utilisateurs des salles de réunion d’accéder aux commandes via un seul écran tactile.
Teams-only Mode
The Teams PC (HP Poly) is connected to the HCM40 with 2× DP-to-HDMI cables and accepts 2×4K60 signals. The HCM40 forwards these to the left and the right display via the 2× HDMI-HDMI cables.
The USB Camera Bar (along with the keyboard and mouse) is switched to the Teams PC (HP Poly) by the HCM40's built-in USB Hub and USB Host Switch.
Bring Your Own Meeting Mode
The unique capability of the HCM40 is that it can accept 2×4K60 extended desktops from the Windows or Mac (!) laptop over a single USB-C cable, while also allowing the built-in display of the laptop to function as the 3rd desktop. The HCM40 then separates the 2× incoming signals and sends them to the left and right displays via their respective HDMI connections.
In this BYOD scenario the laptop is running the call so the HCM40 switches the USB Camera Bar + keyboard + mouse to the laptop so they can be utilized in the Teams / Zoom / Google Meet / Webex conference.
Teams Ingest Mode
The Teams PC (HP Poly) is running the Teams meeting, driving the 2× displays via the 2× DP-to-HDMI connections, while the laptop is connected to the USB-C cable (now forced by the HCM40 to send only 1× extended or mirrored desktop signal). The laptop's signal is forwarded to the Ingest port of the Teams PC so that the presentation can be shown on one of the local displays and shared with the remote participants of the conference call.
Even though the laptop is connected, the call is still run by the Teams PC (HP Poly) so the Camera bar + keyboard + mouse remain connected to it. The USB-C cable is only used to accept the video signal from the laptop.
