A recent audio upgrade for the boardroom at the Building Industry Association (BIA) of San Diego County saw integration firm Shultz AV select and install Yamaha Unified Communications (UC) ADECIA microphones, loudspeakers and more to help resolve the poor audio quality of the former system.
“ADECIA completely changed the whole meeting dynamic,” states Glenn Shultz, CEO of Shultz AV. “Now, whoever is speaking is heard clearly on both ends — those joining in-person and those joining remotely.”
The boardroom’s former conferencing system was comprised of outdated cameras and audio piping in from phone lines. The audio setup led to a myriad of issues, including all in-person participants crowding around one speakerphone, people talking over each other, remote participants unable to hear in-person participants due to the distance from the phone line to the monitor (and the sheer length of the room), and failed projection of remote participants.
The ADECIA platform has helped resolve these issues. The BIA upgrade includes an RM-CG ceiling microphone, an RM-CR signal processor, a network switch, two loudspeakers, and two RM-TT tabletop microphones. Though the room fits up to 40 people, only one ceiling microphone is needed to amplify all voices. The two loudspeakers are designed and deployed to provide equally distributed sound across the long conference space. The two RM-TT tabletop microphones offer easy-to-reach mute buttons — because meetings can sometimes involve side conversations and private comments spoken by participants in the room, tabletop mics are a convenient option.
“Audio is the most essential part of any meeting, and it should never come at a cost to the room environment or the location of the participants,” says Holger Stoltze, Ph.D., senior director of technical sales and marketing, Yamaha UC. “ADECIA was built to streamline the conferencing installation experience and ensure that every person is confidently relayed and heard. BIA is an excellent application example of ADECIA’s features and benefits.”
