Bosch and Extron integrate their conference and touch panel systems for meeting rooms

The integration of touch panels Extron with the conference and debate system Bosch Dicentis allows you to control all the critical functions of a meeting through one device, including video projectors, sistemas de audio e iluminación.

To facilitate overall conference management and provide a new level of visibility into the status of all connected devices in a meeting room, Extron y Bosch have integrated their touch panel and conference and discussion systems, respectively, what allows, among other functions, show meeting information, as delegate names, seat position, who has the word,…

Extron is one of the first touch monitor manufacturers to start working with the product portfolio Of those who say de Bosch. Your new touch monitors and control processors are now fully compatible with this conference system, so system integrators can offer solutions that combine both to easily customize them according to the needs of their clients..

For this, Extron has created an interface based on the version 3.2 de Bosch, safer, scalable and platform independent JSON based (JavaScript object notation) y socket web. System enables easy connectivity with third-party touch panel control systems and video switchers, that operates independently from the computer's operating system.

“By integrating third-party control panels, Dicentis helps meeting planners control all critical functions through one device, including video projectors, audio systems and lighting controls - explains Sjack Schellekens, Product Manager at Bosch Building Technologies-. All of this makes it easier to manage and provides a new level of visibility into the status of all connected devices.”.

As this manager adds, “The integration of touch panels from external manufacturers is part of the evolution of the Dicentis conference system, what, in this way, “It offers the greatest possible flexibility and allows a gradual integration of third-party providers that results in a successful solution in the future”.

Thanks to having the assistance of up to one hundred languages, Dicentis “is the new standard that covers multiple needs in the field of conferences: discussion management, Simultaneous interpretation and language selection, voting, multimedia functions, live video streaming, Internet access, document viewing, etc”, states.

The system is based on the Omnio IP architecture, is compatible with Dante and feeding is done through Ethernet (PoE) to facilitate quick and easy integration of third-party systems.