Day two starts with a bang! The booth sees some august footfall as several representatives of educational ministries from progressive countries visit the
Many distributor companies from UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, China, Mexico and Brazil are also dotting the Cybernetyx premises. While some of these agents express their interest exclusively in the distributorship of Spark and Galileo devices, several of them propose to position Spark devices in substantial tenders which promise to reach several thousand of classrooms back in their respective countries. The Cybernetyx team win the confidence of these visitors with the assurance of how the company is a touchstone in AI powered educational solutions.
With the experience of 135000+ product deployments in classrooms all over the world and the success stories of projects like Gyankunj and Raj in India, during which the flagship product of Cybernetyx, EyeRIS were deployed in more than 10000 classrooms, in their kitty, the team impresses everyone who are present in the booth.
Several visitors from day 1, as self-assigned evangelists, bring more people to the E-186 booth and the team continues to enthral the new attendees with the demos of the ground-breaking technology. This kind of appreciation for the products and the company’s ethics seems to be the best kind of feedback. Spark and Galileo products continues capturing a lot of attention due to the #onedeviceclassroom concept. The rich feature set and ability of Spark devices to subsume and replicate the functionality of 8-10 different devices in a classroom attracts everyone. Also, the attractive price point makes them value this feature very much. This brings them savings, both in cost and time.
Several educators and IT leaders show interest in our simple and subscription-free local collaboration option where upto 64 devices can simultaneously contribute to the single canvas. They claim that till now they have been using Apple TV and iPads to mirror screens. Soon after the demonstration they agree that what they’ve been experiencing all this while was not #truecollaboration. Now they gauge and feel the need of why every student in the class must contribute on the single canvas in real-time.
Vision AI powered Sentiment Analysis and Automatic attendance via the 2D camera on our device or any webcam, is the star of the show. Press and media, with barrage of cameras, capture the equipment in action. Several news companies come and record the sentiment analysis product specifically. The journalists are interested in how secure this Cybernetyx feature is for students who’re in a face tracking and recognition scenario. The team explains how the technology does not track each student individually but only the anonymous patterns. It also gives insights about what percentage of teachers keep the class fully engaged, happy or disengaged and such. These insights clarify how the Vision AI does not aim or intend a ‘big brother’ type of surveillance system but serve the purpose of performance analysis.
Meanwhile, einsOS keeps garnering attention just like it did on day 1. Visitors express their awe on witnessing its single sign-on capability and its seamless coupling of hardware & software. Usually, they have to buy an LMS solution separately and plug it in somehow with their existing hardware. No company in in BETT has been seen providing an integrated hardware and software solution, as efficient as that of Cybernetyx, yet.
‘Completing the education loop’ is one of the best appreciative comments the team received during a demonstration with an educator who said that Cybernetyx’s solutions stand out because using data and analytics, the company completes the loop for the educational cycle. Unlike solutions which focus on half the loop, by providing only instruction material and tools for teaching, Cybernetyx completes the loop by providing tools to gauge the quality of instruction mentored in class. Currently a teacher must wait a few hours, days or even months to know if a topic which was taught was well received by the students or not, when the test or exam results come out. But with analytical solutions from Cybernetyx, progress charts make the process much easier to get ‘continuous’ online feedback, even while your lecture, to gauge the effectiveness of the teaching.
Day two went better than planned. Let’s see what’s in store for tomorrow!
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