COVID – 19 is now officially a pandemic
At the time of writing of this piece, there have been more than 1,60,000 confirmed cases of COVID – 19 across the globe while approximately 6,000 deaths have been reported from the disease. As the number of new cases is increasing exponentially, almost doubling every four days, companies are strongly advising all its employees worldwide to work from remote locations and collaborate with their teams via video conferencing and other collaboration tools. These mandates of maintaining social distancing and restricted traveling while remaining connected via the internet have put immense pressure on IT departments of every company, showing the cracks in their foundation.
Are Organizations ready to handle this?
Most of the organizations especially small and medium-sized ones think that they have the tools required for their employees to work from home seamlessly but when COVID – 19 has knocked on their premises, they are scrambling to meet the demands of their remote employees.
However, there is always a silver lining to tackle remote work policy and this pandemic is a wake-up call. Even if you don’t have everything in place right now to implement a fully functional work from home policy, consider it the right time to make optimizations and embrace collaborative tools.
Collaboration Tools: Comes to Rescue
With ‘Communication is Key’, perhaps, the most important thing in the organization is to keep every line of communication wide open so that employees, customers and even leadership teams should keep communicating, making sure no one feels isolated. A tool that encourages your IT and non-IT staff to use without any hassle, for collaboration, video conferencing, and document sharing, even when internet access may be limited.
Striving to protect the health and well-being of our employees, partners, distributors, and community as a whole in which we operate, along with helping people stay productive at work, Cybernetyx makes sure employees are working without sacrificing collaboration and productivity through its Perceptual AI Devices for Collaboration.
Thinker Connect: Collaborate and Stay Productive
Thinker Connect is a retrofit device that fits on any standard display panel /monitor and converts it into a touch screen enabling interactive, engaging and effective virtual meetings.
It allows you to connect with all the participants enable video conferencing, co-annotate on documents in real-time and just fire up the brainstorming session, thanks to the integrated design with built-in camera and microphone array.
If you are just looking to add video conferencing, then Thinker View is the perfect device with ultra-wide camera and beamforming mic array. The 1080p Camera with ultra-wide angle that delivers an immersive video in the meeting room, marking everyone’s presence with UHD video. The beamforming mic array has Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and Direction of Arrival (DOA) feature that focuses the microphone directly on the speaker and suppresses the background noise with Full-duplex Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC). So, don’t worry about the background noise.
Cybernetyx intelligent video collaboration devices are highly compatible with major collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Hangout, Slack and more.
Cybernetyx offers many devices for bringing touch interactivity, collaboration and conferencing. If you need to meet any specific purpose in your organization, we recommend you use specialized solutions. With Cybernetyx products, reassure your employees can stay productive while working remotely.
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