businessinfomag.uk 16 MEETINGS magazine who may not be familiar with a site but also visitors who can interact with the map in numerous ways, from zooming in and out and exploring the layouts of different floors to using the search function to locate a specific desk, room, colleague or point of interest. Like Auto Book and Auto Release, Logitech View is compatible with other platforms. Enhanced analytics In addition to their room booking capabilities, these new tools provide IT teams with valuable insight into employees’ meeting habits that Prakash Arunkundrum, Chief Operating Officer and GM of Logitech for Business, says can help organisations optimise their investment in meeting room technology. He said: “Underutilised and over utilised rooms are bad news for the bottom line. Logitech Sync Insights gives you data analytics on space usage, occupancy and the use of video conferencing equipment during meetings so you can make smarter decisions about tech investments and space planning.” The Auto Book function is very useful in this regard, as it allows an organisation to capture all those unplanned, ad hoc meetings that would have been missed before and so gain a truer, more accurate record of meeting room usage. Logitech View, Auto Book and Auto Release are available with a Logitech Essential or Select service plan, priced at £154 and £307 per room, per year. www.logitech.com/business from green (free) to red (occupied); and Auto Release, which frees up rooms automatically when participants don’t show up or a meeting is cancelled. If this happens repeatedly, future meetings that might have been booked every week for years into the future can automatically be deleted from the calendar and on Tap Scheduler. Auto Release also registers when a meeting has finished early, allowing that room to be booked by someone else. With Auto Book and Auto Release, managers can specify the amount of time between sensing presence/ absence and making changes by amending settings in the Logitech Sync management portal. Logitech View These two features are complemented by a third new tool, Logitech View, which allows a colour-coded digital map of the office, showing real-time availability of meeting rooms, along with workstations, amenities and exits, to be displayed on large monitors or TV screens connected to a Logitech RoomMate appliance. Extending map display options to large touchscreen displays and kiosks in lobbies, cafeterias and hallways, as well as on Tap Scheduler panels and the Logitech Tune smartphone app, gives users the ability to book rooms directly on the map and use the wayfinding capability to find meeting rooms and colleagues more easily. This is not only useful for hybrid workers As more and more businesses mandate a return to the office, Logitech is enhancing the Logitech Room Booking solution announced in May with smart office tools designed to slash the amount of time office workers spend searching for meeting spaces – up to 30 minutes per day for 40% of employees, according to a Steelcase Workplace Survey*. Logitech Room Booking allows users to book a meeting room through their work calendar or directly on a Tap Scheduler touchscreen panel outside a meeting room. New capabilities announced this month exclusively for meeting rooms equipped with Logitech Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini all‑in‑one video collaboration devices make room booking even more seamless by minimising the impact of bad habits such as occupying meeting rooms without booking them first, remaining in rooms beyond the time reserved or booking a room and failing to show up (aka ghosting). Book and release Leveraging the AI sensor in cameras within Rally Bars, which can detect when a room is occupied (without identifying people or storing any facial images), has enabled Logitech to introduce two new tools designed to streamline the process of reserving and freeing up meeting spaces – not just for Logitech Room Meeting but for all booking platforms, including Appspace, Envoy, Microsoft Teams, RICOH Spaces, Robin, Zoom and others. These are: Auto Book, which allows employees to book a free room simply by occupying it, whereupon Auto Book will automatically amend the calendar and turn the light on the room’s Tap Scheduler Logitech is bringing new levels of automation to room booking for a more streamlined user experience and enhanced analytics Book and release *The New Era of Hybrid Work: It’s Time to Give People What They Want, Steelcase Global Research Study, 2022
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