Lightware – Microsoft Teams Rooms Integration

Lightware’s Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTRoW) Integration to Expand and Extend AV Connectivity with Automation and Room Control features

Seamless Technology Integration

Lightware's Taurus Switcher solutions with Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows was developed for system integrators, IT professionals, and corporate meeting room users. It delivers advanced Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) functionality and room control capabilities for Teams meeting spaces.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Integration for Taurus UCX/TPX

With this collaboration corporate spaces can streamline their meeting processes, ensuring seamless integration of personal devices and centralized room control. Education facilities can enhance classroom cooperation by enabling easy content sharing and efficient room management. Conference venues can elevate the attendee experience with flexible connectivity options.

Features

Meeting room peripherals in BYOD mode

You can enjoy the professional peripherals of the meeting room (like Teams certified cameras and microphones), while you can start the meeting call from your own laptop, using any collaboration platforms.

Share content on Teams calls

You can share content from your laptop while an MTR call is in progress

Control devices in the room

The icons available on the touch screen can be programmed through LARA to control room equipment such as projector, screen and lighting. Up to three clients can be connected and switched between them automatically or manually by the Teams like touch-interface

By configuring the Lightware Companion App on a Microsoft Teams Rooms PC and integrating the Companion module within Lightware Advanced Room Control (LARA), additional functions can be introduced to enhance the capabilities of the meeting room.

This solution can be integrated with any Windows-based Microsoft Teams Rooms system for seamless hybrid meeting experiences.

Automatic and Manual Source Selection

During MTR Call

During an ongoing meeting, the room peripherals (like cameras, audio devices) are always connected to the MTR, while laptops only function as sources.

During Out of Call

The connected laptops can receive the meeting room peripherals as BYOD clients, which can be done manually or automatically.

Room Contol Functions

Using the touchpanel allows control over the following functions within the meeting room: Displays on/off, Projector on/off, Projector screen on/off, Light control on/off. Additional room control functions are under development.

Powered by the Taurus product family, it augments the Microsoft Teams Rooms experience by allowing users to effortlessly integrate their personal laptops with the room’s meeting system. This enables flexible content sharing together with access to lighting, projector and shade controls from a single control panel.

The system’s main components are

Additional functions can be introduced to further enhance meeting room capabilities with the Lightware Companion App. Lightware Taurus Switchers have also been validated for use by a wide range of leading meeting room technology manufacturers, including Lenovo, Poly, Logitech, Yealink and Barco.