Lightware Advanced
Room Automation
LARA’s vision is to provide a future-proof room automation platform for system integrators so they can seamlessly and effectively support people's virtual or in-person collaboration
Control Your Meeting Room Automation Process
Open Approach
Control both Lightware and 3rd party devices and access remote services over the network
Control through TCPIP, Ethernet, RS232, GPIO, CEC interfaces
Re-use generic pre-written modules for the most common protocols (REST, TCPIP, LW3) to control devices like DSPs, microphones, matrices
Readiness to Use
Will not need to have deep programming knowledge thanks to continuously expanding pre-written driver-set
Possibility for advanced programmers to write modules and configurations in JavaScript
Set up parameters easily and re-use modules due to LARA’s modular software design
No need for certificated trainings
No Need for External Controller
Integrated in Lightware products
Updates come seamlessly with firmware upgrade
Optimize costs and reduce environmental footprint by not having to add an additional controller unit
Make the Most Out of Your Corporate Meetings
Invisible Meeting Support
Let LARA seamlessly and invisibly support your corporate life. Embedded in Taurus UCX, LARA can ensure that devices in the meeting space are ready to use by the start of the meeting and manage device behavior all along even after meetings
Make remote team interaction seamless for colleagues from all over the world
Meeting Efficiency
Let the meeting participants control the meeting room from a single touchscreen. No need to bother with several device controls
Focus fully on your personal or hybrid meetings and let LARA set up the technical meeting space for you
Have standard meeting room experience with devices always behaving according to the same automation rules: no surprises or embarrassing situations for the less technical-minded colleagues
Environment
Support the environment by setting LARA to manage automated room switch-off
Optimize costs and reduce environmental footprint by not having to add an additional controller unit to each meeting room
Provide Seamless Learning and Teaching Experience
Class Efficiency
Let the professor control the auditorium, classroom from a single touchscreen. No need to bother with several device controls.
Let the professors focus on what they are best at: imparting knowledge to students and let LARA set up the technical space for them.
Invisible Groupwork and Exam Support
Make personal or hybrid groupwork sessions and exams a seamless experience for students. Embedded in Taurus UCX, LARA can ensure that devices in the meeting space are ready to use by the start of the groupwork session and manage device behavior all along even after the session is over.
Environment
Support the environment by setting LARA to manage automated auditorium and study room switch-off.
Optimize costs and reduce environmental footprint by not having to add an additional controller unit to each auditorium or group study room
The Constantly Evolving Automation Platform
At launch, we aimed at delivering a solution to the user’s problem quickly. To be able to deliver this solution fast, we consciously cut functionalities and comfort enhancements to minimum, we don’t deliver a “skyrocket” product just yet.
Instead, we will do it gradually, by adding new functionalities regularly in small increments, prioritizing them by user value.
This approach enables us to put you in the center of product development: We will continuously iterate based on your feedback, hence the LARA team encourages you to reach out and share your feedback with us at lara@lightware.com . We will take them into consideration for the upcoming releases.
We ensure you that we are working hard to release new functionalities and modules frequently to further improve the basic feature-set of the first LARA release.
Configuration Flexibility
LARA’s aim is to create value for system integrators who are not comfortable with programming or want to develop their programming skills as well as for experienced programmers. One of LARA’s key goals is to allow integrators to create room automation:
- without deep programming knowledge thanks to continuously expanding pre-written driver module-set
- by writing modules and configurations in JavaScript
- by mixing the two approaches, do part of the configuration with wizards and templates, do part of it by programming
Why JavaScript?
Open Source Language with Long-term Viability
JavaScript is a modern, open source programming language that has continuously expanding libraries and modules. Its components are accessible online, making configuration development faster and cost-efficient
Easy Learning Curve
JavaScript is easy to learn, it has a steep learning curve with its event-loop basis. Programmers can pick up JavaScript easily and they can quickly get up to speed to program LARA modules.
Enormous Online Community and Online Support
Various online communities provide strong support for those interested in learning JavaScript programming
Why Wizards?
- To enable integrators to create room automation rules without programming
- To help integrators develop their programming skills by setting up parts of the automation rules with wizards and modify or change the wizard’s Javascript code
- To enable integrators set up more complex room automation: automate with wizard to a certain level and upgrade complexity by modifying the wizard’s code
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Related Materials
In order to help you getting more familiar with LARA, we have collected a selection of supporting materials, including guides, configuration examples and also some practice tasks.To access these, simply go to the Download Page:
User Guides | Training Materials | Examples
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