ClearOne, a manufacturer of conferencing, collaboration, and network streaming solutions, is returning to CEDIA 2021 to demonstrate its line of Aura work-from-home (WFH) audio and video collaboration solutions in Booth #4560.

“The future of work and learning requires the set-up of professional quality audio and video collaboration solutions in the home,” comments Zee Hakimoglu, chair and CEO, ClearOne.  

“It is no longer an option, but rather a requirement for the post-Covid world we all live in.”

According to Hakimoglu, builders, architects, designers, contractors, and CEDIA professionals need to embrace the important role they play in offering best-in-class conferencing and collaboration solutions for this new world.  “Webcams and kitchen tables may have been fine when the pandemic started, but a hybrid work environment today is fundamentally a permanent reality and professionals need to replicate their office work environment in the home.”

ClearOne Aura Series Provides Integrators with a Selection of Conferencing Solutions 

ClearOne says the Aura line of products meets the growing needs of residential integrators to easily purchase and install commercial-quality solutions that deliver HDConference audio and true-to-life video technology through a variety of audio and video collaboration solutions. These options the company points out include a choice of microphone and camera components that optimize home office acoustics and homeowners’ aesthetic aspirations.  

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CEDIA professionals, through ClearOne the company emphasizes, can now serve as a one-stop source offering a selection of professional home office solutions from beamforming microphone arrays with built-in DSP processing and Bluetooth connectivity, to home-office cameras and audio components under a single industry brand that is recognized for performance.  

Some of the products that ClearOne will show during the annual trade event include the new Aura UNITE 180 ePTZ Camera and Aura Versa Mediabar.

The company notes these products are designed for professional-quality visual collaboration, conferencing, UC (unified communications) applications, distance learning, and more. The UNITE 180 camera provides a 180-degree panoramic field-of-view with “real-time stitching” to achieve various viewing modes for any application and environment. The Versa Mediabar is an all-in-one collaboration soundbar with audio and video designed for huddle rooms and other small-room spaces. 

Other Aura series products that ClearOne will showcase include the Aura Xceed BMA beamforming microphone array that easily surface mounts to a home-office ceiling to provide homeowners with high-quality conferencing audio. The Xceed BMA features audio beamforming, connectivity directly to loudspeakers, acoustic echo and noise cancellation, and full-duplex audio, so all call participants can speak and be heard clearly and simultaneously. Augmenting the Xceed BMA is CONVERGE Bluetooth Wall Panel that enables mobile devices to join any conference wirelessly.

Additionally, For CEDIA professionals interested in expanding into the commercial market, ClearOne will be showcasing its CONVERGE Pro 2 professional-voice DSP platform for conferencing, sound reinforcement and audio distribution for boardrooms, conference rooms, lecture halls, courtrooms, and houses of worship.

“Our message to CEDIA Show attendees couldn’t be clearer,” adds Hakimoglu.  

“Professional quality audio and video collaboration solutions are needed everywhere more than ever before, in the traditional office work environment and now in the work-from-home environment.  ClearOne, more than any other company, can offer AV Practitioners a full range of natively optimized professional audio, video, and unified communications solutions for the complex world we live in.”

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