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Modern Work Solutions with AI in Mind

March 31, 2026

Bring it all together with Crestron

Remarkable things can happen when modern workplace and learning environments integrate three essential capabilities: sharing information effortlessly (Content), connecting people naturally (Collaboration), and automating technology intelligently (Control). Our unified solutions bring them together flawlessly to help you simplify and enrich the ways you work and learn.

The New Normal: Hybrid Work and AI Tools

Hybrid work is now the norm for many, many organizations. AI tools are part of the mix of most meetings. And with those developments come challenges: How do you deliver excellence across hundreds of rooms without the time and expense of custom integration every time? How do you ensure that every collaborator has a consistent, intuitive, and user-friendly experience, whether they’re in-person or remote? And how do you create the infrastructure that best leverages the AI functions that are at your disposal?

Crestron set out to engineer solutions that are purpose-built to meet those challenges. As Hintze says, “Our engineers strove to answer what amounted to a single question: What if collaboration just worked — everywhere, every time?”

Crestron Flex video conferencing

For teams at their best, Crestron Flex comes first. Any room. Every time. Crestron Flex delivers an intuitive, consistent video conferencing experience for effortless, effective teamwork. Join meetings on your platform of choice, with built in Microsoft Teams® software or Zoom Rooms® software, all with BYOD options to support your way of working.

Meeting the Moment with New Solutions

One of the solutions Crestron has engineered to operate at the heart of a truly effective collaboration ecosystem is the new Collab Compute, a purpose-built hardware platform that powers Microsoft Teams® Rooms and Zoom Rooms® software on Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. This isn’t a device that’s been adapted for this purpose — it was designed from the outset to deliver intelligent, scalable, and future-ready collaboration across almost any space.

In addition to the Collab Compute platform, Crestron is also introducing a suite of hardware and software products that work seamlessly in concert to deliver outstanding collaboration experiences. They include:

  • The Automate VX 6.5 multi-camera speaker tracking solution, a powerful firmware update that simplifies intelligent video deployments and offers greater device support. This update includes AutoMeasure, a feature that utilizes computer vision and ArUco markers to precisely detect the position and orientation of cameras and microphones, resulting in a calibrated system that delivers consistent, high-quality video performance without requiring manual measurement.
  • The new 80-Series Touch Screens, intelligent, purpose-built user interfaces that deliver intuitive control, flexible scheduling, and enterprise-grade security across nearly every space and workflow. This next generation of Crestron touch screens brings the user a single interface for scheduling, UC control, and room automation.
  • The 1 Beyond i12D Camera, an intelligent PTZ camera with built-in speaker tracking, delivering advanced video features like group framing and intelligent switching in a single, elegant device — with no complex programming. These 4K cameras feature built-in microphones and Visual AI for speaker tracking all in a single, streamlined device that enhances everyday meeting rooms by providing high-quality, intelligent video without the extensive infrastructure required by larger systems.
  • The DM NAX Intelligent Audio Processing Platform is a scalable platform built with an ecosystem of mic pods, speakers, and AES-67 devices, delivering AI-ready audio that scales from huddle rooms to high-impact spaces. Features include Direction of Arrival Audio (a beamforming function that tracks a speaker’s location), advanced DSP, noise reduction, and auto-mixing. Specifically tuned for Microsoft 365® Copilot and Zoom AI Assistant, the platform delivers speaker tracking, crystal-clear audio, and AI summarizations and transcriptions.

The result: we've engineered five innovations that work together as one ecosystem.

“By bringing together content, collaboration, and control in ways that truly integrate, we're making great collaboration the default experience everywhere,” says Joel Mulpeter, senior director of product marketing at Crestron. With AI-powered deployment that reduces setup time, the purpose-built Collab Compute features edge AI for professional AV environments, unified interfaces that work the way people naturally do, and intelligent peripherals that deliver premium experiences without complexity. Crestron solutions can tackle it all.

Crestron offers a range of innovative solutions designed to elevate the modern workplace, from seamless collaboration tools to advanced automation and control systems. As a trusted integrator, we have the expertise to bring Crestron’s technology to life and tailor it to your unique needs. Ready to enhance your next project? Contact us today for a free consultation!

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