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Digital signage is a key symbol of the 21st century. It is electronically controlled signage. This can be anything from an electronic billboard to a TV mounted on top of a restaurant checkout area. At IQ we can provide you with the digital signage and other related products that you may need.. Here is our website, you can click here for quick access to information.

1. What is digital signage?

Digital signage is also called electronic signage, narrowcasting, dynamic signage, and screen media. In simple terms, digital signage can be used to display a variety of content. Digital signage is used in many industries. I will take some examples for you:

1.1 Digital signage can be used to display menu items in a restaurant. If there is a need to change the names, pictures, and prices of food items, this can easily be done on digital signage.

1.2 In the hospital, users can use digital signage to display patient information. For example, the number of appointments and the waiting time can be displayed on the screen.

1.3 Retail shops can use digital signage to display product information. For example, it can show new products, display shop locations, and information about sales activities. This can give the buyer a quick overview of the basic information about the shop.

1.4 Public areas can use digital signage to display relevant information. For example, the location of surrounding attractions and relevant safety notices. This device can be used to quickly inform visitors about the area.

1.5 There are also many scenarios in which digital signage can be used in schools. For example, the latest exam announcements, and the school culture promotion.

1.6 Companies can use digital signage as a welcome sign. It can also be used to display information such as the daily weather and daily news.

2. Digital signage VS traditional signage

Unlike traditional physical signage, digital signage allows for easy content updates. In addition, another important factor is efficiency. Digital signage serves as an open space display area for special situations. For example, in universities, digital signage is installed in easily accessible public areas. Classmates or colleagues can connect wirelessly and display media on it. Although this is not the ideal situation for every scenario listed above. But it shows that deeper collaboration can be achieved anywhere.

2.1 Why choose a display for digital signage

An interactive display is an all-in-one machine that combines collaboration and meeting management features. Users can connect to the interactive flat panel from their own devices or use the multi-touch functionality on the interactive touch screen. The IQTouch HC900 Pro is the world's only dual-camera integrated interactive tablet. It has a 4K 8MP video conferencing camera and a 4K 13MP document camera. It provides vivid, clear images in any light. This is handy for many scenarios of use. If you have a display with the latest notifications, you can add as much content to the screen as you like. This enables both information to be displayed and touch control to be achieved.

3. Advantages of integrated digital signage

Many people may not know the benefits of the interactive flat panel as digital signage. I will take some examples for you.

3.1 Improve your space

To improve your use of the product, I recommend that you purchase an interactive flat panel as digital signage. This is especially true in scenarios such as conference rooms and schools. You can combine multiple displays and create a complete picture with a correlation. You can also blend the background of the content with the color of the wall on which you hang the displays!

3.2 Attract the attention of your customers

People always catch the picture quicker when comparing text and images. The brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. And 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. That's why digital signage is fast becoming the new way to capture customers' attention. With vivid visuals and interactive content, digital signage can engage customers through content. Enabling businesses to effectively guide customers through promotions, displays, and other messages.

3.3 Digital signage boosts revenue.

Imagine that when you walk into a store for the first time. You can see the multiple images on the digital signage displays. That can show the product and the price. You can get the most information about the shop. These kinds of features help businesses increase sales. And shows statistically: digital signage has been scientifically shown to increase sales by about 33%.

3.4 It's affordable

The last and most important point for any business is considering the budget of digital signage. An affordable solution is workable for the corporates. You only need one interactive whiteboard to achieve a good picture display. Here are the options our company has for you regarding displays. You can get more options by clicking here. Of course, if you have other needs, please contact us today. We will provide you with the product you are most satisfied with. For an average-sized room design, the solution can easily be done on a four-figure budget!

As digital signage can display a more vivid picture, it has led more people to choose it. To make your experience better, we recommend that you buy an interactive flat panel as digital signage. This device allows for the display of relevant information and achieves touchscreen control. You can change the content and make presentations whenever and wherever you want. Our company can provide you with the product you are looking for. And we can also offer you intelligent solutions for both education and business. Best of all, smart solutions are affordable. If you are interested in finding the right digital signage and presentation solutions for your space, we will be more than happy to help you achieve your ideal smart space. Please get in touch with us today.

Being interactive has always been a teaching philosophy worldwide. Many schools or universities have adopted interactive whiteboards or interactive flat panels to enhance classroom interactions between teachers and students for an upgraded level of teaching and learning efficiency. However, many of us do not know quite well about what they are before deciding on buying either of them. So people must get to know their features, differences, advantages, and benefits before they decide whether they should go for an interactive whiteboard or the interactive flat panel weighing their pros and cons. This article would definitely help you in some way or another whether you want to buy either of them or just want to clear up your confusion about what they are respectively.

1. What an interactive whiteboard is?

Interactive whiteboard is abbreviated as IWB, which is used by teachers in the classroom to replace the traditional backboard or chalkboard for more engaging and interactive education. Teachers can not only display images, power-point presentations, videos, electronic teaching courseware, and teaching software such as IQKitsMemos but also perform a certain degree of control like writing and drawing either with a pen or with your hand gestures like erasing anything you put on it or writing and drawing something on it. But a question being asked is that can the IWB work alone by itself without the support of other devices to achieve all its features as we expected?

2. Can interactive whiteboard work by itself?

It is common that people who have no previous exposure to the IWB might tend to believe that IWB board is pretty much the same as interactive flat panel such as HA1100 PRO, which has its own inbuilt system for supporting all kinds of direct on-board operation. IWB, in the contrary, is a dependent device that must work in combination with the other two key devices: a computer and a projector. So, an IWB board is pretty much like a whiteboard that has no in-built system inside, however, it does have hardware on all side of the frames, which is what we called the signal emitter and receiver that works together to interpret the X and Y axis of the movement your finger or you pen, which are later synchronized to your computer, then finally get projected to the whiteboard through the projector. So when you are writing or putting something on the board or performing certain actions on the interactive display board, you might feel as if you are working on the IWB directly, however everything you see is what is processed by the computer before being projected through a projector to the screen. So its operation mechanism is indirect as opposed to the direct and self-relied interactive display panel. So the working mechanism or the concept of IWB along with its supporting device might somewhat clarify and explain what an IWB really is for some of our users.

So far, we have a better understanding of what the interactive whiteboard is in terms of its working mechanism, how it is related and work in unison with the computer and projector in the real life application. But what is the benefit or advantage of IWB interactive whiteboard?

3. What are the benefits of buying an interactive whiteboard?

 When compared with an interactive flat panel, the benefit of buying an interactive whiteboard can be basically characterized by the following five reasons:

·Budget-saving: buying IWB can be a good option if you are budget-tight without high demands on the interactive displaying quality in your classroom teaching. To make IWB work, you can get it connected to an existing computer or a laptop dedicated to the classroom, or if teachers tend to bring their own laptop, that will further drive down the cost. And school only needs to buy a projector to support the projection. So it is cheaper than buying interactive flat panel that has its LCD display and its own in-built system. For example, IQTouch interactive flat panel has dual operation system. One is inbuilt system running Android, the other one is detachable OPS module running Android. So if you are budget-tight and do not have high requirements for its interactive and displaying quality, the IWB just is an ideal option for a budget-tight project.  

·Easy-to-operate: IWB is easy to operate for people of all ages. First, the IWB does not have its own operation system like Android, projector. so what you need to do is just to get the IWB set up with computers and that’s it, So it is much easier who are less technical-savvy and get used to the traditional chalkboard, blackboard, or whiteboard, because they don’t have to deal with operation system by tapping on apps and jumping from here and there on the screen for a more complex and interactive teaching result. and sometimes it can be difficult for them to deal with the Android system that is acting up. Second, IWB gives you the convenience of using teaching software that are controlled with icons (keys) on the display. In the most of time, the IWB comes with certain numbers of HOT keys which can be easily used by teachers when they are using such software as IQView Micro-lecture Making, IQKitsMemos, this device comes with abundant resources and subject tools to help enrich your classroom teaching. Third, gesture recognition makes your teaching effortless, on IQ board IFP display, it provides you with 16 points infrared touch, which means you can use gestures to back out a certain function, move something or cancel something while allowing several people to work on the IWB board at the same time.

·Easy-to-maintenance: The IWB can be easily maintained with its simple IWB hardware and projector. In so far as IWB hardware is concerned, IWB is nothing more than whiteboard with little hardware inside except for hardware for X and Y axis-based signal emitting and receiving for example in IQBOARD IR and IQBoard DVT.  IR adopts infrared matrix mechanism while DVT adopts optical imaging mechanism. And both IR type and DVT type are the mainstream IWB type on the market. IWB board comes with little hardware with no system inside therefore it is easy to maintain.

·Eye-protective: The IWB with front projection protects your eyes. When you see the images projected behind for example projecting curtain, the light is emitting directly to your eyes, so it might somewhat hurt your eyes, but when a projector cast the image to the IWB at the front, the light directly emitted to the whiteboard, so IWB is more eye-friendly. And the projector widely in use now is mostly with laser bulbs inside for example IQLaser projector.

·Easy-to-Setup: IWB board along with projector can be easily installed. Before use, IWB display position needs to be calibrated on your laptop with related IWB drive software. Once it is calibrated, it is for good without having to constantly change it. However, you will need to calibrate the Hotkey to make it match the software control icons, such as IQ KitsMemos. At the same time. If are using laser projectors such as IQ laser projector you will have on the limitation on where you can set the IWB up, which is because the laser projector comes with a projection ratio of 0.25, meaning the projector is capable of projecting the full-size image to the IWB even when you put it 0.5 meters away from the IWB, so it is pretty lenient on installation space limitations.

Such are the benefits or the advantage of the IWB. Now let’s take a look at the disadvantage it has when to compare with IFP board.

4. What are the disadvantages of buying an interactive whiteboard.

·The IWB needs calibrating before use. You will need to calibrate the whiteboard so that the IWB can work in unison with the computer, namely, your computer will be able to interpret the position (X/Y axis) of your finger, marker, and pen via either IR or DVT mechanization. But when it comes to IFP, then you will be free from all these calibrations, and is ready to use.

·The IWB cannot work by itself. As you know IWB has to work with a computer and projector, therefore if any one of them goes bad, for example, when projector lamp is broken, it can be inconvenient to maintain or repair it. However IFP has its own system, hardware, and LCD screens, therefore it is just plug-and-play.

·IWB has fewer features with limited scalability. When compare with IFP , which has all kinds of apps, for example, EShare Pro, which allows the students to share the screen contents from their smart phone or laptop to the IFP display, however IWB just cannot do that, and it does not help teachers to create an interactive, engaging, and collaborating environment comparable with that of IFP display.

In summary, Interactive whiteboard has its own advantages that can be summarized as budget-friendly, easy operation, easy maintenance, easy installation, and eye-protective, which can be a good choice for schools who want to cut down cost in the deployment while paying less attention to its display quality, collaboration, interaction, engagement, and powerful features brought by Android OS. While the Android-loaded IFP screen display can be expensive but it brings you display images with high resolution and powerful software that will maximize your collaboration and interactions with the students. With all these bear in mind, it is easier for you to choose between them.

Accompanied by the rapid development in IT technology, everything goes smarter, for example, your smart phone, smart tablets, and so on. An interactive display panel is no exception. The interactive display is getting popular and has become widely used in different scenarios mainly related to teaching application scenarios and company office scenarios. Apart from common functionalities such as writing, drawing, making the presentation, running movies and other video content, and screen sharing, what key features that an interactive flat panel should possess to help better serve people's needs? In this article, we explore with your about why and how AI camera can free people from worries while at the same time creating a more collaborative and engaging user experience.

1. 4K AI Camera  

Nowadays, having a hybrid meeting involving both local meeting participants and remote meeting participants is common place. And sometimes, the remote participant can be an important person in the company like a general manager, a CEO, the board of directors, or even important overseas customers. Given the importance of the meeting, people starting to get worried about how to organize a remote meeting to better engage them, which is because you not only want to get your ideas across to them but also want to make them feel like they are actually in the meeting, with ability to hear people who is talking and who are there in the meeting. But is it hard to achieve what has been mentioned here on the interactive display. Well, IQTouch HA1100 Pro interactive display can serve as a solution.

IQTouch HA1100 Pro comes with two cameras, with the AI camera on top and the document camera at the bottom. With the AI camera, you can successfully bring your laptop or a dongle to call a meeting for the in-room meeting participants and remote participants at the same time. You can access the camera from your mobile device, for example, a laptop to share the live video captured by the camera to someone remotely for a meeting via Zoom, and so on. To be specific, the AI camera has two prominent features, auto-framing and auto voice-tracking. These two features are what bring about an interactive and collaborative meeting experience for remote participants.

2. Auto-framing 

It goes like this, when you turn on the auto-framing feature, the remote meeting participants can see all the people attending the meeting because the camera is capable of bringing all the people in focus in the frame. And this makes it easier for remote participants to see who are there in the meeting, thus making them feel respected, therefore for a higher sense of involvement. And but sometimes, it is important for a remote participant to be able to see who is talking while observing their facial expressions. And if this case, auto-voice tracking is what is needed.

3. Voice-tracking

When it comes to business negotiations or important company meetings involving remote participants, it is all the more important for the remote participants to see the expression of the people who are talking. And the magic power of the voice tracking feature on the camera is that it would automatically bring into focus the one who is talking for 5 seconds continuously, therefore the camera will be able to recognize the speaking event while eliminating the non-speaking one. So the remote participants can always hear and see the talking person and this really help increase the interaction, collaboration, engagement, and involvement of the remote participant. It not only helps maximize the meeting efficiency but also creates more business opportunities by creating virtual face-to-face communication. In short, it brings people closer. In the meantime, the 4k high-definition image from the AI camera also plays import role as it enables the remote participant to see and hear better what is going on in the meeting.

With the help AI camera, you can bring your own laptop to hold a BYOM meeting using a dongle or via sharing software like Eshare. But can we go without the dongle or Eshare? We will talk about this in the following sections.

4. AI camera through Type-C Interface 

Although dongles and sharing software like Eshare are getting popular, sometimes you might get into a situation where you have neither dongles nor do you have EShare Pro pre-loaded on your personal computer. And assuming that you are visiting your customer's company for making a hybrid demo involving local participants and remote participants, but only to find the company you visited has not prepared a dongle or loaded their interactive display with Eshare for you, how would you handle that? But it is completely no problem with HA1100 PRO. IQTouch HA1100 Pro comes with a Type-C interface that would enable you to hold a BYOM-based hybrid remote meeting or a hybrid class without having to use the dongles and Eshare. What you need to have is nothing more than a type-C USB cable and a laptop. By connecting the Type-c USB cable to the Type-C interface of the interactive flat panel, you can easily access the AI camera from your laptop via the USB cable. So type-C on IQTouch HA1100 Pro can serve as a good alternative when both dongle and Eshare software are not available.

Too much about the AI camera on top, let’s take a look at the bottom one.

5. Bottom Document Camera

In school, or meeting room document camera is a regular device for presenting something. However, when the document camera fails or simply there is none, then it can be a problem. IQTouch HA1100 Pro comes with a camera at its bottom. Imagine that if your document camera doesn’t work or simply you don’t have one, what would you do? Well, with the bottom camera, you can present everything you like under it, for example, A3 paper file, or QR code. Very convenient and handy either in a meeting or in a classroom.

To sum up, the dual camera on the IQTouch HA1100 Pro is instrumental in the bushiness application scenario and education scenario. With AI camera, you can bring your own meeting easily with both local and remote participants while achieving closer, more interactive, collaborative, and virtually face-to-face communication between local and remote participants. And IQTouch HA1100 Pro offers you great flexibility as it allows you to access its AI camera via a dongle, EShare Pro, or even with a USB cable. Moreover, the bottom camera is handy when it is necessary for you to present something like a paper document or scanning a QR code to open up a website for presenting something whether it is in the meeting or in the classroom. 

Screening contents sharing is essential in classrooms and meetings. Without this tool, it’s hard for you to present your ideas or contents in a vivid way to influence, attract, and engage your audience for proactive interaction and collaboration whether it is a school, university or  company. The traditional way of screen projecting is basically achieved through wiring up your PCs, laptops with AV cables such as VGA cables and HDMI cables, but that restricts teacher or present’s mobility to better collaborate with students and people in rooms because they are all tethered to the PCs and display.

Wireless Presentation software really frees up the movement of teachers and meeting in the people for maximized collaboration. But it depends on the quality and availability of the network for the screen-content sharing. Then, a wireless screen sharing box, for example, IQShare WP40 comes out to fill in the gap. It not only allows teachers and presenters to move around freely in a room to interact and collaborate with people without being tied to the devices, but also allows them to do wireless presentation totally independent of the network, which ensures stable transmission stability for high-quality wireless screen mirroring. Actually, the screen sharing box function can be greatly maximized through its integration with different types of displaying devices, dongles and screen sharing software to form a comprehensive solution that empowers more convenient, interactive, collaborative wireless presentation with people nearing you and those in a remote distance. And let’s find out in this article about the magic power of the screen boxes.

1. What is screen sharing box?

A sharing box is stand-alone hardware that is embedded with Android system. It is universally adaptable to all types of screen displays such as TV, Projector, IFP panel, or LED display by using an HDMI cable. Sharing box must be used with either dongles and screen sharing software for the wireless presentation, meaning the sharing box receives the data from either of them before its casting the images to the display. It features hotspot-based data transmission for robust, stable, and 4k high-resolution wireless screen sharing.

2. Why we need screen sharing box?

Our society is getting more interactive and collaborative than ever before. Everybody wants to share their idea while getting new information from their peers online or offline. And as a good way to stimulate people to come up with creative ideas, brainstorming has been widely adopted worldwide. But the meeting venues are often equipped without outdated screen-mirroring devices for their lacking of AV ports such HDMI and VGA does not help with a convenient wired presentation, much less support such event as brainstorming that features more interactive and collaborative meeting and discussions. The wireless presentation software saves people from these troubles and inconvenience, but people have to make sure that their displays come with an embedded Android system along with wireless presentation software before they can go wireless. So it is petty demanding from both hardware and software perspectives.

And following are the benefits of using the screen sharing box.

● Better compatibility and software free: screen sharing box can be compatible with a wide range of displays with HDMI interface for screen sharing. Moreover, it can work as well with display with no Android system and pre-installed screen sharing software, which is because it is stand-alone module with an embedded Android system and screen sharing software. And that means you can simply integrate your screen sharing box with existing displaying devices such as TVs and Interactive Display panels without having to worry about if they have Android system and screen sharing software or not. Also it’s budget-saving.

● Hospot-based stable 4k data transmission: compare with wireless sharing software, the screen box can go without the network, thus ensuring a stable and robust 4k data transmission. While the sharing using sharing software tends to be affected by network quality and availability.

● Maximized collaboration and engagement in classrooms and teaching: in the collaboration-intensive event like braining storming, the screen sharing box makes it easier for all the students or participant to share their screen simultaneously from their laptops, smart phone and so on, so people never have to worry about having to wait to switch the devices for the screen sharing, as everybody can get their ideas through instantly, proactively at their fingertip. That way, the meeting can be made productive and engaged.

3. What do we need for a highly interactive brainstorming meeting?

For a highly interactive brainstorming meeting, we need a dongles or sharing software, interactive displays, laptops, smartphones, smartpens.

First to consider is the selection of IFP display to go with IQShare WP40 screen sharing box. The IFP To be recommended is HA1100 PRO interactive display with the following reasons

● HA1100 PRO is pre-installed with wireless presentation software ESharePro, an upgraded version of Eshare capable of allowing more than 32 users to be connected with nine split screens being displayed at the same time.

● Its embedded EsharePro allows no app casting, meaning you can cast your screen image to the interactive display using the sharing protocols like Airplay, Chromecast, ,Mirrorcast, and so on without having to download EShare software for the screen sharing. Additionally, the software allows webcast-based remote casting, which allows you to share screen with them remotely for better collaboration.

● HA1100 PRO comes with a touch-control USB, which allows the presenter to control their laptop directly from the display for such operations sharing document, picture, and playing music or video if needed without going back to their laptop to do it.

Are there any other devices that can help with the collaboration, yes, an IQ Smart Pen is a good option, as the presenter can move freely in the room, here they can actually use the smart pen to control, for example, power-point presentation by simply pairing it up with your laptop. And that’s it, it really convenient and handy.

To sum up, the screen sharing box really has lots of advantages over the HDMI-based the software-based wireless presentation. First, its good compatibility allows it to be easily adapted to all kinds of screen displays and connected with multiple mobile devices at the same time. Second, its hotspot feature ensures 4k stable, and reliable data transmission as opposed to the less stable transmission quality of network-reliant software. And more importantly, it brings about highly interactive and collaborative meetings engaging all the participants in-room and at a remote distance.

Against the background of fast-paced development of IT technology, things are going wireless in our life and work. Many people have replaced their wired keyboards and mouse in their office with wireless ones to get rid of messy tables full of clumsy and tangled cables. The same thing is happening in presentations we make in the multimedia classrooms, meetings, conferences, and remote learning that requires collaboration and engagement. The traditional way of making presentations is done by using an HDMI cable for screen sharing, but it is inconvenient and clumsy. People want nothing in the way between their laptop and the screen display or a projector. Then wireless presentation software come out as an alternative. It really frees people from wires in presenting, but it involves inconvenient network-based pair-ups, compromised resolutions, and data latency when the network goes bad. And the dongleclick share dongle serves as a remedy for the problem, it not only allows stable and wireless presentation but also enables you to go to without the network for its hot-spot technology. The power of click share dongle is more than that, as it will extend your wireless presentation to a greater scope beyond your imagination when it is in connection with an interactive flat panel for more engaging and collaborative learning and meeting carried out in-room or remotely. This article will work with you to find out what a click share dongle is, its advantage, and its application potentiality.

1. What is Click Share Dongle?

A click share dongle is actually a smart-sized, portable hardware with an built-in system that you can plug into your USB drive laptop for hot-spot-based screen-contents sharing. To be specific, It is a plug-and-play device that allows speedy wireless data transmission to a device such as an interactive display that you paired your click share dongle with, completely network-free to a certain degree, it can be viewed as an external module that empowers your laptop computer with the greater function of screen screening. It can be applied in wide range of application scenarios, for instance, classroom teaching, training, meeting, in-room meeting, or even remote meeting or conference, and so on.

2. Why We Need Click Share Dongles?

Whether in a school, a university or a company, sharing as a way of communication is a crucial and indispensable part of our life. And the advancement of IT technology has contributed a lot to communication by offering us broadened and diversified methods of information sharing. With that, we can communicate and share anything we want with people in the room or even with remote meeting participants. And it is obvious that people are increasingly in favor of E-contents that feature easy storage and replication, mobility, and convenience.

So that pretty much explains why we have to bring our laptop computer before we go in to the classroom, give lectures, or go in to a meeting to share or present our ideas. Traditionally, E-contents sharing is achieved through a wired connection, for example, in order to share information with the students or other team members in the meeting, people have to connect their laptop to the display or a projector using an HDMI cable. HDMI-based screen sharing really helps, but more often than not that people find it to be very clumsy to constantly pull a cable between a laptop and display. People want to go wireless in screen sharing. So wireless screen-sharing app came out, but it is very network-reliant with troublesome network setup.

3. Click Share Dongle Versus HDMI Cable in Screen-content Sharing?

click share dongle outperforms HDMI in screen sharing in terms of its wireless feature and convenience. Imagine that you hurried into the meeting, where there is no HDMI cable, what would you do? Or even if you have one, you might find the display that only supports a VGA interface, instead of HDMI one. In addition, especially in big conference with a big table, you might find the HDMI cable is too short to support your screen sharing from where you are. And if there is more than one meeting participant to give presentation or make a report, you have to pass the HDMI cable to the next people which involves lots of HDMI unplug-and-plug, and people have to change seat for the HDMI cable connection if the HDMI is too short. And this is not what we want to expect for an efficient meeting experience. 

However, with click share dongles, you are totally free from these problems. You can come to a meeting with a laptop along with a click share dongle. Instead of looking around to find a HIDMI cable, checking if the display is compatible with HDMI cable, or feeling worried about cable length, you can just simply plug your click share dongle into an IFP display, then plug it into your laptop, and that’s it, you can stay at your seat sharing your presentation in your laptop to the display wire-free, without moving your seat closer the display to accommodate the length of HDMI cable. Additionally, you can pass the click share dongle to other presentation givers to start a wireless presentation. And one noticing advantage of a click share dongle is that it allows you to control your laptop on the display, realizing the two-way control, meaning you can do anything you want on your laptop directly on your display without going back to laptop to do something like, play a video, opening a file and so, and this really goes beyond the boundary of the passive, and one-way HDMI-cable sharing. So a click share dongle has covered all the shortages of HDMI cable screen sharing.

4. Click Share Dongle Versus Screen Sharing Software

A click share dongle is more convenient than screen-sharing app. You can also go wireless for screen sharing using screen sharing software. But one thing to bear in mind is that most of the software on the market only supports networked data transmission between your laptop and display, so if you cannot pair up your laptop with the software such as Eshare on the display in the same LAN network environment, you cannot do screen-sharing. And it can very frustrating if the network suddenly cut off or goes bad because it does harm to the screen-sharing quality such as latent images and poor resolution.

In the contrary, a click share dongle is designed to go without the network. It instead relied on the hotspot from the IFP display to build up the connection for the screen-sharing. So you can do the screen sharing even without network. More importantly, a click share dongle has better transmission stability than screen-sharing software to ensure screen sharing quality.

5. How to Select click share dongles?

Can we buy the click share dongles randomly? Well, click share dongles come in different types with varied capabilities and connections. You can select click share dongles depending on what laptop you have and what quality of screen-sharing your want.

And here are pieces of advice:

·Buy a fully functional USB-C click share dongle if both your laptop and interactive display panel come with comes with a fully functional type-c interface. Full Function here means USB interface that allows control signal transmission,

data transmission, and battery charging. It has three benefits: it supports 4K high resolution data transmission, it is all-in-one connection, and it allows to access the AI camera, for example on IQTouch HA1100 Pro interactive display

panel, to make an immersive, engaging, and collaborative meeting for the people in-room or attending remotely.

· Buy an HDMI(19) USB-A click share dongle if both your laptop and interactive display panel come with comes with USB-A interface. It supports 1080P output resolution, but it allows 60FPS data transmission. An ideal option when you

want a faster speed with the lower requirements on the resolutions.

·Buy a USB-A click share dongle if both your laptop and interactive display have USB-A interface.

How to Use click share dongle to Cast Your Screen to an IFP display?

To share your screens, you need an IFP display. Here we take a IQShare Button click share dongle and IQTouch TB1100 Pro interactive display as examples. You need to pair up your click share dongle with the display by plugging into USB interface for pairing up, then plug it into your computer, then with a click, you can start your screen-sharing to the display. And that is what we called Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

How to Conduct an Immersive Meeting with the both in-room and Remote Participants?

It is not uncommon that we have in-room meeting participants and those attending the meeting remotely. So how to keep them engaged and collaborating in an immersive meeting really matters. And this application is highly demanding on the hardware. You will need a fully functional USB-A click share dongle and IFP display with an AI camera for the BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting). So all you have to do is to pair your laptop with the display before starting BYOM meeting via third-party platform such as Zoom on which you can access the front view of IFP’s AI camera and synchronize it to the remote meeting participants, making them feel like they are actually in the meeting.

To sum up, a click share dongle from IQBoard is really ideal option for making wireless presentation. When you compared it to traditional HDMI-cable based presentation, it saves you from clumsy wired and inconvenient operations while enabling you to bring your own meeting with both in-room and remote participants for a more interactive, collaborative, engaging, and efficient hybrid learning and meeting experience. And it also has its own advantage over wireless presentation software because it has better transmission stability, network-free easy paring, and no software installation. In short, click share dongles bring you great convenience and comfort in all kinds of wireless presentation in your daily life and work.

Nowadays, many enterprises, institutions, large groups, and organizations will use cameras to varying degrees. People use video cameras for teleconferencing and meeting recording. Hybrid meetings are increasingly important that enables employees to work from anywhre. The meeting equipment must be prepared in advance. IQ company provides the professional product line “Audio&Video Conferencing”. We offer many kinds of conference cameras that are suitable for different sizes of the meeting rooms. You can click on our official website, www.iqboard.net,  to learn more about the powerful functions of each camera. This article takes a large conference event as an example to provide suggestions for what preparations you need to make in advance.

1. Preliminary Preparation Steps

1.1 Choosing Equipment

· In a hybrid conference with a large number of people and a large area, two cameras are required to meet the conference's needs. One mainly captures the speaker's speech, and the other one captures the interaction with the participants. It can also be appropriately added and decreased according to the needs of the meeting.

· It is necessary to arrange the camera position in advance. The tripod can be arranged according to the site. Our IQConference Cam CV810 can support preset positions set in advance. The camera supports up to 255 presets. The staff can arrange the position of the camera in advance and set the preset position. Ensure smooth experience of video conference while switching focus between the camera presets.

· Ensure that the venue has adequate lighting. Equipment such as flashlights can be prepared in advance. Make sure everyone during the meeting can be seen clearly.

1.2 Screen Composition

Before the meeting, the participants arrived at the meeting room in advance. Adjust the camera position according to the meeting space, scenery, lighting, and so on. If the speaker is sitting, the best camera height is to be able to see above the speaker's shoulders. This allows you to see the speaker more clearly. The number of lights should also be enough. Because sufficient lighting can keep the video conference picture clear.

2. Mid-term Preparation Steps

2.1 The camera capture needs to be determined by the content of the meeting. According to the focus of the meeting, highlight the content of the speaker's speech. Preset positions can be configured. It is convenient to switch the shooting position during the meeting.

2.2 The worker who arranges the camera must know the process of the meeting. To capture both participants and speakers in a video conference. When different representatives are speaking, the camera shooting position should be switched in time.

3. Post-preparation Steps

3.1 Equipment Inspection

During the meeting, users need to pay attention to the video of the camera. Adjust the clarity of the picture in time. Our Audio&Video Conference Cam CV810 has 4K UHD and 60fps. What’s more, our camera has 12X optical zoom and 16X digital zoom for details capturing. It can ensure that what you present is clear.

3.2 Live-streaming Conference

In addition to remote conferences through our conference cameras. LAN port connectivity on CV810 allows it to have web-based control and RTSP/RTMP stream. So user can easily connect live video content to any online broadcasting platform including YouTube. This feature can meet the collaboration with remote colleagues. It is also possible to deliver the meeting to the network platform. In this way, more people can watch it.

4. How to Choose A Conference Camera

Most people, don't know how to choose the right conference camera. Two of the most confusing types of cameras are webcams and video conferencing cameras.

4.1 Webcam VS Conference Camera

There are many similarities in the functionality of these two cameras. The main similarity is that they can connect over two users join video conference. But the webcam is built into the computer and conference camera is not. Users can also purchase IP cameras separately. Install the IP camera on the user's device. Webcams usually only hold one person. So webcams are great for individuals joining meetings or making video calls with family members. Conference cameras usually have wide-angle lenses. Our Conference Camera CV810 has Tilt-30°~+90°, FOV (Field of View) 70° and Pan(Panning) 170°. And our cam built-in gravity sensor device. This mechanism means that when you mount the camera upside down, it automatically adjusts the image orientation. Therefore, the ability to optimize the image according to the type of environment is also one of the characteristic functions of the conference camera.

4.2 What to Consider Before Buying A Conference Camera

When looking for the right conference camera for your job, you need to pay attention to a few things. The first is the relationship between the resolution of the camera and the network. The conference camera can support 4k UHD for using, but the speed of the network will affect the quality of the picture. The next thing to consider is the budget. Plan your budget based on your work needs. In addition, if the meeting environment is large, additional microphones and speakers are required to ensure that everyone can be heard and seen.

Summarize

Hybrid meetings are increasingly important. Planning and scheduling well in advance is required before hosting a hybrid large meeting. In order to better conduct remote meetings, the selection of conference cameras is very important. Our company can provide different cameras and related products for different customers. We are a company specializing in the fields of education and business meetings. We not only provide corresponding products but also provide supporting intelligent solutions. If you need to arrange a high-level conference room, we can provide you with a complete set of solutions. If necessary, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will explain the function of the product to you in detail so that you can choose the most suitable product for you.