Audio Visual Trends 2022 & beyond

According to Technavio, the professional Audio Visual (AV) market is expected to increase by ￡76.14 billion between 2020 and 2025, with the market's growth momentum predicted to accelerate at a CAGR of 7.31%.

Driving a significant proportion of this growth, Technavio says, is digital signage, used by organisations to influence consumer behaviours and create immersive experiences for staff.

Moreover, with hybrid working arrangements firmly here to stay, facilitating effective collaboration between business users – regardless of their physical location – has become a top priority for many organisations.?

Whether you’re looking to refresh your on-site meeting rooms to boost collaboration or create immersive experiences for event visitors at external locations, audio visual technologies will inevitably form a core part of your strategy.

To help you on your digital transformation journey, we’ve compiled this list of five 2022/23 audio visual trends.

1. More Automation and Touchless Experiences

While our lives are returning to some semblance of normality, the pandemic fallout will influence how we live, work and interact long. This is particularly true in how we interact with our working environments.

The need to avoid touching shared surfaces, such as light switches and climate controls, has accelerated the prevalence of touchless technologies. In the beginning, touchless technologies mainly focused on boosting an organisation’s green credentials through smart building solutions. Today the focus is on creating more hygienic experiences.?

Imagine entering a meeting room and the lights automatically coming on, courtesy of the occupancy detector. More sensors then dictate the correct lighting level, temperature and window blind settings. The AV screens then switch on and automatically change to the right input, ready for you to connect your device and deliver your presentation.?

Not only does such a setup significantly decrease the amount of contact, but it also reduces the effort upon entering a meeting room.

2. Bring Your Own Device

On the topic of seamless meeting room experiences, we expect a rise in organisations facilitating bring your own device, or BYOD, policies. This is where business users are permitted and enabled to bring their devices, such as laptops and tablets, into work environments and use them as if they were corporate equipment.

But BYOD policies carry an element of risk, so organisations must have the proper infrastructure and software to mitigate it.?

The two main benefits of BYOD strategies are that they can help boost productivity by allowing staff to use familiar devices while simultaneously reducing IT hardware costs.

3. Truly Effective Hybrid Collaboration

With a mix of people working in the office, at home and other company locations, the need to facilitate seamless hybrid collaboration has never been greater. Organisations can benefit from both boosted productivity and better employee morale by creating effective hybrid collaboration.

However, enabling such seamless collaboration can present a challenge. One of the biggest pitfalls is affording the same experience for those collaborating virtually as those on-site. The issue is ensuring the former do not feel their connectivity, communication and collaboration mechanisms are an afterthought. If this happens, your organisation’s remote workers will feel undervalued and their productivity will likely suffer.

Unified communication solutions, which incorporate video, voice, instant messaging and other capabilities in a single platform, are undoubtedly the best way to boost collaboration throughout a distributed workforce. When coupled with advanced video conferencing solutions, unified communications can facilitate seamless collaboration from various locations and devices, as well as uninterrupted information sharing.

4. Large, Seamless LED Video Walls

Traditional video walls comprised many televisions or monitors woven together to create the impression of one large display. However, the thick frames or bezels on most older displays detract from the overall aesthetic and ruin the seamless effect.

Nowadays, LED screens, with their minimalist frames, lend themselves perfectly to video wall applications. By stitching together several LED display tiles, organisations can create large and vivid video walls with clarity and impressive colours. LEDs use less power than their traditional TV counterparts. This boosts an organisation’s ESG credentials in the process.

Typical LED video wall applications include command and control rooms, meeting rooms and digital signage.

5. Remote AV Monitoring and Maintenance

Monitoring and maintenance are the final consideration for organisations looking to implement the latest audio visual technologies and solutions. A dedicated internal team of AV specialists is often cost-prohibitive for many businesses.

Increasingly, organisations are turning to managed monitoring and maintenance offerings to keep their AV solutions performing at their best and reduce operating costs. Such support arrangements can provide real-time monitoring and feedback, allowing any potential issues to be detected and resolved before they impact business users.

Maintenance also becomes more intuitive, with remote engineers identifying troublesome equipment and fixing or replacing them urgently.

AV Solutions in Action

At Ajar Technology, we’ve been helping organisations progress along their digital transformation journeys since 2005. Our significant knowledge and experience allow us to configure the perfect mix of audio visual technology, digital transformation tools and data analysis services for your organisation’s needs.

One example of this is our partnership with multiple UK Police Forces to facilitate new ways of working and modernise their audio visual and video conferencing capabilities, demonstrating our end to end capabilities.

Having engaged with various Police Force stakeholders, we defined and designed a bespoke solution which enabled the organisation to leverage technology investment to provide an agile and flexible working environment for all staff. The result is a stimulating, smart working environment that uses scalable and flexible audio visual technologies.

Our AV case studies can be read on our website https://ajartechnology.com/case-studies/ Contact us to learn more about how we can help your organisation realise its advanced audio visual ambitions.