Fujitsu has resisted, up to now, entering the market for meeting room or presentation displays. One of the reasons, it told us several years ago, was that it’s business is almost entirely with IT departments and often A/V equipment was sold to Facilities Management and sometimes to building owners, rather than users and tenants. However, that is changing because of the increasing need for connectivity and a desire to connect the displays to corporate networks, with all the security and other considerations that connections entail. That means that IT departments are now in the market for display solutions.
Fujitsu Large Display Currently uses a Promethean Display and has a white board on the back. Image:Meko
Fujitsu’s Stockholm office (rather than the factory in Augsberg) has developed the concept of the ‘meeting room as a service’ It has designed a meeting room display, including an integrated PC, audio and camera as well as Fujitsu’s palm security that can be wheeled from room to room. The display is a touch display with a 55″ FullHD panel from Promethean, and with that company’s white board software.
The unit is quite bulky, but the rear is a traditional white board, so the bulk has some purpose. In the future, the display may be replaced with an alternately-sourced item rather than being sourced from Promethean. The unit is not being sold, but rented on a monthly basis, but, on the basis that the contract has a number of options, Fujitsu was not able to give us a sense of the cost.
The meeting room display is designed to offer a guest network to room users and allows the sharing of content from a range of client devices.
Now that the system has been developed, it will also be promoted outside Sweden and the appearance at the Forum was the first public showing.
