Anyone who has worked in an organisation, or spent time in a healthcare or education facility, understands how critical it is to get everyone on the same page — sometimes quite literally.
Once everyone is in the room, either physically or virtually, we want to reduce the amount of time that is spent on getting the presentation up on the screen or connecting in the UC video conference from other team members.
In speaking with Brian Cockrell, Intel Unite’s Product Owner and Co-founder, he tells UC Today that his team was spending nearly half of the time at their daily standup meetings getting their content up and the UC calls with their other teams running.
“It wasn’t going to scale, having 15 minutes to talk and having half your time being cut off,” he says. Out of this frustration, a team of Intel engineers did what they do best. They built something to deal with the problem.
What emerged was the early model for Intel Unite’s solution, which Cockrell says helped them to get their entire setup running in under a minute.
Introducing Intel Unite
On a basic level, the Intel Unite solution is a fast way to wirelessly connect users to a presentation hub or with each other.
It is used by enterprises, medical, education, and other types of organisations to save time and securely share content with others. All types of PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux devices can wirelessly connect to any hub running an Intel i5 processor or higher. No need to retrofit the office or classrooms with new gear.
“Within the Intel Unite solution, you have the capability to then extend out to someone that might not be in the office,” explains Cockrell.
“They might be on Webex and they're remote and you can then pull them into a meeting as well. So you have this flexibility in how you have your collaboration spaces set up”
But beyond the basic feature set of streamlining collaboration, the Intel Unite solution is an ecosystem that includes UC integrations like Webex that they may already be using within their organisation. Adding these features can be done by an admin for their web console, reducing the need to send out someone from IT to make your next Webex call from the conference room. If the API isn’t out there, then your team can use Intel Unite’s SDK to write your own add-on or plug-in.
Just What the Doctor Ordered
One of the primary user bases for the Intel Unite solution according to Cockrell is the healthcare operations field.
“A primary use case that we are seeing is in clinic rooms where patients meet with their doctors,” says Cockrell. Doctors can easily connect their devices to a screen in the room to share information with their patient.
