Located in the heart of Beijing’s business and diplomatic district, the German Centre Beijing provides modern office spaces, offers conference and meeting facilities, alongside offering practical advice and services – a complete workspace infrastructure enabling tenants to focus on business. Since 1999, more than 500 companies have used the centre to start and grow a business in China. Currently, it is home to more than 70 companies.
The centre offers various types of meeting room and facilities for both offline and online meetings and activities, recently installing two Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling 2 (TCC2) units in its Stuttgart meeting room to improve hybrid meeting and conferencing.
‘With the Covid-19 pandemic, many meetings have moved online,’ says German Centre Beijing MD, Jochen Tenhagen. ‘We saw a huge increase in the demand for better meeting room audio and conferencing solutions to support this “new normal”.’
The 72m2 Stuttgart meeting room seats up to 50 people, and is used for a variety of functions and business meetings. The room can be expanded into a larger conference area for up to 100 participants with different seating configurations. The adaptive beamforming technology and TruVoicelift functionality of TCC2, which significantly increases speech intelligibility in a meeting or conference room, proved a good fit for the audio and conferencing solution for the space. It is also possible to define advanced exclusion zones within the meeting room to eliminate unwanted noise sources, and a priority zone for uninterrupted speech pick-up.
‘TCC2 has enabled a truly contactless and wireless experience for our tenants, which has greatly reduced hygiene risks,’ Tenhagen reports. ‘The dynamic beamforming technology automatically follows the active speaker’s voice, allowing them freedom of movement in the room. Most importantly for us, this meant that the configuration of the room is flexible, and changing it will not impair the audio quality.’
The TCC2 units are mounted in the meeting room ceiling, after an easy and straightforward installation. The integration of TCC2 with other solutions, such as the QSC Q-Sys Core 110f processor and Barco Clickshare CX-30 conferencing was seamless and, together, they form an integrated smart system that can be controlled using the Crestron control panel.
With the upgrade of the Stuttgart room, TCC2 has not only made remote conferencing more convenient, but elevated the in-room audio capabilities for live events and meetings. As a consequence, it has become the most popular meeting room at the German Centre Beijing.
‘We can now hear each other clearly from every part of the room, without handheld microphones,’ Tenhagen says. ‘The conferencing experience for participants who attend meetings and events virtually has also improved greatly with TCC2. Regardless of whether two or 20 participants attend, the sound quality of our virtual meetings is comparable to face-to-face meetings. I am very satisfied with this partnership with Sennheiser.’
TCC2 is compatible with leading video collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Tencent Meeting and is certified for Microsoft Teams when deployed with Microsoft-certified DSPs.
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