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Background
Linkforce moved into new premises in Perth and needed the meeting spaces working properly from day one. Five rooms were in scope — four eight-person meeting rooms and one 16-person boardroom — plus centralised AV equipment, room scheduling panels outside each door and a CCTV system.
Focus AV was engaged to design, supply and install the lot as a single consistent standard rather than five rooms built one at a time.
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The challenge
Five rooms, two different sizes, one experience. Staff had to be able to walk into any of them and drive it the same way.
- Varied requirements across rooms of different capacities, all served from shared central equipment.
- A considerable investment to justify. The specification had to earn its budget rather than pad it.
- Room to grow. Whatever went in had to scale as Linkforce added people and spaces.
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The solution
Every room runs the same platform on a Logitech Tap with a Lenovo I5-1145G7 compute unit, so there is nothing to learn moving between rooms.
- Displays: Samsung QB85B 85" commercial panels on wall brackets.
- Video: Logitech Rally Ultra PTZ cameras.
- Audio: Q-Sys 4.5" low-profile in-ceiling PoE speakers paired with Audio-Technica beamforming array microphones, so people are picked up wherever they sit rather than wherever the microphone is.
- Control and processing: Q-Sys Core Nano DSP and AV controllers, centrally racked and licensed.
- Scheduling: Logitech Tap Room Schedulers mounted outside each room.
A CCTV system was installed alongside the AV, and the central rack was commissioned and handed over configured rather than simply left connected.
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The outcome
Linkforce gets the same meeting the same way in every room — press once and the room joins. Beamforming pickup and ceiling audio mean remote participants hear the room properly instead of whoever happens to be nearest the mic.
The scheduling panels ended the walk-around: staff can see at a glance which rooms are free. Because processing and control sit centrally on Q-Sys, adding rooms later extends the existing system instead of starting a new one.
Linkforce reported the installation met and exceeded what they had asked for, and the system slotted straight into daily operations.
