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AMX Adds New Room Scheduling Features to Resource Management Suite (5/7/2007)

CEDIA UK Expo 2007

AMX, worldwide leader in automation and control, technology management and audio/video switching and distribution, has disclosed new features for the next version of its popular Resource Management Suite (RMS) - the most robust software platform available for managing and monitoring electronic equipment and scheduling meeting/class rooms.

RMS is an enterprise-grade family of software solutions enabling administrators and managers of AMX control systems to manage and monitor the audio/video (A/V) equipment installed in business, education, government, entertainment, broadcast, houses of worship and residential environments from one central location.

The software also allows users to schedule and track meeting/class rooms in a single building or across a campus using Microsoft Outlook/Exchange or AMX's web-based RMS Calendar. Often, however, impromptu meetings occur in available rooms that have not previously been scheduled. With RMS 3.1, meeting organisers will be able to enter room reservations into the RMS system on an ad hoc basis - a feature enhancement that fills a current void in the market and addresses a very significant user need.

Users will now be able to schedule such impromptu meetings from an AMX Modero Touch Panel installed inside or outside the room. Additionally, meeting attendees will be able to use the same Modero Touch Panel installed in the room to control its audio/video equipment and environmental elements or extend meeting room reservations on demand. In both scenarios, RMS will automatically update the room's schedule with Outlook/Exchange/RMS Calendars to reflect any changes to availability.

RMS 3.1 will also help minimize meeting intrusions and interruptions via its new virtual doorbell and digital signage option. By pressing a doorbell icon on a room's external Modero Touch Panel, its occupants will hear a doorbell wav file and see a popup on the internal Modero Touch Panel notifying them that someone has requested their attention. Further, when complete privacy is desired, meeting organizers will have the option to display "Do Not Disturb" signage on the external touch panel. RMS 3.1 will be available within 90 days.

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