ILS News

• ILS launches 4 new podium products for teaching and presenting at Infocomm 2010.
• ILS releases software updates for ILS22
• ILS and HAIJIE bundle forces
• ILS strikes distribution deal with Lightspeed Classroom Audio Technologies
• ILS unveiled its new ILS12 mini-SpeakersCorner lectern at InfoComm 09
• MKB Top 100 Award for ILS

June 8, 2010, Las Vegas Infocomm -ILS launches 4 new podium products for teaching and presenting.

Targeting universities, hotels and Pro-AV system integrators.

Adding custom configurability for system integrators, the ILS24HX holds inside the system a 22" pen or touch display, a 12" touch panel for systems control, confidence monitor or teleprompter, a 5" panel area for integrating existing room control systems. The system is like a Swiss army knife, pull out what you need, close and lock the system totally, using identity card reader for secure access. The electrical lift and tilt mechanism allows users to find the best position; a 12U, 19" rack offers space for AV and PC equipment for presenting and streaming solutions. A special side drawer and the rotating 12" panel allow for seated use and ADA compliance. Similar features apply to the new slender version ILS16HX, with a 17" WACOM pen interactive monitor and same 12" side touch panel.

Despite high quality design and thick aluminum cladding, the systems are aggressively priced. System integrators have the opportunity to add a lot of value and move products frequently into universities and hotel meeting facilities.

The new HF versions are all-in-one complete turn-key solutions that large universities, meeting and training facility management easily implement themselves. HF versions come with interactive monitors, complete control systems and high quality audio integrated. ILS Room-Q supports remote assistance, management and streaming applications.

Added to the family is a budget podium version ILS20HJ for volume placements and a new 22" presenter lectern supported by the interactive sho-Q presentation delivery suite.

Assen, May 5th 2010 - ILS releases software updates for its presenter lectern system ILS22.

ILS releases software moving from 1.0 to 2.0 for ILSTranslator, improving speed and adding functionality and adding IP services to ILS22 Remote-Q. The required macros and .NET framework are now built into the software.

What is new in ILStranslator 2.0:

• System startup is faster and can be adapted via the ILS22Setup wizard.
• The system can be adapted to use an external PC instead of the standard embedded PC.
• In addition to control over a RS232 connection, the system can now also be controlled over a TCP/IP connection by the Remote-Q version 2.0 presentation and control software.
• Attached intelligent controllers can change the pedestal elevation over RS232 and TCP/IP, as well as other system and room control functions.
• ILS22Setup version 2.0 (the accompanying software system setup wizard) allows VAR's, ICT and A/V personnel to adapt the system environment, including RS232 and TCP/IP support.

Henk de Groot, CEO of ILS says: "We are proud to introduce our new Remote-Q software package. It complements our Sho-Q software, and it will allow you to streamline your event by setting up the presentations and allocated time-slots in advance. It will also let you control every aspect of the ILS22 and sho-Q remotely".

Remote-Q is an incredible tool that helps the ICT and A/V support personnel 'behind the podium'. Remote-Q provides support personnel with instant updates of what the presenter sees, and allows them to assist the presenter remotely and unobtrusively, without having to step/walk down to the lectern. Interaction is via RS232
or LAN (Wired or WiFi TCP/IP).

Remote-Q is licensed software and runs on any PC with Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows7.

Remote-Q features include:

1. Monitor the ILS22 status. ICT and A/V Presentation Support personnel see:
• what the current state of the ILS22 is (with respect to available and enabled buttons,
  audio volume, presentation slide nr, pedestal height etc).
• Which functions are performed locally or externally.
• Which button was pressed by the presenter.
• Which messages were returned by attached intelligent controllers.


2. ICT and A/V Presentation support personnel can exercise control remotely over the following features:
• Advance Slides on presenter request, forward or back.
• Exit the current presentation back to the presentation selection screen and logo screen or blank screen to the projector.
• Adjust pedestal height for the next presenter automatically via the Remote-Q presentation setup, or manually via the pedestal adjustment.
• Get a warning when the presenter is running out of presentation time, either via the system beeper or a music file.
• Send 1 or 2 automated messages to the presenter at preset % of allocated time slot. Also ad-hoc messages can be sent, becoming visible on the lectern.
• Kill a process or application on the lectern, e.g. to stop the presenter, or start the ILS Sho-Q presentation software (or restart it).
• Enable or disable buttons remotely so that the presenter can or can not use them. This includes (temporarily) disabling the touch screen.
• Adjust ILStranslator Setup parameters, such as all enable with one Room Control touch or enable drag and drop for Annotation.
• Set up a schedule for upcoming presenters, including presenter or presentation name, number of slides, presentation duration and requested pedestal height in inches or cm's. Remote-Q will automatically adjust to these parameters when the new presenter is about to go on stage.
• Load, Save or Print presentation setups for handout.

All software upgrades can be downloaded from our ILS22 Drivers and Software page

Beijing, PRC, November 19, 2009. - ILS and HAIJIE bundle forces as global suppliers of classroom education and conference presentation systems.

Intelligent Lectern Systems of Netherlands and HAIJIE Educational Equipment Company of Hebei Province in China agreed to share their technologies, product development and production facilities.
In the agreement ILS will add to its line HAIJIE’s new HJ-Y31 classroom lectern under its ILS brand and will it implement HAIJIE’s complete classroom remote assistance and surveillance system program suite, as the ILS “room-Q” system. ILS will market these products outside China and South East Asia.

In order to jumpstart market expansion into the conference and corporate markets, HAIJIE will add from ILS the ILS21 and ILS22 presenter systems along with ILS sho-Q multiple presentations delivery and control system under its own logo for marketing in China/South East Asia.

Together the companies will develop a successor to the ILS24 SpeakersCorner lectern, to add new AV control, Audio integration and security systems in a completely lockable and remotely controllable package, while maintaining product durability, styling and quality of workmanship in the original ILS design. The companies will market the product under their own label in their respective territories.

The agreement was signed in Beijing today in the presence of Dutch minister of trade, H.E. Frank Heemskerk and Dutch Ambassador in China, Mr. Rudolf Bekink.

Henk de Groot, ILS CEO commented:  “in HAIJIE we found a truly complementary partner that is thinking in similar strategic terms and that makes products exactly complementary to those of ILS. As leading producer, integrator and supplier in China of Classroom lecterns and control systems, HAIJIE is addressing the planned upgrade of 650000 (!) classrooms within the country. Their quality and scale of manufacturing allows us to respond to requests for bids in the secondary/college and university level education with an unbeatable value and completeness of the solutions ILS will be able to offer.  We have decided to integrate the highest quality components available in the market and European style product finish. We can continue to guarantee the durability and reliability of our lecterns to our high-end research, university and military customers. Yet under this cooperation we will be able to potentially cut the price of the ILS24 in half”.

Qihai Zhang, HAIJIE’s Managing Director added: “HAIJIE is proud to team up with ILS and lead up to a joint venture company for future development.  ILS provides us with a lot of global marketing skills, market knowledge, essential technology and access to AV channels worldwide. We can immediately integrate their presenter systems and sho-Q software to allow us to address the conference/hospitality and corporate markets that are now emerging in China. As a long time ISO9001 and ISO14001 company, we feel we can meet ILS’ quality demands effectively. Our 200 person skilled workforce in engineering, manufacturing and software development will be testimony to that. HAIJIE is ideally placed in a vibrant economic development zone with within the hour access to China’s major DOHEI and TIANJIN ports to ship goods anywhere. Our area is planned to become 12x as large within the next 10 years, securing our access to qualified labor”.

Under the agreement, ILS will adapt sho-Q to a Chinese language version and provide a license to HAIJIE to procure the ILS21 locally (this product was designed in the Netherlands and is already made in China). The remarkable ILS22 with its all touch multi function surface will remain to be manufactured in the north of the Netherlands according to mil spec and exported to China with a HAIJIE label and Chinese language labeled touch functions. ILS room-Q will include support for its ILS22. A new small AV station cabinet will be developed to complement other ILS lecterns (ILS12, ILS15, 16, 17, 19) and make them available under fully centralized remote assistance and monitoring control system. (Current ILS installations can be upgraded in future)

The new room-Q suite (Remote On-line Operation and Monitoring system) is a web based system for central AV assistance, central surveillance and alarm management, centralized administrative support, device performance tracking, status and maintenance scheduling, recording for e-learning and streaming purposes for all classrooms or business center rooms or conference meeting rooms that are supported from a distant centralized position. All assistance calls are automatically Queued and logged, any room not scheduled to be in use will trigger an alarm (locally a loud noise will set off, in the surveillance control room it pops up on the control screen for action, the camera will show what is going on instantly in that room) Central AV support can take control over the system of a classroom and have visual and audio connection established over IP automatically to help the teacher/presenter without needing to leave the desk. Depending on configuration central AV support can take over any operation of the lectern and connected systems.

The new ILS24 SpeakersCorner Lectern will be announced later in the year, but is said to include the full control system for audio, video, 3 input sources (VGA1 and VGA2 of internal PC + Notebook), has slide-out side tablets, one including a large touch monitor for room/lectern control with duplicate functions serving as confidence monitor and optionally as control system for an extern streaming studio. The central 17 or 19” height adjustable monitor will rise well above the compact lectern cabinet to provide comfortable pen or touch interaction, display options include standard 17” monitor with a separate high density writing tablet combined with touch and multi touch capabilities; it will support the SMART Sympodium ID370 with SMART Hub, WACOM PL series of 17” and 19” pen interactive tablets, and ELOtouch touch interactive monitors. The optional high spec audio system includes a cardioid gooseneck microphone, lavalier and portable wireless microphones, mixer and a 2 x 100 Watt Frequency shift low noise amplifier. When tablets and drawers are sliding in and the monitor lowered, the approx. 60 x 70 x 100 cm column is fully locked and takes little space.

The system will be available from HAIJIE in China and South East Asia and from ILS in the rest of the world.

For further information contact ILS through info@intelligentlecterns.com

Assen, November 8, 2009 - ILS strikes distribution deal with Lightspeed Classroom Audio Technologies

ILS adds market leader Lightspeed audio products to its catalog for bundling with its smaller lecterns mini-SpeakersCorner and ILS15 all-in-one systems for classrooms, boardrooms and break-out session rooms in hotels and business centers.

After experiencing the clarity in every corner of a class room with new sound field technology, teachers and lecturers have immediately felt the benefits of the latest NXT sound field expansion based products. Contrary to ordinary loudspeaker systems or those integrated in a whiteboard, the new technology will assure that for every student in the room the audio level will be the same, front or back, as if the teacher is standing right next to you. All from a single box.

Having come up with a extremely simple to install and to use system, Lightspeed Technologies out of Oregon has rapidly emerged as the market leader in the USA with its RedCAT system. School districts have started to place Redcats by the 100's in its schools, seeing clearly increased retention, effortless hearing and elimination of throat-related absenteeism of teachers. The sound is never interrupted when facing the whiteboard.

Next to adding the professional Lightspeed audio products to its SpeakersCorner lecterns line, ILS has become exclusive distributor for Lightspeed for the Benelux.

Henk de Groot, CEO of ILS commented: "I have been carrying a RedCAT in my car since this summer. Several events I participated in where speakers decided to do without microphone, the system came to the rescue, by simply placing the box in the back of the room and handing an infrared linked mini microphone on a pendant to the speaker. This is great technology. If I were a school principle I would certainly have one available for any teacher with a sour throat, it's installed within 2 minutes and it quiets down the class instantly"

Despite many white papers and research documented, ILS embarked on a project to formally test the technology to the primary school system in all of Friesland. Research has proven that when a different language is spoken
at home than taught in school, the results of improved understanding and retention are even more dramatic.

Follow this link for information, research documents and user feedback:
http://www.intelligentlecterns.com/ils_main/lightspeed.html

For the entire Lightspeed catalog, download from http://www.lightspeed-tek.com/product-downloads.aspx

Orlando, June 17, 2009 - ILS unveiled its new ILS12 mini-SpeakersCorner lectern for comfortable teaching and presenting during Infocomm 2009.

During Infocomm Intelligent Lectern Systems unveiled its new ADA compliant lectern, the ILS12 mini-SpeakersCorner. The user can choose from three touch display technologies, and can operate the system from an internal or external PC.

The system was demonstrated with the new sho-Q7 presentation and annotation system using the recently announced Wacom 19” pen-interactive display on the lectern’s VESA-mount, running from the integrated PC in the foot of its pedestal.

Directly under the display mount, the ILS12 provides controls for the
3-position tilt adjustment, cable management, and a USB hub.

There also is a straightforward up and down switch for the electrical wide-range height adjustment, accommodating both the seated user as well as the taller-than-average one.

The lectern sits on an all aluminum high quality sleek Powerlift pillar with internal cable management, and it is positioned at a comfortable 12° angle. In the foot itself you will find an auxiliary function box in which (optionally) an industrial PC  can be mounted.

Due to its annotation and presenting strengths, the ILS12 combination as featured during Infocomm is a very cost-effective comfortable system suited for use in education and training markets.
The ILS12 is equipped with the Wacom 19” pen-interactive display, or alternatively with the new ELOtouch 22” APR touch display for fast touch interaction; furthermore it provides support to several other touch monitors such as the SMART Sympodium Dual Touch products.

ILS sho-Q7 is unique presentation software. It supports presenter-view slide control with a window for notes and the previous and upcoming slide, combined with a true live confidence monitor window. It allows for live annotation on existing slides, as well as on a temporary blank slide. All this on a single lectern monitor.  With one touch the user can get an overview of all the slides in a presentation, and any slide can be selected seamlessly from within multiple presentations.

Sho-Q7 is Windows 7 ready and separately available through www.intelligentlecterns.com

During Infocomm, the company also announced remote control of all features of its flagship ILS22 lectern. ILStranslator-remote lets an AV assistant control the lectern in an auditorium from a PC in the studio in the back. It can make room -, lectern- and presenter control functions available to the presenter, disable or override themFeatures like lectern height can be preset for each individual presenter with a touch of a button in the studio

A touch system upgrade for the ILS22 allows the 31” touch surface to provide drag & drop capabilities for the monitor area and its mouse pad region. Under this tempered glass surface you will find a full keyboard, as well as functional shortcuts and integrated room control buttons, which are etched in the glass around the 22”diagonal monitor area.
The total package is less than 3” thick.

Despite an overall lower visitor count during Infocomm’09, ILS experienced an increase in visitor interest by 60%  compared to the previous year.  The ILS22 enjoyed overwhelming interest because of its design statement and the unique combination of so many features in a single small footprint lectern solution. One client of ILS, AMX of Richardson TX, demonstrated new products using their ILS22in its Infocomm theatre.

May 1, 2009  – MKB Top 100 Award for ILS

Innovation: Sho-Q-box, lectern with large touch monitor.

After being placed in the Shell LiveWire top 200 list of innovative businesses, ILS now has earned a spot in the MKB top 100 of innovative businesses.

Intelligent Lectern Systems has three main goals: improving professionalism, productivity, and retention of information during formal and informal presentations.

Meetings can be much more efficient and productive by eliminating the need to switch PCs during the session. Highly improved support for and control of multimedia files within PowerPoint result in better presenting quality, and therefore better education.

This is why Intelligent Lectern Systems invented to sho-Q-box, a lectern with a large touch monitor. It allows for seamless transitions from one speaker to another, and one can switch from one presentation to the next within seconds.

www.syntens.nl (in Dutch)