Types of Rooms
There are several types of Teams Rooms being deployed which are all built around the size of the room and the use of the space. These include:
Size of a Teams Room
- 2 Person Huddle Room
- 4-6 Person Room
- 8-12 Person Meeting Room
- 10-20 Person Boardroom
- Presentation Space
- Event Space
- Town Hall Space
- All Hands Area
- Divisible Rooms
- Teams Labs
Equipment Considerations
- Size of the room
- Furthest viewer
- Audio coverage
- Camera zoom requirements
- Microphone requirements
- BYOD requirements
- HDMI ingest
- Speaker requirements
- Control systems
- Repeater screens
Microsoft Teams Room Examples
The type of MTR rooms depends on your requirements and set up. Most businesses require a mixture of teams rooms ranging from simple 2 person booths all the way up to 100 plus person training and event spaces. These rooms all have to accommodate both the amount of people and the demographics of the room.
2 Person MTR
Huddle spaces and booths are now key places for businesses to communicate. The days of plugging in wirers and figuring how make calls are over, users now just want to press “join” to initiate a call. Wide lens cameras are required for users that sit close to the camera, audio pick up only needs to cover 4-5 square meters.
4-6 Person Meeting Room
Most business meetings take place in rooms of 4-6 person in size. In these rooms the participants must be able to interact with both in other in room and remote participants alike. Similar to the 2 person huddle rooms an all in one bar and screen if a perfect solution for this size. Again the most important aspect is being able to use the one button join feature to start a meeting instantly without any confusion or IT assistance.
Teams Room Control Panel
8-12 Person MTR’s
As the room gets larger more focus needs to go into the individual items of kit. Long lens cameras and audio that is able to cover the whole space needs to be considered. The MTR will glue these pieces of kit together, allowing them to operate in a Teams Room environment.
12-20 Person Rooms
At this size the Teams device will almost certainly only be the central point equipment connects to, rather than an all in one solution. Media bars and even single manufacturer solutions will often no longer have the full coverage required.
For a true Teams room it is essential to select only Teams certified components that have been tested to work with each other. As well as the all in one manufacturers such as Yealink, Neat, Poly and Logitech other electronic producers specialise in various aspects of the room i.e. Shure for microphones, Crestron for control.
20+ Person Rooms
Solutions for this size of space will always be bespoke and the design will focus on the main purpose of the room i.e. a Presentation Space for large events, training rooms in a class room style layout, and divisible rooms which can combine to create one large space to name a few.
Joining a Teams call however will be almost certainly a given in most users minds so the integration of a Teams Room into the final solution is essential. How this is controlled and the end user engages with the system should be a consideration at the initial design stage.