The boardroom is where deals are made, strategies are set, and your company's brand is on full display. Yet in countless Calgary offices, the most important room in the building is also the most technologically unreliable. Cables that don't connect, microphones that cut out, video calls that freeze at the worst possible moment—these failures don't just cause frustration, they erode confidence.
At Cave Integration, we design and install professional boardroom AV systems that simply work, every time. By integrating best-in-class hardware from Crestron, Logitech, Shure, Barco, BirdDog, and KeyDigital, we create meeting environments that are intuitive to operate, technically flawless, and worthy of your organization's reputation.
The Anatomy of a Professional Boardroom
A high-performance boardroom is built on four integrated pillars: control, display, audio, and video conferencing. When these systems are designed to work together from the ground up, the technology becomes invisible and the focus stays on the meeting.
Control: Crestron
The foundation of any serious boardroom is a **Crestron** control system. Crestron acts as the central intelligence, unifying every subsystem—displays, audio, lighting, shading, and video conferencing—into a single, intuitive touchscreen interface.
With one press of a "Meeting Start" button, the Crestron system can lower the motorized projection screen, dim the overhead lights, connect to the scheduled Teams or Zoom call, and route the laptop's presentation to all displays simultaneously. At meeting's end, a single "End Meeting" button reverses everything. This eliminates the fumbling with multiple remotes and input switches that plagues poorly designed boardrooms.
Display: Barco and KeyDigital
For the primary display wall, we deploy **Barco** ClickShare presentation systems alongside large-format commercial displays or laser projectors. Barco ClickShare allows any meeting participant to wirelessly share their screen to the room's display in one click, with no cables, no drivers, and no IT support required.
For complex multi-display environments and AV over IP distribution, we integrate **KeyDigital** matrix switchers and signal processors. KeyDigital's enterprise-grade hardware ensures zero-latency, pixel-perfect 4K signal routing to every display in the room, regardless of the source or the distance involved.
Audio: Shure
Audio is the most critical and most frequently neglected component of a boardroom. A participant who can't be heard clearly is effectively not in the meeting. We deploy **Shure's Microflex Advance** series, including the MXA920 and MXA925 ceiling array microphones.
These remarkable devices use advanced beamforming technology and Shure's proprietary IntelliMix DSP to automatically focus on the person speaking, while simultaneously suppressing HVAC noise, keyboard clicks, and paper shuffling. Remote participants hear every word with crystal clarity, as if they were seated at the table. The ceiling-mounted design keeps the table surface completely clean and uncluttered.
Video Conferencing: Logitech and BirdDog
For the camera system, we deploy **Logitech Rally Bar** all-in-one video bars for mid-sized boardrooms, providing exceptional auto-framing that keeps the active speaker centered in frame. For larger, more demanding environments—such as hybrid broadcast studios or executive boardrooms requiring broadcast-quality video—we integrate **BirdDog** PTZ cameras. BirdDog cameras transmit full-NDI video over standard Ethernet, eliminating the need for dedicated SDI cabling runs and integrating seamlessly into the Crestron control ecosystem.
Designed for Calgary's Hybrid Work Reality
Calgary's business landscape has permanently shifted toward hybrid work. A boardroom that only serves in-person attendees is no longer sufficient. Every system we design is built with the remote participant as a first-class citizen—ensuring that the experience of joining a meeting from home is as clear and professional as being in the room itself.
Elevate your boardroom from a source of frustration to a competitive advantage. Contact Cave Integration today at 825-460-0342 or info@caveintegration.ca to schedule a commercial AV consultation for your Calgary office.