Alanson Media gave McMaster Innovation Park one plug-and-play standard across every meeting space: walk in, cast your screen, start your Teams or Zoom call. From divisible rooms to the executive boardroom, it works the same way every time.
Client: McMaster Innovation Park, Hamilton, Ontario. Designed, installed and commissioned by Alanson Media; completed September 2026.
McMaster Innovation Park is home to researchers, startups and established companies, and its rooms are booked by people walking in for the first time. Each room had its own connections, controls and steps, hybrid meetings were inconsistent, and the divisible rooms didn’t follow the walls. The goal: one standard user experience in every room. Walk in, cast your screen, start your call.
Share a screen in seconds from a laptop, tablet or phone.
Meet on the platform you already use.
The same Crestron panel layout and presets everywhere.
Standardized racks, a central patch panel, and every cable labelled to AVIXA F501.01.
A four-bay space where each bay is its own room and the walls open into two-, three- or four-bay rooms. A Crestron CP4 with two TSW-770 touch panels combines the room in one tap, and the projectors and audio follow the walls. Each bay keeps its own AirMedia, six Laia C-Pro Infinity AI-tracking cameras cover the room, and Biamp TesiraFORTE with an EX-USB bridge in every bay puts the room mics into the call.
Four Biamp Parlé beamtracking ceiling microphones steer to whoever is speaking, and a Huddly L1 AI camera frames the table. Nothing on the table, clear audio for the far end.
Two rooms combine around a ViewSonic 105-inch 5K 21:9 interactive touchscreen that shows content and remote participants side by side. A Huddly Crew system with C1 cameras uses three AI-directed cameras to cut to whoever is speaking.
The same plug-and-play standard in a smaller footprint, with an 86-inch LG display and a Biamp VBC 2800 all-in-one video bar.
Same casting, same panel, same steps.
Teams or Zoom, every room is certified and ready.
Four bays alone or together at the tap of a button.
A documented, labelled install IT can maintain.
New spaces plug into the same standard, and MIP has asked us back for the next phase.
The takeaway: First-time users don’t read instructions. When every room works the same way, hybrid meetings stop depending on who happens to know the system — and support calls drop with them.
