What is Divisible Room

Generally, the utilization of multiple rooms interconnected through partitioning systems, such as movable walls, glass dividers, or folding doors, allowing for separate utilization while enabling combination as needed, is referred to as a divisible conference room. This design permits the concurrent operation of multiple independent meetings or activities without interference. Such flexibility enhances the versatility and efficiency of the conference room, as it can be adjusted in size and layout based on varying requirements, thereby offering an enhanced meeting experience and adaptability. The division and integration of multiple rooms are distinctive features of conference spaces that cater to versatile applications.

This article will present the excellent solutions provided by Yealink's divisible rooms to meet various requirements and scenarios.

Yealink Divisible Room Solution

Yealink's divisible room solution is built upon the flexible preset switching capabilities of the AP08 DSP and the powerful sound pickup functionality of the CM50. With the integration of Room Designer, this system allows for customizable configurations and automatic solution design. By incorporating partition sensors, it facilitates seamless and automatic room partitioning and merging operations. This comprehensive solution ensures optimized functionality, streamlined management, and effortless adaptability for versatile meeting environments.

Here is a typical divisible conference room utilizing Yealink's solution, which can be separated into two individual rooms. All Yealink microphones and speakers are connected to the Yealink AP08 DSP, which manages the audio signals in the entire conference room. Through the preset switching feature of the DSP, the room partitioning and merging operations are executed seamlessly. This audio solution can be complemented with Yealink MVC solution for single-panel conference room control, allowing adjustment of EQ parameters based on the meeting status. Experience enhanced control and optimized audio performance with Yealink's comprehensive solution.

Yealink Divisible Room: One-Stop Intelligent Dante Solution

Challenge: Complex Design and Deploy Processes

To ensure optimal functionality of divisible rooms, meticulous planning is essential for each room's design before and after partitioning. A custom configuration must be devised for each room combination, ensuring independent capability for audio and video conferencing. The design process entails the simultaneous consideration of diverse client requirements and meeting demands in various spaces, resulting in a high level of complexity.

The calibration work following project deployment is equally intricate. Each room combination possesses distinct acoustic environments, presenting a significant challenge for a meticulous and highly skilled acoustic engineer. The process of identifying suitable audio configurations for each room and implementing them accordingly requires a substantial amount of calibration work.

Yealink Divisible Room: Full Dante-Supported Solution

The Yealink SkySound series audio devices offer ceiling-mounted microphones, ceiling speakers, and audio processors. This comprehensive solution fully supports the standard Dante/AES67 protocol. By simply connecting the audio devices to the same network and powering them through a PoE (Power over Ethernet) switch that supports IEEE 802.3at, the physical deployment of the devices can be easily accomplished. The Yealink Room Designer software allows for visual link configuration and audio parameter adjustments. Regardless of the number of audio devices required in the system, deployment and configuration can be efficiently achieved using the aforementioned method.

Yealink Divisible Room: Auto Design

The Yealink system supports an automated divisible room solution design. This feature rapidly generates a comprehensive design incorporating the quantity and placement of devices, as well as the device connections, based on the room information provided by the user.

By utilizing the automated design feature in Yealink Room Designer software, selecting a divisible room triggers the rapid generation of a room design based on the user's inputted room information. You have the flexibility to modify the allocation methodology for the AP08 analog interface within the generated logic or proceed with the default logic shown in the diagram below to initiate your design.

By utilizing the AP08 DSP preset feature, various room configurations can be actively defined, enabling seamless switching of DSP settings for different room combinations. For instance, in a divisible room divided into A and B rooms, it requires audio link setups for 'Room A,' 'Room B,' and 'Combined Room A+B.' The more divisible rooms and complex room pairing logic, the theoretically greater number of preset configurations needed.

Yealink AP08 DSP incorporates dual USB interfaces for built-in preset configurations, enabling users to conveniently design and configure settings for both 'Divide' and 'Merge' states.

Yealink Divisible Room: Acoustic Adoptive

The Yealink Acoustic Adaptation feature caters to the unique acoustic conditions of each divided and merged room by automatically adjusting accordingly. When it comes to the rooms before and after merging, Yealink System has the ability to utilize the Acoustic Adaptation feature to individually optimize the acoustics of each combination. This process can be effortlessly completed through simple operations. After a few minutes of automated calibration, you will obtain automatically matched audio settings for various preset combinations in both merged and divided conference rooms.

During this process, the microphone and DSP in the system are synchronized and configured to ensure that each algorithm module receives the correct reference signal, thereby guaranteeing the audio quality of the conference.

Yealink Divisible Room: Partition Sensors and Automatic Control

By deploying the Yealink YPS20 sensor, automatic merging and splitting operations can be achieved in rooms. The YPS20 is a proximity-aware photodetector that can sense obstructions within a range of 2.5m in front of the device. This can be used to detect physical partitions in divisible rooms. When the physical partition disappears, the YPS20 communicates with the AP08, triggering the predefined actions for splitting or merging, enabling automatic splitting and merging processes.

Yealink AP08 DSP: More Channels, More Flexible

Challenge: Requirements for Customization

Each divisible room, owing to its inherent flexibility, possesses a unique identity. Designing such rooms demands not only individual analysis of each divided space but also consideration of the actual requirements when merged into various combinations. This calls for a highly adaptable approach to ensure the seamless realization of every combination.

Yealink AP08 DSP: Flexible Settings

Yealink's divisible room solution allows flexible audio connectivity between various devices. Leveraging Room Designer software, the audio link among the customizable equipment can be freely configured, enabling the adjustment of algorithmic processing modules to meet the personalized requirements of different meeting spaces.

Yealink AP08: Powerful Processing Ability

Yealink AP08 offers a variety of optional interfaces and powerful audio processing capabilities. With 16x16 Dante channels and multiple analog audio interfaces, it meets the compatibility requirements for various devices.

Yealink DSP is designed with two USB-B interfaces, allowing a single AP08 to directly fulfill the audio system and conferencing host connections in at least two meeting rooms (using a Dante-USB adapter enables deployment for three or more combined/divided meeting rooms with a single AP08). By utilizing a matrix mixer, the input and output signals transmitted through the USB interfaces from conference hosts in two rooms can be allocated to different channels, achieving a streamlined audio link design for divisible rooms. Each AP08 DSP features two automatic mixers, providing threshold capabilities to filter out interfering noise within a specified range.

Yealink CM50: Crystal Clear, High Fidelity

Challenge: Noise and Reverberation

Inevitably, various interference signals exist in conference rooms, such as air conditioning noise, neighboring room sound leakage, and room reverberation. Eliminating the impact of these sounds significantly enhances the conference room experience. In addition to utilizing soundproofing materials and other architectural measures, the pickup level of microphones within the room plays a crucial role in enhancement.

Yealink CM50: Beamforming Microphone

Yealink CM50 leverages beamforming technology to simulate a highly directional pickup beam. With Yealink's algorithm, it allocates eight size-adjustable and position-variable pickup zones. The application of beamforming significantly reduces background noise, echo, and other sources of interference, ensuring a prominent focus on the primary sound source. Whether in conference rooms, training venues, or remote collaboration environments, the CM50 microphone with beamforming technology delivers clear and natural audio, enabling participants to listen and communicate effectively.

Yealink CM50: AI Noise Reduction

Yealink combined AI noise suppression module with reverberation cancellation algorithms to Yealink's custom-trained AI Sound Optimization Model, cut out background noise and echo, so your voice stays clear and sharp, even in noisy settings. You get crisp, clear sound with minimal loss, no matter the environment.

Yealink Solution Expansion

Native Teams Solution

Yealink's comprehensive solution has obtained Microsoft Teams certification, ensuring seamless integration and interoperability with Teams meeting rooms. Together with Yealink's native MVC (Microsoft Video Conferencing System) solution, deeply integrated with the Teams meeting platform, it enables rapid deployment and seamless integration.

Auto EQ Feature

Yealink's Auto EQ feature, a crucial aspect of the deep integration between Yealink's audio system and Microsoft Teams meeting rooms, allows the audio system to automatically switch EQ settings based on the Teams meeting status.