How to shrink your business carbon footprint with Signagelive and ClickShare

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Perhaps best of all, if you currently don’t use ClickShare wireless video conferencing solutions, but would like to, you have an exceptionally cost-effective opportunity to do so. If you’re using competitor video conference devices and they’re nearing end-of-life, you can turn them into Barco in exchange for a generous discount on new ClickShare Base Units. 

So, if you do successfully adopt this Signagelive and ClickShare solution, what can it help you do to shrink your business’s environmental footprint?

•  Use less hardware equipment

Most obviously, the solution can help ensure that you use fewer carbon-emitting hardware products, as you won’t need any additional screens, media players or on-premise servers.

• Cut back on resource

You also won’t need to manage on-premise server updates and maintenance for your digital signage. This means you’ll save money, but also, importantly, energy, as no-one will have to travel and physically come in to check on your servers.

•  Reduce in-person meetings

You can reduce the number of in-person all-staff and team meetings, which in and of themselves exacerbate businesses’ environmental footprint due to the travel involved. The all-in-one Signagelive-powered solution lets you communicate day-to-day with staff and send out updates to a selected team in one meeting room and/or notifications for all staff across every meeting room.

• Improve meeting room management

Most businesses waste money – and increase their energy consumption – by mismanaging meeting rooms. When there are meeting clashes, companies’ knee-jerk reaction is to hire external meeting room spaces, and ask invitees to travel to attend them, which again, impacts your business’s overall energy consumption.

By enabling staff to access the company calendar on-screen, before and after meetings, you can make it easy for teams to see, at a glance, room availability for the next meeting. It’s a simple way to enlist the help of all your staff to maximise office space management. 

•  Scale back prep sessions and follow-up meetings

In-person meetings can often involve preparatory huddle sessions, and lead to – yep, you guessed it – further follow-up meetings! This impacts your business’s carbon emissions by forcing staff to travel in again and, of course, use your screens again.

The benefit of having an integrated digital signage solution is that, prior to any meeting, you can quickly scroll on-screen through key discussion points and strategy, so everyone is on the same page. Similarly, post-meeting, you can quickly share meeting minutes and action items to save everyone from having to meet again. It means you can actually pretty much switch off your screens and limit usage to approximate meeting times.

• Share your data and systems on-screen

With an all-in-one meeting room communications solution, there’s no need to access data, business tools or even third-party back-office systems from other devices. You can cut down your device energy consumption, and securely display the latest company insights on-screen from any business intelligence tool, before or after meetings. You also have the potential to work with Signagelive and Barco on integrating the back-office systems you use, so you can access and display them via the Signagelive platform.