By Mical Imbukwa
COVID-19 disrupted many traditional social patterns in 2020 and 2021 but out of the crisis grew new opportunities for digital transformation and ICT infrastructure development. From an individual to an organizational level, digital technology continues to create new values and business patterns around the world.
Huawei was not exempted in the crisis and as they adopted to the new norm of working from home, a number of discoveries were made. Key among the discoveries was the fact that, as employees worked from home, the digital shift helped free them from time and energy wasted in meeting rooms as well as business trips to different countries, research centers, and representative offices.
Amazingly, while the traffic of virtual office services increased six fold, the expenses reduced by 28%. This now brought in the user demand for new collaboration tools while working remotely, in order to enhance productivity. Huawei got to task and yesterday, the Huawei IdeaHub, a brand-new intelligent collaboration product was launched.
According to Huawei Kenya CEO Will Meng, the Huawei IdeaHub series is designed to help people work and learn anytime, anywhere, without time and space constraints, productively and efficiently. It intelligently helps one to transform, upgrade and digitize the office or classroom.
Huawei IdeaHub is a combination of technology and art.
“The product and interaction experience design has led to a trend of technological innovation and won recognition from many professional organizations such as, Germany’s iF DESIGN AWARD 2021, Germany’s Red Dot Design Award 2020 and the Global Team Collaboration Device Innovation Award in Frost & Sullivan, a world-renowned consulting company,” he said.
The CEO noted that free experimental activities to allow customers to interact with the Idea hub have been carried out since last year, and also feedback to foster the development and modification of the product done.
“Since the beginning of the year, the Huawei IdeaHub have been released in different countries around the world, receiving positive accolades from customers globally. Closer home, we have received 1984 IdeaHub orders in Africa and we foresee the number growing tremendously,” Meng said.
Video Conferencing is now the norm during the pandemic, and IdeaHub is perfectly suited for this, being able to install any video conferencing app, coming with a high quality camera with zoom and multiple microphones that automatically zooms in and tracks the speaker.
The IdeaHub is a productivity tool for the smart office & learning institutions which bundles intelligent writing, High Definition (HD) video conferencing, and wireless sharing. An IF Design Award 2021 winner, IdeaHub is designed to suit any environment effortlessly turning conference rooms, executive offices, and open areas into smart spaces. ‘HUAWEI IdeaHub Board’, emphasizes on its high efficiency and low-latency with 4K resolution display, supporting both Windows and Android OS.
With its stylish design and convenience in usage and installation, HUAWEI IdeaHub Board is targeted at medium-scale offices, SMEs, educational and health institutions in Kenya, to enhance the capabilities of business and education sectors, in line with HUAWEI’s mission to push forward digital transformation in Kenya through intelligent innovations.
Huawei IdeaHub Board is available both in 65” and 86” size with 4K resolution, both models come with dual operating systems: Windows and Android OS. The smartboard screen delivers a smooth writing experience with an ultra-low writing latency. It is also complemented with AI functions, enabling intelligent text and graphic recognition.
