AREC at ISE 2025 — Hall 2 Neighbourhood

With over a thousand exhibitors, there are just as many reasons to visit the ISE 2025. Make the most of your visit by starting your journey in AREC’s booth 2U130 in Hall 2, where you will find versatile hybrid conferencing and education technologies for every vertical market. The neighbourhood around our booth is the perfect starting point for any technology enthusiast and system integrator. You can combine the different brands in the area with AREC to achieve complete solutions for all needs. For instance:

• i3Connect — a brand focused on interactive displays for education. Use them as video sources for AREC Media Stations and make the teaching more impactful.

  
  

• Airtame — a brand focused on collaboration and connectivity tools. Connect AREC Media Stations to Airtame Hubs to bring the benefits of switchable multi-source layouts with graphics and more to Teams, Zoom, and other conferencing apps.

  
  

• Temas Technology — a manufacturer of smart digital lecterns. Temas’s interactive content tools work seamlessly with AREC’s automatic multisource capture, recording, streaming, and backup functions. Together, they create a streamlined and cutting-edge solution for Higher Education and Governmental users that is integrated with various VCMS and CDN platforms.

  
  

There are two more reasons to start your visit at AREC’s booth this year. Stay tuned for a sneak peek at one of our exciting new products in our next post, and make sure to reserve your meeting early via the following link: https://calendar.app.google/iM6U3MQaMpEHwC6z9

ADENA Hack: How to use layouts for more effective presentations and conferencing?

Layout is an essential feature of all AREC Media Stations. All our models come with a number of preconfigured layouts that can be used to quickly set up the devices for all sorts of usage scenarios. However, to make the most of layouts, you may want to customise them for your specific case. You can do so easily through either the Online Director web interface or the Layout Editor app, both of which we have explained in the previous ADENA Hacks. 

In this post, we will use the Layout Editor app to show you a few ideas that you can try with your own Media Station.

Content source parameters: X: 0, Y: 12.50, W: 75, H: 75. Letterbox aspect ratio.

First source parameters: X: 75, Y: 12.50, W: 25, H: 75. Fit to height aspect ratio.

When you want to display your computer content and have a clear image of the presenter, e.g. for presentations and webinars, you can try this very simple layout. Its advantage is in how efficiently it uses the available space and maintains clean proportions. It leaves you enough space to add logos and backgrounds on the upper and lower thirds without impacting your content or presenter visibility.

For example, here is how we use this layout:

Like the source clarity, but need more space for messages? Consider making a few slight changes to this layout:

Content source parameters: X: 1.25, Y: 17.50, W: 72.50, H: 72.50. Letterbox aspect ratio.

First source parameters: X: 73.75, Y: 17.50, W: 25, H: 36.25. Fit to height aspect ratio.

This layout’s advantage is in the free space under the first source. As all AREC Media Stations allow uploading 10 overlays and 10 backgrounds, and, in some models, up to 20 each, you can use this space to display all sorts of elements: logos, advertisements, announcements, product images, upcoming speaker photos, textual overlays generated through the Online Director web interface, and more. The extra bit of space on the left can be used to wrap your content in a frame for emphasis or to fit your organisation’s style. Here is an example:

Need to show more than 2 sources, but the concept suits you? Here is another idea you can try:

Content source parameters: X: 17.50, Y: 27.50, W: 65.00, H: 65.00. Letterbox aspect ratio.

First source parameters: X: 2.50, Y: 2.50, W: 25.00, H: 25.00. Letterbox aspect ratio.

Second source parameters: X: 72.50, Y: 2.50, W: 25.00, H: 25:00. Letterbox aspect ratio.

When you have two presenters, or when there is a product that you want to be visible during the presentation, consider creating a layout like this. It gives priority to content and leaves enough canvas space to fill it with useful information: logos, topics, URLs, speaker and product names, and more. Here is how we use this layout:

And most importantly, you can implement all of these layout ideas and more simultaneously on your AREC Media Station! Combine them with overlays and backgrounds, switch between them easily using themes, and make your videos stand out.

If you’d like to know more about layouts, overlays, backgrounds and themes, we invite you to check out the following ADENAcademy lessons, all available for free:

• Level B, Lesson 9 - Overlays and backgrounds on AREC Media Stations, part 1 - how to upload and create them

  
  

• Level B, Lesson 10 - Overlays and backgrounds on AREC Media Stations, part 2 - how to mix them into themes and overview of theme 

  
  

• Level B, Lesson 11 - Import and export of configuration on AREC Media Stations and the Layout Editor App tutorial

And, as always, if you have any questions or want to know more about AREC and its features, please contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to assist you!

ADENA Hack: How to find information and resources for AREC and RADA?

As a brand focused on creating a straightforward user experience ecosystem, we provide a plethora of marketing and educational materials, software, and other resources for free, concentrated in the same place. You can find these materials directly on our website www.a-dena.com, where they are divided into sections.

The first section, ‘Products’, lists out all current AREC and RADA products. All products are divided into categories: stations, tracking systems, cameras, and accessories. For each product, there is a special page with its defining features and hyperlinks to datasheets and other materials.

The next section, ‘Solutions’ is divided into categories for the 5 primary vertical markets that AREC and RADA products are most used in: Education, Government, Corporate, Healthcare, and Events. Each section contains some of the key advantages that AREC systems offer to users in this market and links to relevant case studies. This section also has a page for our ‘Technology Partners’ — integrated VCMS platforms and microphone discussion systems. These integrations open up new ways of using the products together and streamline user experience.

Case studies, posts, webinars, and other news can be found in the ‘News and Events’ section. Click 'News' to see posts on all topics in the same place. You can use tags to filter posts by product categories, names, vertical markets, and technologies. Click ‘Webinar Videos’ to access all our past webinars in the same place.

Our ‘Resources’ section contains all sorts of valuable information for you:

• Open the ‘Technical Information’ page to access datasheets, manuals, and guides. Everything is divided into categories for your convenience. If a material is available, it is marked with ‘✓’ and can be clicked on, and if not, it will be marked as ‘✗’.

  
  

• Navigate to ‘Firmware & Applications’ to download updates or software for your AREC and RADA products. You can check the latest version available for your device, as well as release notes on this page. Before updating your devices, take a look at the Firmware Update Policy at the top of this page — this document was made to explain and simplify the update process. To download any material, click the ‘Firmware download’ or ‘Application download’ button, and fill out the form. This will open the Google Drive folder where all firmware and applications are divided into two folders: one for cameras, and another for stations.

  
  

• ‘ADENA Hacks’ is our monthly blog about useful tips and tricks for AREC and RADA products and various AV technologies. You can use tags to filter posts by product categories, names, vertical markets, and technologies.

  
  

• A variety of product videos, training videos, teasers and more can be found in ‘Product Videos’ and ‘Training Videos’ pages. Alternatively, you can watch all of our videos on the ADENA Limited YouTube channel.

  
  

• Open ‘Catalogues’ to look through and download available brochures, comparison tables and more.

  
  

In the ‘For Partners’ section, you will find our free training course called ‘ADENAcademy’. You can find more information about what this course will teach you in our post about it. You can click ‘Project Registration’ to register your projects with AREC and RADA devices and make it possible for our team to protect your work. Clicking ‘Partners access’ will take you to our NAS. You can create an account by asking your ADENA sales manager. Account holders can download editable versions of all materials, product images in the original resolution, access our sales kit, and more. Lastly, this section also contains a link to ‘ARECloud’ - AREC’s free cloud-based control and preview platform for Media Stations. More information about ARECloud is available in our previous posts on it: here and here.

To get in touch with our team, simply open the ‘Contact us’ page and fill out the form. Alternatively, text us through the live chat function. It is managed purely by our sales and technical team, so you will always be talking to a human.

If you want to see how AREC and RADA products work live, discuss their applications, or anything else, you can request a meeting by filling out the form via the ‘Request a Live Demo’ section. A member of our team will then contact you to confirm the meeting subject, time, and meeting platform.

Last, but not least, make sure to subscribe to our newsletter! We are sending a monthly newsletter called the ADENA Journal, a digest with case studies, ADENA Hacks, and other product news.

That is all for this time! Please feel free to reach out to us at www.a-dena.com at any time for advice, support, or anything else our team can help you with. We are looking forward to hearing from you!