Crestron Electronics announced Collab Engine, the latest addition to its unified communications offerings. The solution serves to bring content, collaboration and control together in one device. The Collab Engine is Microsoft Teams Rooms-Certified and works to power multiple spaces on one platform in an effort to remove the need for a room-by-room approach.

Crestron said that the Collab Engine is designed to support a range of rooms and associated needs with native integration of Crestron Intelligent Video and Intelligent Audio, allowing for spaces designed around the specific use case. Camera coverage keeps participants in frame as the conversation moves around the rooms, and audio is tuned to the layout and acoustics, so remote participants can always hear clearly.

The Collab Engine is based on the Android operating system and a device built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform or enterprise security and delivering familiar IT management frameworks. With two operating modes, IT teams can choose between a native or an open experience to support the preferred approach of their users. Microsoft Teams Rooms mode brings a native Microsoft Teams experience with one-touch join. Crestron AirMedia technology mode delivers wireless presentation and conferencing for bring-your-own-device connections across platforms.

The Collab Engine is available in two models – the Collab Engine 4100 and Collab Engine 4200. Both models include a Crestron 4-Series Control System that provides access to full room automation. The XiO Cloud technology operations management platform adds further support for centralized deployment, monitoring and management at scale. DM NVX AV-over-IP distribution is directly available on the Collab Engine 4200 for network-based distribution. Collab Engine will be available in Q1 2027 and joins the Collab family of products, following the introduction of the Collab Compute from earlier this year.

“IT teams are managing a wider variety of spaces than ever, and on top of that, user expectations for how these spaces should operate continue to grow. More than anything, organizations need a foundation they can trust,” said Brad Hintze, EVP of global customer success and marketing at Crestron. “Content, collaboration, and control were pillars we developed that shape how we design spaces. With the Collab Engine, we’ve brought those components together in one device to give IT leaders a platform that can scale to the volume of rooms they manage, adapt to the needs of those spaces, and meet the expectations of their everyday users.”