Tips for choosing a Wireless Presentation System for your office

One of the criteria you need to look at when selecting a system is data security. Businesses should always be aware of how sensitive their data is. This involves data that is presented in meetings as well as data stored on servers on the company network.

Purely hardware-based wireless presentation systems that are specially tailored to the business environment provide much better security for such confidential data. This is because no software needs to be installed. The wireless HDMI transmission is also encrypted so that hackers cannot intercept the signal and view the content of the presentation. The device also uses its own wireless network, meaning that no connection to the company network is necessary. BenQ InstaShow™ has been designed for exactly this purpose - and is the only purely hardware-based solution currently available that doesn’t require any software to be installed!

Software-dependent solutions, on the other hand, are extremely insecure since the device must be connected to the company network. This gives hackers an attack vector. Software must necessarily be installed, which in itself represents a risk.

As well as data security, you need to think about which devices will be used. Do you mainly give presentations using your laptop? Since laptops usually use an HDMI connection, you will be familiar with the tangle of cables on the meeting table. Flexibility, dynamism and efficiency are not really words that spring to mind here. BenQ InstaShow, on the other hand, is a purely hardware-based solution that receives input directly from the laptop.

But laptops are no longer the only device being used to give presentations. Smartphones and tablets that don’t have an HDMI port often need to make use of apps to enable smooth data transfer.

Visitors to your business can also benefit from InstaShow: In the spirit of BYOD, business partners can give a presentation using their own devicesand this without a WiFi connection, without any additional software, and without any cables!

It is also important to consider the type of content you will be presenting. For PowerPoint, images, diagrams and tables: Both software-dependent and purely hardware-based solutions can be used for this kind of content.

But what about video content? As a business, you need to consider resolution, framerate, and signal security. Software-dependent wireless HDMI presentation systems rely on your company infrastructure - i.e. the network load and server capacity. This means thatthese solutions cannot guarantee stable and consistently good performance.

Hardware-based solutions, on the other hand, behave very differently. They use their hardware to transmit the video signal from the transmitter to the receiver. InstaShow features smooth Full HD playback and a special video mode that has been specifically developed for perfect video streaming.

Pure hardware-based wireless HDMI presentation systems come with yet more advantages. For example, unlike software-dependent solutions, they do not generate any additional network traffic that can slow down your company Internet connection. You also avoid putting any additional strain on your devices. This is because all the necessary legwork is done by the InstaShow itself. Since your device is not being slowed down by any additional software, the transfer remains stable at all times.

A further aspect to consider with software-dependent solutions is the power of your device. If your device runs slow, they data transfer is also affected. If there is also a lot of other traffic on your network, then the signal will not be at all reliable. Pure hardware-based solutions like InstaShow are not affected by these problems.

Thanks to the hardware-based design using HDMI, BenQ InstaShow WDC10 is the ideal companion for security-conscious, modern businesses looking to get into BYOD.