#1 most frequent
United States of America
81.6%93 installations of 114
What is Crestron Fusion?
Crestron, headquartered in New Jersey, offers the Crestron Fusion, a conference and event management platform that monitors conference equipment, integrates business intelligence and data visualization apps for in-room presentations, and can monitor conference equipment for issues and rooms for availability as well. Cestron Fusion is available on-premise and via the Fusion Cloud, a SaaS option.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Crestron Fusion
#2 most frequent
Canada
6.1%7 installations of 114
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.3%6 installations of 114
Crestron Fusion - the software the fuses the hardware together
Pros
- Fusion is the main infrastructure for the Crestron Ecosystem and a result is a key components
- It has a decent ui and is easy to group and find assets. We arrange things by classroom.
Cons
- It requires a lot of understanding to set up for metrics. You really have to put what you want to measure into the code of each room so it can report back. It is cumbersome to add in a new metric.
- It just seems like it can be easier to have the equipment autopopulate and do standard reporting and control without having to build each of it for each piece of equipment.
Return on Investment
- Fusion has helped us make decisions on what types of equipment is being used in each room. It helped us eliminate parts not being used and saving us money in design and supportability.
- It has also helped us in that each morning we scan for what systems need attention. This has helped us create a much higher uptime.
Crestron Fusion - Watches your Crestron Systems
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
This Software allows usage, status of Crestron systems in your corporate environment. The setup is probably the biggest hassle, because you need to plan what items you want to monitor and configure the Fusion hooks to enable the devices to be correctly monitored. Once configured it works well enough, but needs continual updating as you add/ remove any new systems.
Pros
- Monitor if a room is in use / on
- Give you the status of your projector lamps / filters (timer based)
- Gives you a one stop location to see the overall corporate status of all Crestron systems.
Cons
- Every hook needs to be set to make any useful data to be created / shown
- Interface needs to set up
- Continual maintenance to make data accurate
Most Important Features
- Integrates with Crestron's devices
- Room in use status
- Projector lamp replacement info
Return on Investment
- without proper design your information might be lacking or wrong
- This is not a set and forget program
- As we replace 15-20 rooms a year, the ongoing maintenance takes time and or money