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ORBIT. The room is the interface.

In most meeting rooms, the hard part isn't the screen on the wall. It's the little touchscreen by the door, with pages of buttons for sources, volume, camera and lights, and you have to know which page to open. ORBIT works the other way around. The touchscreen shows a picture of the room, and you touch the room.

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The ORBIT panel: a picture of a boardroom with a small status label over each device, a Room Health score, four room modes, and a bar of sources along the bottom.
The panel in use: a laptop on one screen and Apple TV on the other. Every label sits on the device it describes.

Where it comes from. ORBIT is based on a room-control panel that works this way, reworked into a neutral, non-branded model so we can show it openly, without anyone's logo or floor plan. The room equipment is simulated, so it behaves like a working room anywhere we demonstrate it.

One meeting, start to finish

Here is what someone walking into the room sees and does. None of it needs a tour.

  • Walk in

    The panel shows the room itself. A small status label sits on each device, so a glance tells you what's on, what's ready and what's connected.

  • Join

    Ten minutes before a meeting, the room offers to join the call. One tap brings the call up on the main screen, turns the camera on and opens the microphones.

  • Share

    Drag a laptop, Apple TV or any other source from the bar onto a screen in the picture. That's the whole step.

  • Wrap up

    Tap RESET and the room returns to a known, private resting state, ready for whoever walks in next.

Dragging Apple TV from the sources bar toward the screens, with the drop targets lit up.
Sharing a source: drag it toward a screen and the drop targets light up.

What a better panel gives you

These are the goals behind the design, and the ideas we bring to every room we program.

  • No trainingA first-time visitor can start a meeting without instructions, because the controls are on the things they're already looking at.
  • Clear at a glanceOne Room Health score and plain-language status, instead of a screen full of indicators only a technician can read.
  • The room handles the detailsThe camera and microphones only go live when a call is actually on a screen. Turn up a display's own speakers and the ceiling speakers mute themselves.
  • Every panel agreesThe room's logic lives in the processor, not the panel, so every panel in the space shows the same thing.

Your name on the panel. Our programming behind it.

ORBIT is a demonstration model, not a boxed product. What we offer is the work behind it: an interface designed around the person walking in, and a room programmed to handle the details, built for your spaces and carrying your name.

For integrators

Offer your clients a panel designed around their room, under your brand. We handle the design and programming so your team can stay focused on the install, and we work out the terms together, project by project.

For organizations that run their own rooms

If you have internal AV or IT teams supporting many spaces, we can build an interface and control system around your rooms, your equipment and your standards, so every space works the same way for the people in it.

  • Built around the spaceThe actual room, equipment and sources go into the picture, so the panel looks like the space it controls.
  • A proven starting pointBegin with a design that already works, with the room picture, device status and drag-to-route in place, instead of a blank page.
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The details

For technicians, programmers and the curious.

Everything it does
01

The Room Is the Interface

Status chips float over each device in the picture: the displays, camera, lights, shades, climate and the table microphones. Content shows on the screens in the picture, so a glance tells you what the room is doing.

02

Route by Touch

Drag a source from the Quick Sources bar onto a display in the picture, or tap a source and choose a display. Six sources: laptop, table HDMI, wireless presentation, Apple TV, a Teams Room PC and a document camera.

03

Room Modes

PRESENT starts a presentation, COLLABORATE is for working together, FOCUS reduces distractions, and RESET returns the room to a known, private resting state.

04

Room Health

One score from 0 to 100 with a Video, Audio, Network, Devices and Environment breakdown. It reads ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL when everything is well and ATTENTION when something needs a look.

05

Meeting-Aware

The room keeps a calendar for the day. Ten minutes before a meeting it offers to join on Teams, and one tap puts the Room PC on the main display, starts the camera tracking and takes the microphones live.

06

Camera and Mic Privacy

The camera leaves privacy mode, and the microphones unmute, only when the Teams Room PC is on a powered display.

07

Audio That Follows the Signal

Raising a display's own speakers mutes the ceiling feed automatically, and one tap switches back. If the signal path under a display fails, the ceiling speakers mute and return on recovery. A Teams call keeps its audio.

08

Occupancy Without a Sensor

IN USE or VACANT is inferred from panel activity, with a known, private state to fall back to.

For technicians: when a device fails

The panel is also built for the person who has to fix the room. When equipment fails, the panel says so plainly and offers the fix, and the same information is there for a technician to dig into.

The ROOM page after a decoder failure: Display 2 reads OFFLINE and shows No Signal, Room Health drops to 82 percent, and the header reads ATTENTION.
A decoder drops. Display 2 reads OFFLINE, Room Health falls to 82%, and the header reads ATTENTION.
The SYSTEM page showing the full signal chain from sources through encoders, network and decoders to displays, with the failed decoder outlined and its path in red, and Retry, Restart Endpoint and Identify actions.
The SYSTEM page. The failed decoder is outlined, its path is red, and Retry, Restart Endpoint and Identify are one tap away.
The INSIGHTS dashboard showing room health over the session, sources used, room modes started and endpoint reliability.
Insights: room health over the session, sources used, modes started and endpoint reliability.

If the main display is lost, the header reads ROOM NOT READY and a notice offers two actions: move the laptop to the backup display in one tap, or jump straight to the failed device. A PIN-protected technician page controls what the panel shows, and if the panel loses the processor it locks on an offline screen that asks for service.

For your programmers: how it's built

Plain HTML5, CSS and JavaScript on Crestron CH5, with no UI framework. The room picture, perspective-mapped screens, animations and drag-to-route are all hand-built. The processor side is SIMPL# Pro (C#, .NET 6), where a single room engine owns all room state.

HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript Crestron CH5 (CrComLib) SIMPL# Pro (C#, .NET 6) AV-over-IP Dante Audio Microsoft Teams Rooms Web XPanel Virtual Panel
  • One Signal ContractA single JSON file defines every command and feedback signal and generates both the C# and JavaScript sides, so the two cannot drift apart.
  • One Codebase, Many SurfacesThe same project runs on a TS-1080 panel, in Crestron Virtual Panel and as a web XPanel in a browser. A 7-inch Orbit Compact is a leaner, image-first version.
  • Built for Crestron 4-SeriesThe room logic runs on 4-Series control, including a VC-4 server, and the interface runs on CH5-capable Crestron touch screens. If you program Crestron, you already know the platform.

ORBIT is a non-branded demonstration model designed and programmed by ControlBytes, LLC., and was shown at Crestron Masters. It is not endorsed or certified by Crestron. Crestron, 4-Series, DM-NVX, AirMedia, VC-4 and TS-1080 are trademarks of Crestron Electronics, Inc. Microsoft Teams and Apple TV are trademarks of their respective owners.