ViewSonic IFP8670 - 86 inch - 350 cd/m² - 3840x2160 - 20 point - touch display - video conference camera - microphones

The ViewSonic IFP8670 Collaboration Display is the flagship of the new IFP70 series, which focuses on even easier and more productive collaboration in demanding meeting and conference rooms. The impressive 86-inch interactive display with capacitive touch technology becomes a modern workspace that will meet all your needs: Show and edit office content directly on the display even while on the move. Present 4K videos and content to show even the smallest details in the perfect light. Simple collaboration with mobile phones and smartphones, as well as holding professional video conferences, are also no problem for the interactive display from ViewSonic. The ViewSonic display supports you in all aspects of cross-location collaboration. Operation is intuitive at all times and the display can be used without specialist knowledge . This is the greatest strength of the ViewSonic all-in-one collaboration display.

The high-quality 4K panel from ViewSonic ensures brilliant, crystal-clear images and videos at all times that will inspire you and your visitors. Thanks to its 86-inch screen diagonal , the large-format display is suitable for large meeting and conference rooms and is definitely an eye-catcher in any room . To ensure that you are well equipped for professional video conferences, comes with a full HD camera . To ensure that all participants can enjoy perfect sound transmission, a high-quality 2.1 loudspeaker system and 6 integrated microphones are integrated. The camera supplied is Skype for Business certified and therefore harmonises perfectly with the Windows video conferencing solution. The 20-point capacitive multi-touch ensures a pleasant user experience, as one is otherwise accustomed to from modern smartphones or tablets. The included IoT sensor collects all relevant data such as movement, light, temperature, humidity and sends it to Microsoft Azure. In this way,   can be used to evaluate quality and room utilisation, among other things, afterwards.

The barriers to digital collaboration are often still very high. In most cases, this fails due to the complexity of the products, or the incompatibility of individual components. Collaboration comes in all shapes and sizes ? from tactical working groups to large, established project groups ? and they often include both local and global locations and must be operated by employees who do not work with interactive displays every day and still want to achieve sustainable results. ViewSonic has understood the problems and with the IFP8670 has brought an interactive display onto the market that solves precisely these problems:

With the purchase of the ViewSonic IFP8670 you also automatically receive access to "myViewBoard" and thus nothing stands in the way of cross-location collaboration. myViewBoard is the DSGVO-certified cloud software from ViewSonic, with which you can log onto your platform from anywhere in the world and have access to all your content. Of course, you can immediately save content that you have created directly on the IFP8670 display on myViewBoard or connected applications (including Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) and use it as required. myViewBoard is therefore a central platform that combines various services and systems and more or less becomes your new assistant. But myViewBoard is more than just a central collection point for your presentations. myViewBoard is also a digital whiteboard solution. With the help of this whiteboard solution, an unlimited number of users around the world can view your digital whiteboard and participate interactively by sending you messages, pictures or other files. You can even receive the entire screen from other myViewBoard.com users and display it on their whiteboard. To securely protect your data from unauthorised access, myViewBoard uses the AES-256 encryption standard.

A real special feature is that you don't have to be directly on site for presentations, because via the integrated ViewBoard Cast you can also share your content on the move on a screen that can be split up to four ways and offer participants a way of integrating themselves into a live presentation via a link and password, so that they can then either actively intervene in the meeting or just be present as a silent spectator. The event leader can share connected PCs, laptops or smartphones on the display at any time and, if desired, connected end devices can also be operated remotely. IOS, Windows and Android devices can be included . Presentation participants also have the option of sending individual content (images, documents, etc.) to the display, which the presenter can then share and display as desired . You will notice: With this display you get completely new approaches that will fundamentally change your meeting or teaching. These possibilities are not only an enormous advantage in schools and educational institutions, but also play an increasingly larger and more important role in the business environment.

The ViewSonic touch display not only has an integrated Android operating system (which can be completely deactivated if desired), but can also be "upgraded" at any time with a powerful slot-in PC . Once the slot-in PC has been integrated into the display, you have a fully-fledged Microsoft PC with Windows Pro 64Bit operating system at your disposal and can then be seamlessly integrated into your network infrastructure. In this way, you can turn the IFP8670 into a perfect all-in-one solution in no time at all, which is also state-of-the-art in terms of performance. You can seamlessly switch between the Android operating system and the Windows PC at any time, even during operation and at the touch of a button. ViewSonic has a real unique selling point: If you write something on the Android surface and want to use it on the Windows surface, you can simply copy the text and continue editing it - of course, this also works in the other direction. The VPC27-W55-P2 is recommended as a slot-in PC for the interactive touch display. No matter what programmes you want to use on Windows, whether pictures, videos, office files or CAD programmes and power-hungry image editing software, the performance of the Slot-In-PC with i7 processor will meet any demand.

Lovers of the classic cable connection can rejoice, because ViewSonic also offers you a perfect implementation here . Thanks to the USB-C connection you can simply connect your notebook or smartphone to the interactive display with only one USB-C cable . The USB-C cable then transmits all your content, internet, audio and also takes care of the laptop's power supply at the same time (max 60 watts). Of course, once you have connected the laptop to the ViewSonic IFP8670, you can also control and operate your PC via the display. This turns the ViewSonic display into a complete solution, which will improve your everyday life in the long term.

Even in interactive meetings, the ViewSonic 4K display ensures that information can be exchanged and captured quickly and precisely. With 20-point capacitive touch technology, the IFP8670 offers a natural and precise writing experience. This means that writing on the screen is just as fast and feels like writing on a classic flipchart or whiteboard. Use your fingers or the supplied (active) pen to add comments to in a presentation , highlight important changes and print results via a network printer. Write directly in your Excel spreadsheet or work in a team on a Word document. Of course, you can also work with PDFs and fill in the form on the display. You then share the result with all meeting participants via an installed email programme with , thus ensuring that your information is not lost even after the meeting and you no longer need to edit it afterwards . Everything you have installed on the connected laptop can be displayed on the ViewSonic IFP8670 and then used via the interactive monitor. Of course, if you connect your slot-in PC to the ViewSonic display, for example, user management is possible - as long as the device has been integrated into the domain and the network. The ViewSonic IFP8670 is proven to accelerate collaboration and efficiency because users can work together immediately without training, which automatically leads to more engagement and interactivity. In addition, the interactive 86 inch display also increases concentration, as users can focus on delivering content and can become active and a contributing part of the meeting at any time.

For video conferencing, the display has a full HD camera included, six far-field microphones (linear arrangement for perfect coverage of participants within a range of 4-6 metres), as well as 2 integrated 10 watt loudspeakers and a 15 watt subwoofer, which provide a decent sound and make the use of external loudspeaker systems, especially in small rooms, mostly superfluous.

The ViewSonic IFP6570 comes with two active pens as standard, but additional pens can be ordered at any time. Let's return to the pen for a moment, because the pen is not only a writing instrument, but also offers you a "spotlight" function with which you can highlight special content on the display. Anyone who has ever stood in front of a display and wanted to work with a laser pointer quickly reached its limits, as these do not work on LCD displays. This is why ViewSonic does not use classic laser technology here, but digital laser technology.

The IFP8670 from ViewSonic has built-in sensors that can be connected to Microsoft Azure' and enable an intelligent object environment. Microsoft Azure is a powerful managed cloud service that acts as a central data store and can provide additional information for data processing. By collecting and analysing real-time data from across the digital and physical worlds, it automatically detects meeting room usage, monitors environmental conditions and helps optimise room utilisation once connected to a smart building backend system. This allows you to monitor room utilisation and draw conclusions.

Let's move on to the point of connectivity: you can always connect the ViewSonic IFP8670 to your company network via LAN interface. However, if you need a wireless connection to your company network and for the wireless connection with laptops, mobile phones and tablets) , you would have to additionally purchase the WLAN module VB-WIFI-005 for a fee. The wireless module supports a dual frequency bandwidth of 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz as well as the 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax WiFi standards for transmission. The VB-WIFI-005 also provides a fast Bluetooth 5.2 connection for one-to-one file and data transfer. The WiFi module is connected to the existing port and screwed to the display. This not only guarantees a stable connection, but also provides theft protection at the same time.

Our opinion of the IFP8670:

The IFP8670 from ViewSonic is a real eye-catcher in terms of size alone and ensures that participants keep looking at the impressive display all by themselves. The ViewSonic IFP8670 offers you a powerful overall package, even without an external PC. With the optional slot-in PC, you can easily transform the display into a fully-fledged Microsoft PC with touch function and thus integrate the display completely into your infrastructure and provide participants with a familiar workplace. The DSGVO-certified cloud solution myViewBoard offers you the possibility to prepare everything from home and to be able to call it up on the display when needed, and it doesn't even have to be the display in a specific office or school. You can go to any display with myViewBoard software installed and all your documents, pictures and videos are available and ready to use. This approach not only sounds great, but is already proving its worth in many schools and businesses. With ViewBoard Cast, you can not only share content quickly and easily, but also include participants in a presentation who don't even have to be there. More than just an interactive display, the IFP8670 offers sophisticated and secure software that is perfectly adaptable and deployable for businesses and educational institutions.

Are there any security concerns about the pre-installed Android operating system?

No. The installed Android operating system is encapsulated and users/applicants cannot simply install arbitrary apps. For example, access to Google's PlayStore is excluded and only by installing apps would the Android operating system become insecure. From this point of view: although Android serves as the basis for ViewSonic's IFP8670 display - so that you just get a wide range of functions and possibilities without an external PC or slot-in PC - it is self-sufficient and therefore cannot be compared with the problems and risks that mobile phone users may have with the Android operating system. The operating system is not accessible from outside and thus meets all the important criteria for secure operation.

The myViewBoard is located in a cloud. Is that allowed at all and how secure is it?

The topic of "cloud" still has a very negative connotation in Germany. Basically, we Germans are initially sceptical about things we can't control ourselves. For us, the issues of security, protection of intellectual property and the fear of high costs have always been at the top of the list. But in the meantime, cloud services have become indispensable and the market has developed enormously. Today, for example, cloud telephone systems, cloud software, cloud storage locations, etc. are available, which do not cut any corners when it comes to security and data protection and are now indispensable for large companies and public authorities. ViewSonic relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its cloud solution, on which, among others, e.g. German security authorities rely. Amazon AWS Germany is DSGVO certified and the data that a user uploads from Germany to the AWS servers is also always stored in Germany. The special feature of AWS, however, is that a user from America does not store the data in Germany, but it is automatically stored on the American AWS servers . This way, the applicable law of each country is observed. In this way, the applicable law of each country is observed and you do not have to worry about anything. With AWS, you can build on the most secure global infrastructure and be sure that you always own your data and can encrypt, move and manage your data. AWS regularly gets audited by independent third parties to maintain the highest security and compliance standards for finance, retail, healthcare, government and beyond.