Abstract:
The Project VMS is a solution developed to allow
virtual meetings between two remote business meeting rooms.
The solution is designed so as to complement the facilities
provided by a typical meeting room environment. The system
consists of a single Server subsystem, two Facilitator
subsystems and Presenter subsystems. In the production
environment, each meeting room would have a central
Facilitator subsystem of its own, used by the meeting facilitator
who controls the meeting. Each Facilitator subsystem is
connected to Presenter subsystems installed in PCs of meeting
participants inside the room. The Server subsystem connects
two Facilitator subsystems in order to materialise the Virtual
Meeting between two meeting rooms. The system supports
sharing of presenter screens and voice between meeting rooms.
Additionally, the facilitators maintain a shared list of tasks
which could be assigned to presenters, whom would be notified
upon assignment. In materialising aforementioned, the system
uses Client-Server Architecture between connected subsystems.
The major output of the project can be identified as the three
subsystem applications developed, which together would
revolutionize Virtual Meetings. This can be identified as a
major step taken forward from the use of internet video calls to
materialize virtual meetings.
