With the emerging growth of cities around Africa and continuous compulsion to measure up to world standards, new technology has been the main focus. New properties and developments around the continent are coming up each with new cutting edge features that make a mark in the construction industry, provide a competitive advantage, attract more clients and cash in bigger revenue. For all of these the secret is ensuring there is new technology that automates your people and services and gives your clients the best in quality and convenience. Hotels are not being left behind.

New hotels are being constructed annually and with each, ICT plays an important role in how they will be received in the industry and how they will compete against existing hotels in the market. This is not to say that old hotels are phased out. On the contrary, existing hotels are very dynamic. Indulging in refurbishment projects is quite common to maintain quality standards and relevance.

Talinda East Africa is at the forefront of hotel projects in Africa, providing Turnkey ICT infrastructure in refurbishments, new builds and technology upgrades in the hospitality industry. Our goal is to provide simple, easy to use solutions for your staff and guests that ensures quality, advanced security and ensures technology relevance. Our areas of service are:

The experience of a modern traveler calls for many gadgets. Mobile phones and tablets are quite common today. We deploy premium, flexible and intuitive information, communication and entertainment software system with IPTV designed for the hotel industry. IPTV provides uniqueness in incorporating all your guest needs in one software application as well as creating future proof guest interactive solutions. Therefore, with a simple hosted device like a Smart TV, Mobile phone or Tablet, your guests can access all the hotel services.

At Talinda East Africa we specially design your Guest Room Management Systems to ensure an impeccable and satisfying experience for your guests that exceeds their expectations. Our intelligent solutions are based on interactive technology that compliments the exceptional experience you want for your guests. We offer beautiful, energy-efficient, affordable control options that will help differentiate your hotel, and delight your guests. All these features are delivered with powerful smart room controllers that offer multi-language support, and elegantly designed products that blend beautifully with your décor. So whether it’s a new hotel development, a retro-fit or a refurbish, with the efficient room controllers and the seamless integration of the system components, our system enables you to realize significant financial savings throughout the operation and maintenance of your hotel.

We hope this article gives you great insights in your quest to find the best hotel turnkey and refurbishment contractors in Kenya. For further information, reach out to our ICT consultants and engineers by calling +254700446536 or email info@talinda.net to have a scalable solution designed for you.

Firstly, Line Interactive UPS are trusted around the world to protect critical data and equipment from power interruption with reliable and efficient network-grade power supply. Mostly, office power backups are available in a variety of classes from entry level, standard and extended run giving you a model for your specific application and budget.

Entry level line interactive UPS models are popular in small and medium businesses. They are an economical choice to protect small networking devices like entry level servers and point-of-sale (POS) equipment. For extended run, these models accept external batteries to allow longer runtime to power critical servers, communication and security systems through outages that could last hours. An ideal UPS for entry level and SMB servers, point-of-sale, switches, routers, switches, and other network devices. Available from 500VA-7450VA.

• High-reliability.
• High-efficiency.
• Reasonable voltage conditioning.
• Lower electricity consumption.
• Lower operating temperatures.

• Impractical over 5000VA.
• Does not protect against all forms of power irregularities.
• Do not provide frequency regulation or power-factor correction.
• Require frequent battery use in areas of extreme voltage irregularities

Secondly, online office power backups designed for essential power protection and the most unsteady power conditions. Consequently, online UPS’s provide high quality, double-conversion protection designed for critical power protection needs in unstable power conditions. With an interactive interface, users have the ability to manage the UPS functions, schedule automatic shutdowns and monitor the power grid. Consequently, this ensures easy and intuitive monitoring. Critical applications like voice and data networks, heavily loaded network racks, blade servers, medical labs, financial and light industrial applications demand a reliable source of uninterruptible power in demanding and unpredictable power environments. Also, for business-critical systems with longer runtime hours, on-line UPS configured with matching battery packs for the runtime demands.

Notably, online UPS is The Ultimate Power Protection using double conversion method accepts AC power input, rectifies it to DC then passes through the rechargeable battery, then inverts back to AC to power the protected equipment. Therefore, failure of the AC input won’t cause transfer switch activation. The batteries keep the power steady and unchanged with absolutely no transfer time during the failure. Once power is restored, the UPS resumes and carries most of the load and begins charging the batteries. Typically, the application for Online UPS is in Communications; Banking; Transportation; Industrial Environments from 1,000VA to 40,000VA.

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• Good voltage regulation than line interactive UPS.
• Fast conversion time from DC to AC without coverage gaps.
• No fluctuations in the voltage, indicating stable voltage quality.
• Highest protection against power irregularities with its almost ideal electrical output

• Complex designs require a large heat sink.
• Higher power dissipation.
• Overall efficiency of UPS is reduced as the inverter is always on.
• Relatively high-priced

Any collaboration technology today should be able to create a meeting room from any modern workspace with easy to use, schedule and remote management capabilities. Hence, it won’t matter if you are designing a small huddle space or a larger conference room, it’s critical to simplify and enhance meetings by providing the right collaboration technology.

Scalable Solutions – collaboration technology must be customizable to meet the needs of different meeting room spaces from huddles to larger, more complex conference rooms.

Intuitive Solution – Users can enter and easily use the space without getting training on the system.

Flexibility – Users share and mirror content from their phones, tablets or laptops via a wired or wireless connection.

Security – To support scalable solutions to rooms within the enterprise, the system must be connected in a secure network for monitoring, remote support, and firmware updates.

A video projector, otherwise known as a multimedia projector is a common presentation feature in classrooms and boardrooms alike. It functions through taking a video signal, converting it into a viewable image, and then projects it on a surface or screen. With a projector, you get the ability to present PowerPoint slideshows, text, and audio visual content in high resolution and full-color. Typically, the projector features computer, VCR, CD and DVD player inputs.

Screen size especially the width

Throw distance i.e Distance between the display screen and the projector

Room lighting available

With advanced features that enhance your workflow and collaboration you can finally say goodbye to messy whiteboard, reeking markers and jumbled paper flipcharts and say hello to digital flipcharts. Digital flip boards are interactive with touch display to allow students or teams hold and recap meetings with ease, enhance presentation and deliver great collaboration. They are ideal for group brainstorming in all meeting types – huddles, small, midsize, large conferences, theatre, etc. Go beyond usual pen, paper and markers.

Talinda is the top installer and supplier of Interactive Smart boards in Kenya. Also referred to as digital whiteboards or interactive boards, Smart boards promote collaboration among creators, doctors, students and colleagues for group discussion and team participation. Like flip boards, they are an effective brainstorming tools. With this, participants can take notes, save, share them on-the-go and distribute them later.

Obviously, a huddle room doesn’t often need a costly wireless/wired system with individual mics for each participant since every voice can be heard with ease in small spaces. Nevertheless, mid-size to large meeting rooms cannot flourish with a single microphone in the middle of the table. Some speakers won’t be heard and even moving spots to speak can disrupt the meeting.

Microphone Options when deciding on the mics of choice factors that go into play include room layout, audio requirements of team, noise levels needed, wireless microphones, compatibility with BYOD infrastructure like laptops, installation method sought out, room architecture and design.

Ceiling Mics: Are ideal for decluttering meeting room with wires and lining your tabletop, while ensuring a 360-degree audio pickup. The mics are best suited for medium to large conference rooms. You are free to install more than one mic in the room to pick every single speaker. Pretty straight forward, ceiling microphones are mounted and embedded into your ceiling with an industrial finish or hang like a chandelier to blend with your décor. With high ceiling conference rooms, hanging microphone are often necessary to guarantee capture of every voice in the room.

Gooseneck Mics: Like the name implies gooseneck microphones have an uncanny resemblance to a goose’s neck. However, they are the best choice for guaranteeing perfect audio quality. Each seat is paired with a dedicated microphone. The advantage is they do not pick up background noise. On the flipside, they clutter your table with equipment.

Boundary/ Button Mics: The setup is fairly simple, these small square microphone is placed on a “boundary,” essentially a mounting surface. Typically, this mic is mounted and embedded within/on/under the table. They pickup voices of all speakers in front of them. They are common in most meeting rooms as they are relatively cheap, neat and great at picking up voices albeit at higher frequencies. 

Unlike a regular screen, a video conferencing monitor has integrated video conferencing capabilities that allow users to leverage the web conferencing software tools like Zoom, Skype, and Google Hangouts. These hardware monitors help you conduct and attend meetings. The quality and functionality of the monitor have the potential to largely affect any meeting, so it is important to know exactly what to look for.

A comfortable environment, ability to clearly hear and see team members, seamless sharing of ideas, and easy access to your information and shared information are all important attributes contributing to meaningful collaboration. The factors we’ve just listed will be affected by monitor’s:

● Ergonomic Design – With flexile positioning, a VC monitor will allow users a comfortable sitting even in long meetings. A good monitor will discourage hunching over or neck straining. Also with good sitting posture, it reflects a professional appearance to those you are presenting to.
● Screen Size – With large VC monitor screen size, users can open multiple windows simultaneously, access information easily for authentic collaboration and presentation meeting room systems.
● Refresh Rate – measure in hertz (Hz), typically the number of times per second the display is refreshed. 75Hz is a great starting point for clear video and smooth scrolling for VC purposes that is safe for the eyes.
● Video conferencing Camera Positioning – A built-in camera located above the screen ensures parties are perfectly framed while looking at the monitor.

Video conferencing is an audio visual technology that enables users in different locations have face-to-face meetings/ communication without any need to physically meet in one common location. It is a convenient technology for business users in different countries or towns since it saves time, travel costs, and hassles related to business travel.

Despite this, video conferencing systems and equipment can be quite expensive and intimidating to many businesses. Our modern video conferencing kit, enables individuals and businesses hold their important meetings or classes hassle free with low Total Cost of Ownership. VC kits are easy to use, manage and most importantly, plug-and-play thus reducing the need for technical teams to be involved in set up, installation and configuration process.

Depending on the scale, these kits can be installed in small startup huddle rooms with two people to large scale meeting rooms like boardrooms, schools, churches and embassies.

They are collaboration tools that route multiple audio and/ video sources to multiple audio and/ video destinations. Thus the matrix switcher accepts audiovisual signals from variant input sources such as cameras, computers – and thereafter routes the output to different destinations, like projectors, interactive smart boards, and video conference codecs.

Our range of surface mount, ceiling mount and pendant speakers are designed to meet your specific needs. Your selection of speakers will depend factors such as aesthetics, size of meeting space, whether the meeting room ceiling is “sealed”, budgets and people in the meeting.

For every comfy space with a couple of chairs in the lobby can also serve as a perfect setting for a productive presentation and meeting space with 1-4 participants. Our wireless meeting room solution can turn any shared common area into an efficient huddle meeting space. Just connect your presentation wirelessly via WiFi through your laptop, tablet or phone and enjoy your meetings on-the-go.

Talinda will take your huddle space experience a notch higher with best clarity presentations. Our meeting room environment with in-table mount, automated Plug & Present and wired connections for successful convenient presentations.

What’s the joy in having one if you can have both? Boost your meeting potential with simultaneous wired and wireless presentation and collaboration room systems. Unleash you team spirit with a suite of time saving tools that help each member get the best out of the meeting schedule using. Simultaneous Wired & Wireless Solution using casting tools to mirror your Android device onto your presentation screen, video conferencing screen or smartboard in high definition and audio.

Formal meeting spaces come with unique features and requirements. From crystal clear audio, easy intuitive connections, display devices like video conferencing screen, whiteboards to instant room control ensuring all participants all-hands-on-deck meetings. Talinda has partnered with top brands like Kramer and Extron to deliver clientless, unmatched simultaneous wired and wireless presentation and collaboration features with top-tier audio experience for iOS, Windows, Android & Mac OS user.

AV Connectivity can be mount in furniture, walls, shelves, tables for creating a professional and elegant presentation systems. Flip up touchpanels help users to control the meeting without having to move across the room.

Whether you are looking for a huddle space, breakout room, large boardroom or auditorium meeting room solution, Talinda East Africa has you covered. Our team of audio visual engineers are well equipped to turn your ideas into reality with an excellent solution.