Recommendations on iOS-Based Conference Room Kiosks?

[dstranathan]

My organization currently uses Steel Case's Room Wizard products (http://www.steelcase.com/?p=358) for booking conference rooms, etc. They are basically wall-mounted resisitive touch-based kiosks that talk to Exchange over Ethernet for the purpose of booking meeting rooms on-the-fly, checking upcoming meetings at-a-glance, etc.

We are planning to upgrade them in 2016 and I'm looking at tablet-based replacements - preferably iOS-based. Mount iPad minis on the wall outside of the conference rooms, wire the USB power behind the wall to make them look nice and pretty, manage them with MDM, get 'em on our WPA2 WLAN and be done with it. Boomdigity.

The only thing we might do that would be "custom" is to use them to book scientific devices as well as conference rooms (microscopes and other research equipment, which already have their own Exchange calendars)

Thus far I'm most attracted to Roomr (http://www.roomrapp.com). Form a software perspective, this looks pretty cool, although it doesn't look like it was designed to scale from iPhones onto iPads for a kiosk-style deployment.

Has anyone deployed such a solution before? Any recommendations or suggestions?

Thank you

[adamcodega]

I use EventBoards here for conference room schedules as well as iPad based check-in at the reception desk. I've been really happy with them and nice to support another startup company. We use Casper Focus to lock and unlock the iPads. Deployment is ridiculously simple if you are Google Apps based, but they also support Exchange and will tie in the resource calendars users see on their computers.

There's a myriad of them available and I don't think there's any reason not to go iOS based. Robin is another one I hear a lot about but don't see the benefit of a unique website and app to book conference rooms versus booking them from your Calendar app.