Trust has designed videoconferencing solutions for almost forty years and has proven itself by pushing the most popular features and devices to professional targets at low prices, also including very small businesses and self -entrepreneurs.

Today, the company offers a wide range of office technologies as mobile, but also linked to gaming and home automation universes for individuals.

Its flagship product remains the Trust Iris camera, an audio and video platform transforming any room into a meeting room and providing high quality communications between interlocutors separated by distance or current restrictive sanitary measures.

This is an expensive article for most individuals, however it is a first -rate tool for companies that must today compose with the massive adoption of telework and the limitation of business trips.

Price and availability

The Trust Iris 4K videoconferencing camera is available at Amazon (only) at the recommended price of € 799.However, you can currently get it below € 690, a massive reduction of more than € 110.

It should soon extend to other popular points of sale, at a similar price.

Four optional accessories are also provided by Trust to complete the installation: a microphone extension (€ 129), a 10 m USB cable (€ 99), an Optique 15 m (€ 249) and a TV Vesa support support(69 €).Due to a complication that we cannot explain, the Trust Iris 4K is only intended for sale outside the United States.

Trust is not the only manufacturer of solutions dedicated to videoconferencing, even if Iris remains one of the cheapest on the market.As a comparison, Logitech offers the Meetup at a price of € 1,099, Poly Le Studio at € 1,041 and Jabra Le Panacast at € 806.

It is interesting to note that the logitech meetup has remote management mode, but that its use requires coordinated configurations.The poly studio has, on the other hand, a fixed lens but can be connected to the host system by WiFi.As for the Jabra Panacast, it presents itself as a camera with three objectives delivering a panoramic view of 180 degrees.

Given the essential nature of videoconferences in the current context, we expect to see more tools and alternatives enrich the catalog of professionals in the next few months.

Design

The Trust Iris camera is a working tool - also whatever the place you exhibit, you will register part of your business / office.It is therefore advisable to choose your location.Its curved lines and the association of black and dark gray elements give it an elegant and completely professional aesthetic.

This device has been designed to be placed at the end of a conference table or on an extra table and offer the widest possible view of all the interlocutors present.Trust provides the iris with a wall support.If it does not suit you, it is possible to opt for a black TV support.

The viewing angle of the camera is 120 degrees, which allows it to integrate most of the participants who are in front of it, while leaving the ends of the hidden room hidden.Any inappropriate passage will thus remain discreet.

For it to work, this equipment must be connected to a computer via USB port.Precisely a three -meter cable is included in the box, with a type C connector to type A.This length is more than to connect the two devices.

However, Trust provides an extensible version if you have to deal with a huge assembly and a president that is difficult to dislodge at the other end of the table.Finally, those who do not wish to leave their desk, located at a good distance from the camera, an "optical" USB cable of 15 meters is one of the possible supplements..

The latest optional accessory appears in the form of a microphone extension, with a range of 10 meters, intended to make the stakeholders present at the bottom of the meeting room audible.

TV support, extension cables and micro extension is not yet marketed, but they should be available shortly.

Conversely, the Trust Iris pack also has a small 24W charger, which avoids having to use the USB connection to supply the camera - which remains possible, do not doubt it.As it is likely that you cut the installation a laptop with battery, having a dedicated charger has certain understandable advantages.

The packaging also includes a small remote control that allows you to make rapid angle of view, volume and brightness.This element is practical but can easily be lost.Remember to store it near the camera at the end of any meeting.

The only other reserve we feed on iris is the absence of a objective cover to protect the lens from any accumulation of dust and avoid any unwanted intrusion when the camera is disabled.We will discuss the question of confidentiality in more detail in the next section.

Overall, the manufacturing quality and the aesthetic line of the IRIS prove to be pleasant - is that the case for its daily installation and use?

Handling and features

It is interesting to note that there are some similarities in the approach adopted by Trust and that of its direct competitors.Thus, Iris presents itself as a solution without software pilot, with a control is partially conceded to the device.Therefore, it is not compulsory that a stakeholder takes the role of administrator or publisher during a meeting.

Unlike other models, such as the Coolpo Ai Huddle Pana, the Trust Iris is not entirely automatic because it can be neutralized by the remote control.A voluntary human intervention to cut short an unwanted appointment or to refocus the angle of view.

As IRIS does not require software installation, it works with all known specialized applications, such as Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc....

In all these scenarios, the camera and the microphone appear as devices available once the iris is connected by USB.The Reunion Organizer (within the application) can activate and deactivate these entries as needed.

When the meeting begins, the system displays a light around the camera lens to indicate that it is lit.Deactivating audio or video flows modifies the color of this halo to clearly indicate the status off to all stakeholders.Practice to avoid exposing your arguments or asking a question without audience.

By default, the maximum quality of the embedded Sony sensor delivers a 4K resolution (3840 x 2160 pixels), with a frequency of 60 images per second.And this on a very large plan, which should make it possible to recognize all the participants present in the camera.

Rapid pressure on the remote control can pass the system in audio mode, then encouraging the camera to "listen" the directional microphones to determine who speaks and focusing on the speaker's face in real time.A follow -up that takes place naturally, without constant attention of the master of ceremonies.

A characteristic that we particularly appreciated is the support of the HDR mode.In this sense, the camera takes several images to different exhibitions and combines them to improve brightness but also the level of contrasts, to avoid a dark or vague rendering, even a certain latency.

Many conference rooms are not uniformly lit, and HDR mode allows you to correct some classic anomalies - such as duplicated participants because they are supported against a light source, or with blurred silhouette because theyhide in a little lit corner.

The camera has a routine that quickly identifies faces and can go from one to the other without hesitation.If you hope to target other elements, such as a new product to present, then the objective can be oriented directly via the remote control.Five digital zoom levels are also available to get closer to the object concerned.

The optical zoom would have been preferable to digital, but with a 4K sensor, the results are not excessively distant.

If you find that the camera focuses a little too frequently on the same target, the remote control can also store two predefined directions which can be activated by pressing an emergency button.If needed.

To conclude...

The Trust Iris camera is a well -studied solution that offers 95% of the commonly essential features in a conference room.If your business is not intended to cover Keynotes but traditional team meetings, this is the most complete solution to date.

There is only one option that some customers appreciate more than others, namely the possibility of managing the objective of the goal remotely.To achieve this, you should install the same software interface in the transmitter as in the videoconferencing receiver-which would ruin the simplicity of this "plug-and-play" design.

In addition, by avoiding this type of intrusive administration, the trust iris reassures employees who would risk, in this scheme, to undergo some unwashing zooms.Rival products, such as logitech meetup, have this function - but they require the installation of a more application to facilitate its implementation.

We are more convinced by the Trust Iris, whose simplicity makes it possible to avoid too complex installation and costly maintenance in the long term.Even if it does not offer ultimate control, this proposal supports guaranteed conferences without technical problem and without human clashes.All at an affordable price.Isn't that essential?