Neat: Pioneering Simple, Elegant Video Collaboration for the Modern Workplace
Neat represents a revolutionary approach to video conferencing technology—combining Scandinavian design principles with cutting-edge audiovisual performance to create devices that make virtual meetings feel almost as real as face-to-face interactions. Since launching in 2019, this Norwegian video technology company has rapidly ascended to become one of the industry’s most innovative manufacturers, serving over 13,000 customers across 55 countries with purpose-built devices for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Rooms.
Why Organizations Choose Neat Video Solutions
Native Platform Integration
Neat devices natively support Microsoft Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms, providing seamless integration without compatibility headaches. Devices are designed for seamless hybrid work with easy setup and robust support for Zoom and Microsoft Teams. This native integration ensures one-touch join functionality, automatic updates, and optimized performance for both platforms.
Superior Audio-Visual Quality
Neat devices feature advanced camera systems with high-megapixel sensors capturing detailed video, multi-microphone arrays with beamforming technology, and professional-grade speaker systems with vibration cancellation. The result is boardroom-quality audio and video in devices ranging from compact bars to all-in-one collaboration boards.
Flexible Deployment Options
Whether outfitting small huddle spaces, medium conference rooms, or large boardrooms, Neat offers purpose-built solutions scaled appropriately for each environment. Mounting flexibility—from table stands to wall mounts to mobile wheeled stands—enables organizations to configure spaces based on actual usage patterns rather than technical limitations.
Cloud Management and Analytics
Neat Pulse, a cloud-based platform, helps companies manage all their Neat devices from one single dashboard, with remote deployment, updates, and restarts, plus insights on meeting room occupancy, temperature, and air quality. This centralized management dramatically simplifies IT administration while providing data-driven insights for space optimization.
Rapid Innovation Cycle
Frost & Sullivan research highlights Neat’s success through rapid innovation, with 2023 performance outpacing the market despite challenging macroeconomic conditions. The company continuously enhances existing products through firmware updates while introducing new capabilities that extend device value long after initial purchase.
Top 5 Neat Products Powering Modern Collaboration
Neat Bar Generation 2 – Next-Generation Video Bar for Small to Medium Spaces
Neat Bar Generation 2, announced in April 2024, delivers extraordinary audio and video for native Zoom or Microsoft Teams Rooms meetings in a slim and elegant form. This second-generation flagship product builds upon the success of the original Neat Bar while introducing significant performance improvements.
Revolutionary Enhancements:
The Gen 2 model represents a comprehensive upgrade delivering better video quality, enhanced audio performance, and a more powerful processor to leverage Neat’s AI solutions. The company’s co-founder noted that Gen 2 is “a step up in every way” compared to the original that helped deploy devices with over 13,000 customers globally.
Technical Specifications:
Camera System: Enhanced sensor capturing crystal-clear video with improved low-light performance
Audio Array: Advanced multi-microphone beamforming array with superior voice enhancement
Intelligent Framing: Neat Symmetry automatically frames all participants equally
Processing Power: Upgraded processor enabling advanced AI capabilities
Connectivity: Single-cable USB-C BYOD mode for ultimate convenience
Display Support: Connects to one or two displays via HDMI
Form Factor: Sleek, compact design optimized for spaces up to 12-14 people
Neat Board Pro – Premium 65″ All-in-One Collaboration Device for Large Spaces
Introduced in October 2024, Neat Board Pro is an elegant, all-in-one video collaboration device delivering exceptional video and audio quality to ensure fluid and engaging experiences in medium and large meeting spaces.
Immersive Visual Experience:
Neat Board Pro features a 65-inch multi-touch screen with naturally adaptive, far-reaching audio and video for immersive meeting experiences in one elegant device. The large format display combines video conferencing capabilities with digital whiteboarding and content sharing, creating a comprehensive collaboration hub.
Advanced Camera Technology:
The device includes dual 50MP camera sensors capturing expansive room views with 8x hybrid zoom and 113° horizontal field of view to optimize framing capabilities. This dual-camera system incorporates both telephoto and wide-angle lenses, enabling the device to reach and frame people in intricate detail regardless of position within the room.
Superior Audio Performance:
Neat Board Pro features a 5-microphone end-fire array, five audio localization microphones, and advanced processing algorithms for echo cancellation, noise suppression, and dereverberation, ensuring clear and understandable voice pickup. The extended microphone range of 33 feet (10 meters) makes it ideal for larger spaces with dispersed participants.
The speaker system includes three full-range speakers providing directional stereo sound and woofers with opposing drivers for vibration cancellation, delivering maximum tonal range with minimal distortion.
Flexible Deployment Options:
Neat Board Pro comes with multiple mounting options, including an adaptive floor stand adjustable up to 10.9 inches (277mm) in height, supporting seamless transitions between standing and seated users. Organizations can choose from table stands, wall mounts, adaptive mounts, or the unique adaptive floor stand with wheels for room-to-room mobility.
Pricing:
Neat Board Pro is available from Neat channel partners and neat.no at a base price of $7,490.
Neat Board 50 – Compact 50″ Collaboration Display for Versatile Spaces
Neat Board 50 features a 4K 50-inch multi-touch LCD screen, bringing work and people to life with precise light and color direction, plus anti-glare and anti-fingerprint coatings for excellent readability. This mid-sized collaboration device offers powerful capabilities in a more compact, mobile form factor.
Custom-Built Camera Excellence:
The custom-built 50-megapixel camera with 113° horizontal field of view and lightning-fast image processing captures entire rooms, detecting, enlarging, and following each participant whether sitting, standing, or moving. Neat’s proprietary Symmetry technology ensures everyone appears equally framed regardless of position.
Advanced Audio Technology:
Neat Board 50 incorporates a 5-microphone end-fire array, five additional sensor microphones, and advanced algorithms for voice enhancement, deep noise suppression, and dereverberation, filtering unwanted noise even in acoustically challenging environments.
Natural Writing Experience:
Neat Board 50 comes with Neat Active Marker providing perfect friction and immediate response for natural writing, markup, or sketching, requiring no pairing or charging. This pressure-sensitive stylus includes a tail-end eraser and attaches magnetically to the device.
Neat Center – 360° Companion Device for Enhanced Meeting Equity
Neat Center is a companion device that frames people in meeting rooms face-on, ensuring remote participants remain at the center of the conversation by clearly seeing and hearing everyone for complete meeting equity, even when in-room participants are far from the main device or facing inward.
Addressing the Hybrid Challenge:
Traditional video conferencing setups struggle when in-room participants turn away from cameras or gather at the far end of tables. Equipped with a 360° 3x lens camera and 16x omnidirectional microphone array, Neat Center ensures equitable and inclusive participation for remote attendees in all hybrid meetings.
360° Visual Coverage:
Neat Center broadens remote attendees’ view with three additional cameras providing 360° visual meeting experience when those in the room are talking among themselves and facing away from the primary video device. Each camera captures 8MP video, and the system intelligently selects optimal angles for framing active speakers.
Omnidirectional Audio:
Neat Center’s omnidirectional 16-microphone array provides optimal audio pickup throughout the room, with audio automatically switching between Neat Center and the main Neat device depending on voice source location. Each Neat Center has six audio beams that continuously choose the optimal pickup, correlated with video streams showing participant locations.
Neat Pad – Intelligent Touch Controller and Scheduling Display
Neat Pad is a simple and elegant touch screen used to control meetings or display room availability outside rooms, with sleek design including ideal screen angle for smooth interaction and viewing, beautifully blending anywhere whether placed on tables, walls, or mullions.
Dual-Purpose Functionality:
As Room Controller: As a controller, Neat Pad enables quickly starting meetings and sharing screens with just one tap, configured for Zoom Rooms or Microsoft Teams Rooms consoles, allowing users to invite participants, mute them if necessary, or record meetings.
As Scheduling Display: When installed outside meeting rooms for optimal room management, Neat Pad configured as scheduling display enables instantly booking rooms without going through other calendar systems, with integrated LED indicators showing room availability at a glance, even from down corridors.
Technical Specifications:
Neat Pad features an 8-inch diagonal touch screen with 1280 x 800 resolution at 16:10 aspect ratio, anti-glare and anti-smudge coating, ambient light sensor, and sensors for temperature, humidity, CO2, and VOC. These environmental sensors enable organizations to monitor air quality and occupancy for healthier, optimized spaces.
Audio Capabilities:
Neat Pad’s controller function includes two built-in microphones bringing clarity to voices even from larger meeting rooms or when facing away from screens. The device also includes ultrasonic speakers for reliable device pairing with third-party Zoom Rooms systems.
Platform Certifications and Partnerships
Microsoft Collaboration
Microsoft’s Senior Director for Teams Partner Engineering and Certification praised Neat, noting positive customer feedback around the level of detail Neat pays attention to in products, including setup experience and industrial design finesse.
Neat has been included in the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), Microsoft’s platform for Android devices designed to enhance security, manageability, and accessibility for Android-operated intelligent workspaces.
Zoom Partnership
Neat maintains close collaboration with Zoom, ensuring devices deliver optimal Zoom Rooms experiences with early access to new features and platform enhancements. The partnership extends to joint development of whiteboard experiences and collaboration tools.
Audio Technology Partnerships
Neat has partnered with Shure Incorporated, the leading audio technology provider, to bring seamless integration between Neat Bar Pro and Shure Microflex Ecosystem solutions for large conferencing environments. This collaboration delivers first-of-its-kind combinations providing better experiences and more reliable collaboration.
Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility
Neat Board 50’s packaging enables shipping 37% more units in single containers, and felt room dividers in adaptive stands are made from 50% recycled plastic, part of a broader drive to shift from virgin plastics to incorporating more post-consumer recycled materials.
The company’s environmental commitments extend beyond materials to energy-efficient operation, recyclable packaging, and product longevity that reduces electronic waste compared to frequently replaced consumer alternatives.
The Future of Neat Innovation
Companies like Neat stand at the forefront of video conferencing transformation, delivering pioneering devices combining simplicity, performance, and forward-thinking design, enabling equitable meeting experiences and preparing for future technological shifts.
- Advanced AI Capabilities: Enhanced intelligent framing, noise suppression, and automated meeting optimization
- Expanded App Ecosystem: Growing library of third-party applications through Neat App Hub
- Platform Enhancements: Deeper integration with Microsoft and Zoom plus support for emerging collaboration platforms
- Sustainability Initiatives: Increased use of recycled materials and energy-efficient components
- Next-Generation Hardware: Continued innovation in camera, microphone, and display technologies