It's a web page, and that's the point
Open the display link on a tablet mounted by the door and it becomes a live room panel. It turns green when the room is free and red when it's busy, and you can read it from across the floor. You don't have to install an app, update firmware, or buy any particular hardware. An old iPad, a cheap Android tablet, or the demo unit from the drawer will all do the job.
We've spent eight years building room displays at Roombelt. The displays in Naboro come from that experience, and they're included in the free plan with no room limit.
What the display does
- Status at a glance. The display shows the room name, whether it's free, and until when. You can tell green from red down the corridor.
- Booking at the door. The room is free and you're standing in front of it. One tap books it for 30 minutes or an hour.
- Check-in that frees the room. If nobody confirms they've shown up, the booking is released and the room is available again. Empty rooms don't stay blocked.
- Extend or end early. Meeting running long? Extend from the door. Done in twenty minutes? End it and free the room for the next team.
- Synced both ways. With calendar sync, a meeting booked in Outlook or Google Calendar shows on the door in seconds, and a booking made at the door shows up in the organizer's calendar.
How to set up a display
- Add your rooms in Naboro. Each room gets its own display page.
- Open the display link on the tablet. That's the whole installation.
- Pin it to the screen. Use Guided Access on iPad or screen pinning on Android so the tablet stays a display, and keep it on a charger.
- Mount it by the door. Any tablet wall mount works. There is no special hardware to match.
The math against dedicated panels
A commercial room panel usually costs between $500 and $1,500 per door, before the monthly per-room software fee. A capable Android tablet costs about a tenth of that, and the Naboro display software costs nothing, whether you have one door or forty. If you already have retired tablets, the whole project costs a wall mount.