Best EdTech Brand of the Year

PeopleLink was named Best EdTech Brand of the Year at the Time2Leap Awards, presented during the second edition of the MSME Innovation and Start-Up Summit.

The recognition points to a simple shift in how institutions teach: the classroom is no longer a single room with one audience. PeopleLink builds the technology that lets a lecture reach students in the room, students joining from home, and students who watch the recording a week later, all from one consistent setup.

What a PeopleLink Smart Classroom Includes

A PeopleLink smart classroom brings the display, the camera, the audio, and the classroom software together as one system rather than a shelf of unrelated devices. The teaching surface is an interactive flat panel that replaces the projector and whiteboard with a single bright, touch-enabled screen for writing, presenting, and joining live sessions. A teacher and student tracking camera follows the presenter so remote students always see who is speaking, while ceiling microphones and speakers carry clear audio across the whole room.

For lecture halls and auditoriums, a digital podium gives the presenter one station to control content, sound, and capture. Because PeopleLink designs, assembles and manufactures these parts as a single OEM, they are tuned to work together, which is what keeps the experience the same in every classroom on campus.

Built for In-Person, Remote, and Recorded Learning

The same room supports three modes of learning without a separate setup for each. In person, the panel and audio make the session clear for everyone seated. For remote learners, the tracking camera and room microphones deliver a class that is easy to follow rather than a fixed, distant view. And every session can be recorded for revision, exam preparation, or students in different time zones.

This matters most for institutions with more than one campus. A standard classroom build, repeated across locations, means a guest lecture delivered once can reach every campus at the same quality, and a student who misses a class can catch up from the recording. PeopleLink’s virtual classroom solutions are designed around exactly this kind of multi-campus reach.

Why Institutions Standardise on a Single OEM

When cameras, audio, displays, and software come from different vendors, a fault in one device often means several support calls and a room that stays down. With PeopleLink as a single OEM, the institution has one point of accountability for the whole room, one support path, and a repeatable design it can roll out classroom by classroom.

The result is a campus that is easier for the IT team to run and a teaching experience that does not depend on which room a class happens to be in. For institutions planning a phased rollout, PeopleLink’s education solutions map the build from a single pilot classroom through to a campus-wide standard.

Where Smart Classrooms Make the Biggest Difference

The payoff is largest where distance or scale is the core challenge. Universities with several campuses use the same build to deliver one expert lecture to every site at once. Skill and vocational programmes use recording and remote access so working learners can attend without travelling. Institutions serving remote or underserved regions use clear room audio and tracking cameras to bring specialist teaching to classrooms that could never host it in person.

In each case the technology is not the headline; the reach is. A well-built room removes the barrier between a teacher and the students who need them, wherever those students are.

Frequently Asked Questions

A smart classroom combines an interactive display, a teacher and student tracking camera, clear room audio, and classroom software for content, capture, and management. Together these let one lesson reach students in the room, students joining remotely, and students watching a recording later.At a minimum it needs an interactive flat panel, a tracking camera, room microphones and speakers, and classroom software. Lecture halls often add a digital podium so the presenter can control content and capture from one station. PeopleLink supplies all of these as a single, tuned system.Most institutions start with one or two model classrooms, fix the standard build, then repeat it room by room and campus by campus. A repeatable standard keeps support simple and gives every class the same experience.Yes. PeopleLink designs, assembles and manufactures its cameras, audio, displays, and podiums, and builds the classroom software, so the parts are engineered to work together as one platform.