Introductions

• Olaf
  • hololens for a couple of experiments
    • some presentations for highschoolers
  • zero setup before pandemic and still bootstrapping remote ops
• Omar
  • Audio setup for control rooms
• Suresh
• Gilberto
  • before pandemic, looking into remote collaboration tools for remote help/assistance
• Hari
  • remote services, workflows and everything else
• Alex and Omar
  
  • Realwear, zoom, double, shurl mics for control rooms

LCLS (SLAC)

Tools for Remote Participation in Experiments

• video for slack was ok, not great, same for screen sharing

ALS

• has used some automation with Zoom to set up beamtime zooms
  • used in demonstration so far, not production yet
• cell
  • logitech pan-tilt 
• beamline zoom room link
  • not used much so far

APS

• investment in cameras for remote observation
• no-machine servers for user beamline operation
• Argonne pushing towards MS teams
  • video service is OK
  • schedule a weeklong meeting with the user
• shifting towards staff being remote to help on-site users
• three separate machines designated for different aspects of beamline operations accessed via nomachine
  • daq and analysis
    • axis cameras are hooked into this one
      • good optical zoom is very nice but also expensive
    • privacy cap available to cover the axis cam if desired (good idea)
• used: bluejeans, zoom, teams
• hmt-1
  • voice commands
  • probably using bluejeans at this time
• hololens
  • users like the fpv perspective
  • only with teams
  • remote access and guides