Room monitor using cloud service

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system for performing testing of audio equipment in a conference room, the method executed by one or more processors, comprising: (a) commissioning the conference room with a set of audio video equipment, the set of audio equipment comprising one or more loudspeakers, one or more microphones, and audio signal processing equipment that includes at least an acoustic echo cancellation function; (b) determining an initial audio performance level in the conference room, and storing the initial audio performance level (IAPL); (c) determining that sound quality testing of the audio equipment in the conference room should be performed; (d) disabling the acoustic echo cancellation function in the audio equipment of the conference room such that an output from each of the one or more loudspeakers is not removed from a respective microphone output signal; (e) generating an electrical stimulus test signal and transmitting it to the one or more loudspeakers in the audio equipment of the conference room; (f) receiving an acoustic audio stimulus test signal generated by each of the one or more loudspeakers from each of the one or more microphones, and analyzing each of the received acoustic audio stimulus test signals to generate a current audio performance level (CAPL); (g) comparing the CAPL to the IAPL; and (h) determining if the audio equipment in the conference room passes or fails the sound quality test based on the comparison of the CAPL to the IAPL.