Getting meetings under way faster and more efficiently can contribute to cost savings and productivity gains, as Intel highlighted in its annual IT performance report on Monday.

Intel has established more than 500 “wireless” conference rooms where meetings start within seconds of everyone gathering. The collaboration and sharing tools are instantly deployed wirelessly, which has helped save time and money, said Steve Sciarappo, vice president at Intel’s information technology group.

That wireless concept will be expanded this year, Sciarappo said. The underlying technology behind wireless conference rooms is Intel’s homegrown Unite toolset, with which users can also share room resources like whiteboards and monitors and invite remote participants to meetings. The Unite technology is available on Intel PCs with vPro chips.

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