A number recent technological advances are enabling AV designers, integrators, and managers of control centers to rethink lifecycle planning, reduce the amount of video wall controllers, and share content with satellite rooms easily and securely. The price of AV over IP cameras has become cost-effective, making them the go-to for surveillance. However, some installations comprise hundreds of legacy analog cameras, making it impractical to replace all of them at once. Without an infrastructure or video control system that can accommodate both on the same network, facilities are burdened with ‘ripping and replacing’—or buying old camera technologies. Sharing mission-critical content from a central control room to a crisis room or another secure location is a desired feature—and now a trend. Until recently, this has required duplicate AV equipment for each room. We explore how control centers are becoming more scalable and flexible, while remaining secure.
Size is not a determining factor when it comes to mission-critical control centers. Video walls can comprise just a few displays receiving feeds from only a dozen cameras, to hundreds of inputs streaming on 64 displays.As facilities scale in physical size or the scope and their ...read more
Recent technological advances are enabling AV designers, integrators, and managers of control centers to rethink lifecycle planning, reduce the amount of video wall controllers, and share content with satellite rooms more easily and securely for their customers. Sharing ...read more
Every control room operator has a preferred workflow. They often have different mindsets on how they want to view or access the most important sources, sometimes depending on whether it’s coming from a map application, a train station software, or cameras. Being able to customize ...read more
The price of AV over IP cameras has become cost-effective, making them the go-to for surveillance. However, some installations comprise hundreds of legacy analog cameras, making it impractical to replace all of them at once. Without an infrastructure or video control system that ...read more
In the past few years, technology has created a sea change in user expectations affecting many aspects of business. Users expect to instantly share information such as video and data from one device to many, video conference with multiple people, enjoy security features such as ...read more
Unless a facility is building a new control center, it is unlikely to receive a fork-lift renovation of mission-critical AV equipment.“There are a lot of existing control centers that were deployed one, two, three decades ago,” says Anthony Ferreira, Solutions Engineer at ICON ...read more
When you have 350 CCTV cameras running on four servers surveilling public-facing areas of a hospital, migrating to a new control-room video distribution and video wall system is done methodically—and with caution.Kristian Sigston is the Equipment Services Co-ordinating Engineer ...read more
Industry-Leading Conference Phone Supports Natural, Clear Conversation Across 225 Zoom Rooms for Market-Leading Meeting, Event, and Hospitality Technology Leader SUDBURY, Mass. — Sept. 25, 2018 — Yamaha Unified Communications announced today that Cvent Inc., a market leader in ...read more
New Standards Simplify Distribution of Immersive Audio, Ensure Smooth and Consistent Playout on Various Immersive Sound SystemsWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Sept. 25, 2018 — SMPTE, the organization whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology and ...read more
It’s not uncommon for those on their way to summer camp to fuss over what to pack. Daniel Rethwill, however, knew exactly what he was going to bring: An Allen & Heath SQ-6 console. At the request of New Hope Christian College, Rethwill, of Eugene, Oregon-based AGI Rain Pro Media, ...read more
Players at The Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens, California take their poker seriously. In fact, the casino often hosts major tournaments in addition to round-the-clock play in their famed poker room. A recent $90 million renovation added a 200,000-square-foot building ...read more