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As we consider the future of AI in AV, DVIGear brings you the first in a monthly series. of articles that look at the rapidly emerging, very real-world case for AI in AV. This first installment looks at how SDVoE and DVIGear have implemented AI Agents for speeding familiar AV workflows.
The SDVoE® Alliance and its member companies are establishing SDVoE as the AV-over-IP platform of choice for AI-assisted design, deployment, and support workflows. As corporate IT departments rapidly adopt agent-based tools across their technology stacks, the open, standardized nature of the SDVoE platform makes it uniquely suited to integration with these emerging workflows.
DVIGear, a leading manufacturer of digital connectivity products and a long-standing contributor to the SDVoE Alliance, is providing the first visible implementation of this direction with the release of DisplayNet® Connect for AI Agents. The product enables AI assistants and agent frameworks to configure, control, and troubleshoot DisplayNet systems through natural language, leveraging SDVoE with the DisplayNet API. DisplayNet Connect for AI Agents is built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) for broad compatibility with leading agent platforms, while the underlying integration approach is protocol-agnostic and can be extended to other agent interfaces as the ecosystem evolves.
A Platform Built for Open Integration
Unlike closed AV-over-IP architectures, the SDVoE platform was designed from the outset around an open, standardized API and a multi-vendor hardware ecosystem. This architectural openness, long a foundation of SDVoE interoperability, now provides a direct path for integration with the rapidly maturing landscape of AI agents and enterprise automation tools.
“The same characteristics that made SDVoE the right answer for AV/IT convergence make it the right answer for the agent-driven workflows that enterprise IT is adopting now,” said DVIGear President Steven Barlow. “An open API is a precondition for AI assistance. SDVoE has had one for years. DisplayNet Connect for AI Agents is the first product to make that architectural advantage tangible for our customers.”
Lower Barrier to Entry
Designing, deploying, and maintaining an AV-over-IP system has historically required deep familiarity with platform-specific control languages and APIs. With AI-assisted workflows layered over the SDVoE API, technology teams can express intent in natural language and let the agent translate that intent into valid system configurations. This significantly broadens the population of practitioners who can productively work with the SDVoE platform.
Faster System Creation
Configurations that previously required hours or days of programming work can now be generated in minutes. Natural-language inputs can be translated directly into working SDVoE system configurations through the agent layer (e.g. create a four-source video wall feeding the conference room and the lobby, with the lobby muted by default). Multiple custom front ends, role-specific control panels, and one-off integrations become economically viable in environments where they previously were not.
Faster Troubleshooting and Support
System diagnostics represent some of the most time-consuming work in AV-over-IP support. AI agents are well-suited to this category of pattern-recognition work and can dramatically compress the time required to identify and resolve issues, particularly when paired with the rich diagnostic outputs already available in the SDVoE platform. Complex problems like multicast, IGMP behavior, and HDCP handshake issues, can be understood and resolved in a matter of minutes with agentic log analysis.
A Platform-Wide Direction
While DVIGear’s DisplayNet Connect for AI Agents is the first publicly available implementation, the SDVoE Alliance is actively encouraging member companies to develop equivalent integrations across their own product lines. The goal is not a single-vendor solution, but a platform-wide standard for AI-assisted AV-over-IP workflows, consistent with the SDVoE Alliance’s founding mission of standardization, interoperability, and ecosystem development.
DisplayNet Connect for AI Agents is available now to all DisplayNet customers. For more information, visit DisplayNet.com.
About DVIGear
Since 1999 DVIGear has been a leading supplier of Digital Connectivity Solutions for a wide range of professional display applications. Located in Marietta, Georgia, USA, DVIGear offers an extensive portfolio of high-performance digital video distribution products, including: DisplayNet® AV-over-IP distribution systems, HyperLight® active optical cables, Switchers, Extenders, Converters, Scalers, and MultiViewers. For more information, visit DVIGear.com and DisplayNet.com.
About the SDVoE Alliance
The SDVoE® Alliance is a nonprofit consortium of technology providers collaborating to standardize the adoption of Ethernet to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, and to create an ecosystem around SDVoE technology allowing software to define AV applications.
