Government

The combination of IoT, big data, and AI is making cities smart—how can AV integrators  get in the game?

The City of Shavano Park, San Antonio, TX updated its city council chambers with TEKVOX's ViewVault recording technology.

Event organizers hired APG Rentals to install a temporary 5 x 12 tile 2.9 mm LED Hyper Pixel video wall.

The number of registered visitors by the end of the show had reached 80,923, an increase of 10.3 percent on the 2017 edition. Importantly, almost 20,000 visitors attended the last day of the show.

Professor Carlo Ratti, architect, engineer, and inventor who directs the Senseable City Lab at MIT, believes that the future is full of possibilities about how we want to work and play—and technology is the enabler of those possibilities. He places special emphasis on the idea of convergence: the convergence between different technologies, and the convergence between the digital world and the physical world.

Ask Jeff Von Horn, sales and engineering manager, and Joe Jackson, market manager of AVI-SPL’s Control Room Group what's the biggest AV game-changer for command and control rooms in 2018, and they both agree.

ISE is the biggest audiovisual event in the world.

The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) law, first passed in 1990, was updated in 2008 (ADAAA, the American with Disabilities Act) to broaden protections across employment practice and agencies, state and local governments, labor unions and private entities of public accommodation. The changes in the definition of disability introduced a greater need for captioning services in every aspect of the public sphere.

In the professional AV industry, from ISE to InfoComm, systems integrators get a lot of fanfare. Rightfully so.

The Technology Manager's Guide to Remote Monitoring

Imagine the internet is the system of roads we use every day to get to work, run errands, visit family and friends, etc. Now that the internet has been “freed” a third party can decide which roads you can use and which you can’t.

On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal the Open Internet Order, effectively ending the net neutrality provisions that classified consumer broadband service as a public utility under the Title II Order of the Communications Act of 1934.

Should command and control centers be equipped with 4K and 8K video systems—and how should you go about it?

Focusing on innovation and OLED, LG showcased its latest solutions at its New York Roadshow during the recent New York Digital Signage Week. The well-attended event gave attendees the chance to test drive LG’s latest suites and introduce AV pros to LG’s partners, like TSItouch, Chief Manufacturing, Appspace, and Ping HD.

Connected TechExpo (CTE), the world’s first trade show and conference exclusively dedicated to technologies for smart buildings and cities, is set to debut October 17-18, 2018, in Las Vegas, NV. The show and conference was created to serve the needs to professionals who design, manage, and implement lighting, controls, security, and IoT in smart environments.

Datapath has begun shipping the VSN982 and VSN1182 next-generation video wall controllers. These controllers follow the introduction earlier this year of the VSN972 and VSN1172.

NewBay's AV/IT Weekly Update, sponsored by Datapath, puts industry news in context for IT and AV professionals.

"Context and data matters, but we can’t lose sight of the end user experience."

"While audiences are flocking to new screens and platforms, it’s the content producers who have the most to gain in a new digital world,” said Belsasar Lepe, co-founder and SVP of products and solutions at Ooyala. “That's where new, IP-based solutions can help streamline production workflows and provide greater efficiency and flexibility to adapt as the market changes."

AV/IT Talks are short (10 minutes in length), TED-inspired presentations. Each AV/IT Talk succinctly and passionately shares a recent AV/IT case study, design plan, new paradigm, and or challenge/solution. A brief Q&A follows each AV/IT Talk. The NYC AV/IT Leadership Summit audience will be approximately 80-90 attendees.

Launching in September, AVTE will become the dedicated knowledge center for European end user decision makers and AV/IT managers through its digital, social, events, and premium magazine channels.

Mercom Capital Group released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions activity for the healthcare IT and digital health sector for the second quarter and first half of 2017.