High quality control solutions have taken a hardware first approach for a long time — but the arrival of smartphones and tablets is quickly changing this. Crestron has a new solution called Pyng that allows control of a wide variety of home automation features. The app (which is available for the iPad) allows access to…
Like any type of technology the AV industry has its own vocabulary, one that can become a little confusing if you are not used to it. This Digital AV glossary from Extron is a great place to figure out the meaning of various terms used when referring to digital AV.
Here are few of the terms…
A lot of time, attention and expense usually precedes the implementation of video conferencing equipment for an organisation — but the eventual performance can be disappointing if certain aspects of the rooms themselves are overlooked.
In this video interaction, Sachin Prabhudesai (who has over 15 years of experience with AV implementation) discusses some of the more…
We're happy to share that the Actis Lighting and Energy Management team recently won an award in the commercial (enterprise) segment for our work on implementing Lighting Management Systems (LMS) in India.
Lutron is one of the world's leading solution providers in the area of lighting control and management systems.
At Actis, we've been working on implementing Enterprise Collaboration or Unified Communications (UC) with clients for several years. The experiences we've had, point to problems in "Bridging the IT-AV divide" as a key issue that trips up implementation of enterprise collaboration. This is usually because either the IT and AV systems (or people) aren't working…
The early adoption of video conferencing in the education sector (and for learning/training applications) has been centered on its potential to enable distance learning.
But there are several other benefits (beyond distance learning) that video conferencing infrastructure can bring to classrooms — which include lecture capture/recording and live streaming. In this Cisco video case study, you…
How we present our ideas is constantly evolving, as our audiences and the technologies available to use continue to evolve.
This set of predictions from Slideshare provides some very interesting insights into how presentations are set to evolve and provides directions on how we can adapt and improve.
Some key observations:
1. Solutions like Prezi are now catching…
As Networked AV (the coming together of AV and IT) adoption becomes prevalent in enterprise
environments, the sheer number of AV devices to be managed is growing exponentially.
But unless they are managed properly, these AV devices can also become the source of challenges to
confidentiality and security from both within and without the corporate network.
The article,…
Making unified communications a reality for your business has long been easier said than done. But clearly this is a vision where the technology which is finally coming of age.
This report from Infocomm International (the global trade association representing the professional audiovisual and information communications industries) describes the "5 Trends Changing Unified Communications" and identifies…
Auditoriums present a diverse set of challenges especially when it comes to combining AV, lighting and environment controls to make events easier to manage in various types of scenarios. This project (for an educational institution), involved the integration of video conferencing and lighting to help the facilities team to manage live events in a 350-seat…
When it comes to big screen displays, there are few rooms that can top this multi-purpose room that we've just created for the New Delhi office of one of the world's largest financial institutions.
The 20-seater multi-purpose hall is equipped with a 103" Plasma display AND 2 x 63" Plasma monitors to allow a variety of…
Here's a peek behind the scenes at a Conference Room we're designing for one of the World's largest banking institutions.
A key feature of this 20-seater, U-Shaped Conference room is the MASSIVE 95-inch Samsung LED monitor, which is one of the largest of its kind.
Key features of this Conference room include:
a full-HD Videoconference system
special…