Category: InfoComm 2022

The Road To InfoComm 2022 With VuWall

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InfoComm is coming back in full force June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AVNation is counting the days to the event by talking to exhibitors and experts in the AV industry about what will be coming to the show. We sit down with VuWall’s Director of Marketing Anna Kozel to discuss what they will have in store at booth N1569 in the North Hall.

All of our coverage of InfoComm 2022 can be found here.

AVNation is a news outlet made by and for audiovisual professionals. Every one of our panelists, writers, producers and hosts have worn a hat or several within the AV industry. It’s this unique experience that gives us a fresh look at the industry as a whole and allows us to engage with end users, technology managers, IT managers and AV integrators in a meaningful way. Everything that AVNation does in events like InfoComm and CEDIA Expo are in part made possible by our supporters and underwriters who provide financial support for AVNation. If you have questions about the shows or have a unique experience to offer please contact AVNation by clicking here. We are always looking for different viewpoints within the AV industry.

June 2, 2022
The Road To InfoComm 2022 With LynTec

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InfoComm is coming back in full force June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AVNation is counting the days to the event by talking to exhibitors and experts in the AV industry about what will be coming to the show. We sit down with LynTec President Mark Bishop to discuss what they will be showcasing at Booth W2939 in the West Hall.

All of our coverage of InfoComm 2022 can be found here.

AVNation is a news outlet made by and for audiovisual professionals. Every one of our panelists, writers, producers and hosts have worn a hat or several within the AV industry. It’s this unique experience that gives us a fresh look at the industry as a whole and allows us to engage with end users, technology managers, IT managers and AV integrators in a meaningful way. Everything that AVNation does in events like InfoComm and CEDIA Expo are in part made possible by our supporters and underwriters who provide financial support for AVNation. If you have questions about the shows or have a unique experience to offer please contact AVNation by clicking here. We are always looking for different viewpoints within the AV industry.

June 1, 2022
PPDS Confirms InfoComm 2022 Attendance in Las Vegas with a Series of New Announcements Planned
PPDS has confirmed its participation at InfoComm 2022, introducing a slew of new products, people, and partnership announcements. The company will deliver a series of important business updates, including a brand-new range of products and solutions within its digital signage, video wall, and business TV range.

“We are delighted to be returning to Las Vegas and to be part of this year’s InfoComm event. InfoComm is one of the most important dates in the pro AV event calendar and we’re excited to be showcasing some of our latest and greatest Philips professional displays and solutions, supporting all key verticals, including retail, corporate, business and industry, and a growing area of focus: education,” said Vince Schuster, Vice President, Professional Displays, North America at PPDS.

The Philips stand will provide the first opportunity for partners in North America and beyond to view, experience, and receive demonstrations of some of the latest solutions unveiled in Barcelona during ISE 2022, including:
- Philips E-Line: A brand-new range of advanced interactive 4K displays for education, offering effortless wireless sharing and collaboration in and out of the classroom, and the first display from PPDS to feature a new generation of zero gaps, zero latency touch screen technology.
- Philips 6000 Series DVLED: A brand-new range of highly flexible, beyond 8K, direct view LED displays, bringing unrivaled performance and effortless bezel-free installations, designed to cater exclusively for 16:9 content, to meeting rooms, boardrooms, auditoriums, and lobbies.
- Philips 7000 Series DV LED: PPDS’ most energy efficient, high bright DV LED range to date, offering 3500 nits brightness – capable of coping with even the most difficult lighting conditions, including direct sunlight – unrivaled image quality and creativity to installations of any shape, size or location.
- Wave: An evolutionary new cloud platform unlocking the power, versatility, and intelligence inside Philips professional displays, designed for, and in collaboration with system integrators to install, control and manage Philips professional displays remotely from any location.
“ISE 2022 was a tremendous success for PPDS, and with the products and solutions now being confirmed and showcased for InfoComm, including the brand-new Philips E-Line interactive display for education, the Philips booth is one you won’t want to miss,” Patrick Van Treese, Education Sales Manager, North America at PPDS said.

To learn more about PPDS, please visit the website here.
June 1, 2022
The Road To InfoComm 2022 With RTI

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InfoComm is coming back in full force June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AVNation is counting the days to the event by talking to exhibitors and experts in the AV industry about what will be coming to the show. We talk to RTI’s Head of Global Marketing Bill Hensley about what we can expect at their booth at W2860 in the West Hall.

All of our coverage of InfoComm 2022 can be found here.

AVNation is a news outlet made by and for audiovisual professionals. Every one of our panelists, writers, producers and hosts have worn a hat or several within the AV industry. It’s this unique experience that gives us a fresh look at the industry as a whole and allows us to engage with end users, technology managers, IT managers and AV integrators in a meaningful way. Everything that AVNation does in events like InfoComm and CEDIA Expo are in part made possible by our supporters and underwriters who provide financial support for AVNation. If you have questions about the shows or have a unique experience to offer please contact AVNation by clicking here. We are always looking for different viewpoints within the AV industry.

June 1, 2022
The Road To InfoComm 2022 With Blustream

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InfoComm is coming back in full force June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AVNation is counting the days to the event by talking to exhibitors and experts in the AV industry about what will be coming to the show. We sit down with Blustream Product Manager Jason Fitzgerald to talk about what they will be showcasing at their booth at W2761 in the West Hall.

All of our coverage of InfoComm 2022 can be found here.

AVNation is a news outlet made by and for audiovisual professionals. Every one of our panelists, writers, producers and hosts have worn a hat or several within the AV industry. It’s this unique experience that gives us a fresh look at the industry as a whole and allows us to engage with end users, technology managers, IT managers and AV integrators in a meaningful way. Everything that AVNation does in events like InfoComm and CEDIA Expo are in part made possible by our supporters and underwriters who provide financial support for AVNation. If you have questions about the shows or have a unique experience to offer please contact AVNation by clicking here. We are always looking for different viewpoints within the AV industry.

May 31, 2022
The Road To InfoComm 2022 With The AIMS Alliance

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InfoComm is coming back in full force June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AVNation is counting the days to the event by talking to exhibitors and experts in the AV industry about what will be coming to the show. Today we are joined by Macnica’s Director of Product Management and AIMS board member Andrew Starks to their live interoperability demonstration with the IPMX standard at their booth at W1067 in the West Hall.

All of our coverage of InfoComm 2022 can be found here.

AVNation is a news outlet made by and for audiovisual professionals. Every one of our panelists, writers, producers and hosts have worn a hat or several within the AV industry. It’s this unique experience that gives us a fresh look at the industry as a whole and allows us to engage with end users, technology managers, IT managers and AV integrators in a meaningful way. Everything that AVNation does in events like InfoComm and CEDIA Expo are in part made possible by our supporters and underwriters who provide financial support for AVNation. If you have questions about the shows or have a unique experience to offer please contact AVNation by clicking here. We are always looking for different viewpoints within the AV industry.

May 30, 2022
SDVoE Alliance Delivers Path to Certification at SDVoE Academy Stage Live at InfoComm 2022
The SDVoE Alliance, a nonprofit consortium of technology providers collaborating to standardize the adoption of Ethernet to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, announces a comprehensive, free program featuring in-depth education sessions for system integrators, designers, consultants, installers and manufacturers. The SDVoE Academy Stage provides attendees with the opportunity to take advantage of the only signal management platform that offers matrix switch performance, advanced AV processing, AV-over-IP functionality and interoperability supported by over 40 companies.

The SDVoE Academy Stage is located in booth W423. The SDVoE Alliance will host new sessions that will be presented every half hour over the show’s three days. More than 30 educational sessions will focus on industry topics, including case studies, AV-over-IP education and technology trends. The SDVoE Academy Stage will feature new topics, including:
- Sustainable, Flexible, Available AV over IP with SDVoE presented by Justin Kennington, SDVoE Alliance
- AV Requirements for Esports Arenas presented by Eric Farkas, Black Box
- The Relevance of USB2 Extension in a USB3 World presented by Tavis Sparrow, Icron
- Found in Translation: SDVoE in European Parliament presented by Brent Tremblay, IDK AV
- Advanced Multiview Capabilities of SDVoE presented by Art Weeks, ZeeVee
- Network Architectures for Ultra-Scale AV over IP presented by Laurent Masia, NETGEAR
“The SDVoE Academy Stage at InfoComm 2022 will focus on trending topics in the industry, such as the convergence of AV and IT, and highlight emerging solutions, such as sustainability in AV, and the SDVoE ecosystem’s approach to ensuring product availability,” said Justin Kennington, president of the SDVoE Alliance. “The sessions will highlight the current evolution and the future of AV-over-IP solutions focusing on IT. Our goal is to introduce SDVoE education to a broad new audience, who can continue their education and path towards SDVoE certification in the free online SDVoE Academy.”

Attendees will learn how to leverage the SDVoE standard for high performance AV network deployments in education, healthcare, enterprise, entertainment, hospitality, retail, houses of worship, government, military, industry, and security. After the show, all sessions will be available online via the SDVoE Academy at: www.sdvoe.org/academy. Individuals interesting in registering for in-person sessions during InfoComm 2022 can sign-up online at https://sdvoe.org/events/infocomm-2022-register/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=infocomm2022-academystage&utm_term=&utm_content=.

Visit the SDVoE Alliance in booth W423 at InfoComm 2022 from June 8–10, 2022. For more information on the SDVoE Alliance, please visit www.sdvoe.org.
May 30, 2022
ENCO to Showcase Automated Captioning and Transcription Innovations for Pro AV at InfoComm 2022

Fresh off its world premiere at the 2022 NAB Show, ENCO is bringing a preview of its fifth-generation, AI-enhanced enCaption automated captioning and transcription solution to InfoComm 2022 with a focus on use cases in professional AV and live event environments. Demonstrations of enCaption5 in booth N2213 will showcase powerful enhancements including a new, cloud-native architecture; expanded multi-language translation capabilities; integrated caption editing; and a new open API for seamless integration.

The award-winning enCaption platform makes it fast, easy, and cost-effective for AV professionals, content producers, and broadcasters to create transcripts and add closed or open captions to both live and pre-recorded AV content. enCaption combines machine learning with advanced speech-to-text conversion and grammatical structure analysis to deliver exceptional accuracy with extremely low latency.

enCaption5 has been redeveloped from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservices-based solution to take full advantage of public cloud infrastructure, eliminating the need for on-premises capital equipment when captioning or transcribing file-based content. enCaption5 can also be deployed on-premises or in hybrid on-prem/cloud workflows for customers who need traditional AV signal connectivity for live captioning and transcription, or who prefer an on-premises solution. Flexible new pricing options for cloud-based enCaption5 deployments make the platform even more cost-effective for customers such as houses of worship, municipalities, and live event producers with only periodic or ad hoc captioning and transcription needs.

enCaption5 turned heads during its NAB Show debut with its modernized, web-based user interface. The intuitive UI offers selectable light/dark modes to adapt to different usage environments and allows users to remotely control enCaption5 through a web browser from anywhere – whether down the hall, across campus, or across the country.

The newly enhanced enTranslate automated translation plug-in for enCaption5 lets users easily make AV content such as corporate meetings, government sessions, lectures, sermons, and training materials understandable to non-native-speaking viewers. Translated captions can be embedded into VOD content for subsequent viewing, or shown as open-captioned subtitles on local displays to assist in-person attendees during live events. New enTranslate functionality for enCaption5 includes unit conversion – such as metric to imperial measurements – with conversions automatically performed based on source and target languages. enTranslate supports over 50 languages including English, French, Spanish and more.

enCaption5’s new caption editor allows users to view and refine the results of offline or previous real-time transcriptions. Uploaded video files or recordings made during live captioning can be played back while displaying the automatically generated captions, with the current word highlighted as the video plays. Users can hover over words to see their confidence scores and edit them as needed – particularly useful for unique spellings such as uncommon names – and changes are fed back to enCaption5’s intelligent word models to improve future accuracy.

enCaption5’s new open API enables seamless integration with media asset management systems for indexing and searching, while also allowing third-party developers to leverage the advantages of ENCO’s proven, purpose-built captioning technology within their own solutions including comprehensive AV systems and conversational AI applications.

“Captioning, subtitling, and transcription have become increasingly important elements of stage presentations, meetings, live streams, and special events,” said Ken Frommert, President of ENCO. “These functions make live and pre-recorded content more inclusively accessible not only for hard-of-hearing participants, but also for non-native-language speakers and the massive audience of viewers who consume content on their personal devices with the sound muted. enCaption5 makes automated captioning easier and more cost-effective than ever before, and we’re excited to showcase it to AV professionals and systems integrators at InfoComm.”

The InfoComm 2022 exhibition will take place June 8 to 10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. enCaption5 is slated for release this summer.

May 27, 2022
NEARITY to Unveil 91-Element Beamforming Ceiling Array Microphone During InfoComm Debut
Conferencing solution innovator NEARITY is gearing up to exhibit at the annual InfoComm conference and exhibition in the U.S. for the first time. A highlight of demonstrations in booth W2639 will be the launch of the NEARITY A50 beamforming ceiling array microphone, which brings the company’s advanced audio technology and precision engineering to an elevated form factor for a wide variety of meeting spaces. The A50 will be shown alongside two additional new ceiling mic models and established NEARITY solutions at the event, taking place from June 8 to 10 in Las Vegas.

The NEARITY A50 is an integrated ceiling array microphone designed to provide optimal audio fidelity for video conferencing and in-room audio. The A50’s 91-element, omnidirectional microphone array combines with deep sidelobe beamforming to enable precise sound pickup for up to 12 independent lobes. This ensures that every word will be heard clearly by in-person and remote participants regardless of where the person speaking is located within the room – even while walking around. Meanwhile, automatic gain control enables every speaker’s voice to be heard with equal volume.

NEARITY’s advanced, AI-enhanced noise suppression and echo cancellation technologies enable crystal-clear sound while reducing distracting background noises and audio artifacts, while reverberation suppression substantially reduces or removes reverb even in challenging spaces. A single A50 unit provides effective pickup at distances up to 8m, while up to eight A50 units can be daisy-chained using standard CAT6 cable to extend audio capacity and provide complete coverage of larger spaces. Analog line-in, line-out, and USB interfaces on the A50 DSP enable easy interoperability with existing video conferencing MCUs. An included remote control provides easy end-user access to features such as the A50’s sound reinforcement mode.

The A50 is one of three ceiling mic models being introduced by NEARITY in the coming months to meet the varying voice pickup needs of different-sized meeting spaces. Two smaller models, the A30 and A40, are designed for flexible installation on sidewalls or suspended from poles in small and mid-sized rooms.

“Ceiling mics are no longer exclusively for use in ultra-large training rooms or luxuriously decorated conference rooms,” said Roy Wu, Director of Business Development, North America for NEARITY. “Our new family of ceiling mics expands the deployment possibilities to include everything from huddle rooms to mid-sized classrooms. We’re excited to showcase the A50 and other NEARITY audio innovations to InfoComm attendees for the first time.”

NEARITY will also showcase flagship products from its extensive portfolio of audio endpoints, all-in-one conferencing devices, PTZ conferencing cameras, and webcams. Additional demonstrations at InfoComm 2022 will include:
- The NEARITY A20 is a USB-connected speakermic, designed to improve conferencing experiences via an eight-element microphone array and AI noise suppression that intelligently reduces indoor background noises and maximizes voice clarity. The A20 provides plug-and-play operation and is daisy-chainable with other NEARITY devices.
- The NEARITY C30R all-in-one device features a 4K camera with 120° wide angle lens, speaker tracking, close-up grouping, and auto-framing. It combines these rich video features with a five-element microphone array, high-definition full-band speaker, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and AI-driven noise suppression for superior audio.
- The NEARITY V30 4K UHD conference camera features an 8MP HD image sensor, 120° wide-angle distortionless lens, and a four-element microphone array. The V30 provides outstanding audio and video for small and medium-sized conference rooms through intelligent functions such as auto-framing and AI-based noise reduction.
For more information about NEARITY, please visit nearity.co. NEARITY professional AV products are distributed exclusively in North America by Mobile Video Devices Inc. (MVD).
May 27, 2022
Jetbuilt to Unveil Service Platform at InfoComm

Project sales and management software developer Jetbuilt announced the addition of Service, the new module providing everything one would need from a service application. Service will be unveiled at InfoComm Las Vegas, June 8-10, where Jetbuilt is exhibiting at booth N663.

“The Jetbuilt community has been requesting this functionality for a long time,” remarked Paul Dexter, Jetbuilt Founder and CEO. “But first we needed to build everything that an efficient Service module relies on, including a fully developed sales platform, CRM, project management, and asset tracking. These all tie into a highly effective and, in many ways, automated service module.”

Service integrates with Jetbuilt’s existing asset tracking by giving end users the ability to scan a QR code on the back of an item that is malfunctioning. This creates a service case with a flag to contact the client for additional details and schedule service.

Whether a case is submitted from an end user or through the front office, details about the project can be accessed, including if a support package is attached, if the project is under an initial warranty, and what related equipment is part of that original installation.

The addition of Service rounds out Jetbuilt’s offerings as a comprehensive and robust project solution. Those who have not looked at Jetbuilt in a while may not be aware of how the platform has grown to provide effective functionality and powerful solutions for all aspects of a project from beginning to end.

Those solutions include Funnel, which tracks leads and helps turn prospects into clients. Stock tracks inventory from warehouse to installation. Install manages tasks and installation time, while JEL, the Jetbuilt Engineering Lab, provides engineering services, such as CAD and Revit drawings, 3D renderings, and more.

For more information on Jetbuilt, please visit Jetbuilt.com.

May 27, 2022