An audio and video system design can do more than just impress, though it is certainly capable of that. Many businesses are drawn to AV technology for various reasons, including improving the company’s appearance. However, many businesses need the advanced communications and training capabilities that AV technology offers, and these organizations invariably find that AV integration can help out their bottom line as well. But to get the most out of an AV upgrade, a company needs a talented expert who has the commitment to see the project through.

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But what do we mean by home automation

Home automation is when different technologies and systems are integrated together into a single control system which allows one system to automatically control another without you explicitly having to request every action.

Most homes utilise some form of independent technology or security system. Even if you are able to use any device to control it, it works in isolation. Smart technology should be able to communicate with each other to make sure a homeowner’s life is as relaxing and simple as possible. Home Automation provides the opportunity to include smart lighting, audio, entertainment, heating and renewable energy into one smart system.

SMART HOME SOLUTIONS

New build or current home, Home Automate have a smart solution. Every smart home system revolves around a central system, known as the miniserver. This central location allows you to start using simple devices and sensors to control various parts of your house, allowing all your electrical devices to work seamlessly together.

Overview

Video walls are becoming more and more popular in a large variety of verticals mainly as a result of new and innovative solutions that enable more capabilities in lower prices and higher accessibility.

Yet, the majority of organizations are still using controllers or Video Walls servers for their installations. Usually the results are disappointing: prices are still very high, centrally managing the units remains difficult and expansion of systems by end customers is impossible.

Components

1. Video Wall Display

The video wall display provides a largescale, high-resolution “visual canvas” for your content.

video wall displays are usually made from a tiled arrangement of monitors, panels, or projection screens. Tiling multiple displays together can create an extremely large, multi-HD display surface.

Video walls come in a large range of display technologies, including LCD, LED, projection cubes, blended projection, and more. Each display type offers unique advantages and limitations in terms of resolution, brightness, reliability, cost, and other factors.

Depending on the display type and mounting system selected, video walls can be built in flat, curved, or even three-dimensional shapes. They can be small enough to be portable or large enough

2. Video Wall Controller

The video wall controller connects your content sources to the displays. It lets you control what content is shown on the displays, when and where it appears, and how it looks.

Using IP streaming or physical inputs, the controller captures content from all of your desired sources – like video cameras, computer workstations, and cable boxes – making the content visible and accessible on a single interface.

Based on the commands you make through the control software, the controller sends content to the displays and lets you arrange, scale, and adjust the content in real-time. Some controllers also let you build and save content arrangements offline before displaying them.

The controller allows all of the individual displays in your video wall to work together as a single canvas. This means that content can be placed on a single display, stretched across multiple displays, or dragged across the display surfaces

3. Video Wall Software

Video wall software provides an interface for controlling your displays, controller, and source content.

Most video wall software provides a “dashboard” of the system, including a real-time view of the displays and a list of your available content sources.

At its most basic level, video wall software allows you to select content sources and place them on your displays in real-time. Most programs also include tools for adjusting the appearance of content – including scaling, zooming, and cropping tools, brightness and contrast controls, and so on.

Some video wall software offers special presentation-building functionality. This may include the option to build and save a sequence of pre-arranged content layouts, which can then be presented manually or automatically on the displays. Select platforms also offer custom labels, graphical transitions, and other tools for enhancing presentations.

Need a sound system to play background music or make announcements in a restaurant, school, warehouse, or other institutional building? A high-voltage system often presents the most economical, practical, and safest solution.

Keep your music licensed and legal

Under the Copyright Act of 1976, composers and musicians are entitled to collect royalties for each public performance of their work. When you play music for paying customers, you need a public license.

Benefits of a 70-volt system

Because the voltage is high, the current running through a 70-volt system is low. You can use thinner, less expensive speaker wires. The amplifiers in these systems don’t have “load impedance” issues. It doesn’t matter how many speakers you connect.

Speakers with adjustable power levels

The speakers in a 70-volt system are like houses connected to an electric power transmission line. Each speaker incorporates a transformer that steps down the high voltage to a level that the speaker can handle. The transformer has multiple taps to achieve different wattage levels for the speaker. The higher the wattage tap, the louder the speaker will play.

Acoustic treaments

We’ve covered the first two things you need for great sound: the right gear and good speaker placement. But there’s a third ingredient that’s often overlooked: acoustic treatments.

In most buildings, the first two ingredients aren’t enough. Even the best equipment may not sound too good in a room that has a lot of hard surfaces. Acoustic panels kill the echoes and reverberations that produce an uncomfortable level of noise.

PA systems

While 70-volt systems are perfect for background music and brief announcements, they aren’t the right choice for church services, live music, speeches, school plays, or any other kind of staged event. For that you need a separate PA system. Your system designer can help you

Types of Projectors    

One of the basic things to know when making a choice among different projectors is the throw distance of the various models. You will see it categorized as long throw and short throw. Throw refers to the distance needed between the projector and the screen you’re projecting on (also known as throwing the image) to get the desired display size

In addition to throw distance, you will need to be aware of the brightness needed for an effective display where you will use the projector. Brightness is expressed in lumens — the more lumens, the brighter the image. In a dark room, for example, 1,000 to 1,200 lumens should provide plenty of brightness, while a room with windows or more ambient light will require 2,000 lumens or more.

There are a few different aspect ratios to consider:

XGA projectors have a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and an aspect ratio of 4:3, giving a nearly square shape that is ideal for basic PowerPoint presentations and other business applications.

WXGA projectors have a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and a 16:10 aspect ratio, which works well for spreadsheets or other wider projections in an office environment.

HD projectors have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels with a 16:9 aspect ratio, which works best for home theater, photography or conference rooms where you need lots of detail and clarity.

4K projectors have a resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels and typically have a 16:9 aspect ratio, which improves upon HD resolution with crystal-clear images and lifelike color saturation.

Home Theater Projectors

Most home theater projectors produce images with high contrast, resulting in vivid colors and rich blacks for theater-like qualities. They work best in a room you can darken much like a commercial movie theater. Most home theater projectors require little in the way of setup beyond connecting power and plugging into one of the HDMI ports. Some even feature USB inputs.

Business Projectors

This projector is brighter than home theater models and works well in both business meeting and classroom environments. While primarily made to display static images such as PowerPoint slides or spreadsheets, these projectors may also be used for multimedia display by connecting a DVD player, laptop or another device via the HDMI port or USB connection. Business projectors are often designed to be lightweight and portable.

DLP (Digital Light Processing) refers to how the projector creates an image via tiny mirrors and a color wheel. DLP projectors render sharp images much like an LCD projector; however, DLP gives a theater look and feel to your video shown from Blu-Ray, DVD and HDTV sources. DLP projectors also feature smooth rendering on video and the ability to show deeper blacks and high color contrast than LCD-based projectors. If your projector has a three-chip DLP installed, the images will render at an even higher quality. DLP projectors are often more portable and weigh less than LCD models, which means that most portable projectors are DLPs.DLP Projectors

LCD Projectors

LCD, which stands for liquid crystal display, delivers accurate color representation and sharp image quality of video and images, much like DLP. However, LCD projectors have their own advantages. While a DLP projector needs a darkened room for optimum viewing results, an LCD projector delivers a quality viewing experience in well-lit or dimly-lit rooms. The color sharpness makes LCD projectors ideal for showing video, 3D graphics or detailed data presentations with crystal clarity with no ghosting of the images. This projector type is generally quieter and more energy efficient than its DLP counterparts.

Portable Projectors   

Also known as pico projectors, portable projectors are compact, lightweight and lend themselves to presentations and screenings on the go. The average pico projector weighs in at just 3 pounds and is small enough to fit easily in a purse or briefcase for easy portability for both personal and business uses. They are ideally used with small groups of people to show presentations, movies and sports games.

HYBRID VIDEO INTERCOM

A hybrid system is wired between the outdoor station and the indoor video monitor just like a standard wired video system. But it also has Wi-Fi capability so you can add tablet PCs and smartphones with an app. This gives you the best of both worlds. It has the fast reliable connection between the camera and monitor that a wired system gives you, plus you can still take calls no matter where you are as long as you have a data connection on your device.

WI-FI VIDEO INTERCOM

There are a couple of types of Wi-Fi intercoms. The really low cost ones are called doorbell intercoms. Those doorbell units are not commercial quality but can be good for residential or light-commercial use. Then there are the commercial kind that can be used at security doors and gates and they include a keypad that can be used to enter codes to open a door or gate. This is what we call a Wi-Fi Video Intercom.

WIRED VIDEO INTERCOM

A wired intercom requires running wire between the monitor and camera, which can be expensive or impossible to do in some situations. However, once the cable is run then installation is very easy and you have an always reliable connection. One of the downsides is that you don’t have any mobility on the monitor side so you always have to walk over to a monitor to answer a call.

CELL PHONE NETWORK VIDEO INTERCOM

If you want some of the benefits of wireless video but your gate is too far away, you can use the AT&T or TMobile cell network to give you wireless benefits. It transmits video over a data connection for a low monthly fee. So no matter where you are, as long as you have an Internet connection on your phone, you can see and talk to visitors.

WIRELESS VIDEO INTERCOM

A wireless video intercom does not need Wi-Fi to communicate but rather it just sends data back and forth between the door camera and the inside monitor. However, we have one that does that but you can also use Wi-Fi to extend range or to also connect with apps on smartphones or tablet PCs. It’s sort of like the hybrid video intercom above but only the connection between the camera and inside monitor is wireless.

DOORBELL VIDEO INTERCOM

These are the lowest cost and most widely used systems that you’ll see sold everywhere. These are light-duty units that connect to your home’s Wi-Fi router and do all of there communication through your Wi-Fi router or over the Internet. They are very dependent on having a good Internet connection in your house.

Why sound masking?

In many environments that require speech privacy, employee concentration, or both, there’s simply not enough background sound (also called ambient sound), leaving occupants trying to work in a pin-drop environment. In fact, the background sound level in most offices is so low you can easily hear conversations and noise from up to 50 feet (15 meters) away.

Benefits of sound masking

Noise control

Speech privacy

Improved productivity

Lower project costs

Facility flexibility

Quick ROI

What does sound masking sound like?

The sound masking “sound” has most often been compared to softly “whooshing” air, although it’s actually a specifically engineered blend of frequencies that’s perfect for covering up speech and incidental noises.

Sound masking makes a building seem quieter by raising the ambient noise level of an environment and making speech noise less intelligible and therefore less distracting. When you can’t understand what someone is saying, their words are less distracting — in fact, you probably don’t even notice them.

Sound masking is an ambient sound, similar to the sound of airflow, that’s specifically engineered to the frequency of human speech you can target conversational distractions and make them less distracting. Sound masking does not cancel sound or eliminate all speech noise in an environment; it simply reduces how far away conversations can be heard and understood by others, which we call the radius of distractions

How Does It Work?

In office spaces, the background noise level is generally low. Hence, people unintentionally overhear conversations – a difficult situation for all concerned. To address this problem, sound masking systems emit a soft, inconspicuous background sound with the use of a loudspeaker system. The ambient sound level becomes more uniform and otherwise noisy distractions are muffled by the sound masking.

Sound masking makes undesirable conversations and other noise distractions less audible. The result: Employees are less distracted, they are able to concentrate better, and their productivity rises measurably.

No matter what kind of business you run, we can install TVs throughout to ensure you get the look you want. While TVs are typically needed in businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and hospitals, they are also needed in other types of businesses. Even if your business doesn’t require working cable television, we can customize your TV plan you can display important information, advertising, and more.

Commercial TV installation can be done in a variety of different businesses, such as:

Bars and restaurants

Hotels and resorts

Senior housing facilities

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities

Apartment complexes

Our TV mounting and home theatre installation services provide a range of brackets to suit various wall types and room layouts, including swivel, tilt, ceiling and stud wall mounts. All jobs are fully insured and we guarantee 100% satisfaction. We take the time to show our customers how to operate their entertainment system. We provide expert and knowledgeable installers who are committed to providing quality and meticulous workmanship at an affordable price.

We offer TV and projector mounting, pre-wiring & wiring of speakers, home theater installations and more! We have over 10 years of experience & knowledge in the TV and home entertainment industry, and will always provide the best customer service! We guarantee a clean installation every time with the highest quality materials and name brands products for the best price! Additionally, we offer television installation services on decorative surfaces, including but not limited to brick, stone, and marble.

A home theater system will bring magic and excitement to all your video entertainment.

Consider the following when shopping for home entertainment systems:

Always match the speaker system to the size of your living or media room. If you don’t have much available space, look towards a compact soundbar instead of a multi speaker home theatre system.

Speaker power is measured in Watts. In the broadest terms, the more Watts a speaker has, the louder it will be. Be aware, however, that power is not the same as sound quality.

Where possible, shop for home theatre products with built-in WiFi or Bluetooth as these will enable you to wirelessly connect your mobile devices and enjoy playback with a big sound.