The “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend related to smartphones, tablets and laptops may ease the technology burden for enterprises large and small—yet at the same time it slows down communication networks because of increased bandwidth reliance. The results? Voices echo or break up on business phone service. Streaming audio and video are slow, choppy […]
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Check Out the Networking Behind the Largest Video Display in College Football
Daktronics fields a Dante audio network to support Auburn University’s Jordan-Hare Football Stadium display screen.
Auburn University’s Jordan-Hare Stadium—the tenth largest on-campus football stadium in the NCAA—is now home to the largest HD video board in college sports. Designed, built and installed by Daktronics, in Brookings, S.D., this massive 197×57 square foot LED video display is accompanied by equally impactful high-quality sound, delivered over IP by a Dante audio network […]
How Does Internet of Things Work in the Real World?
The Internet of Things is going to make a serious impact on how we interact with the world. You’ve heard that a lot, but what does it mean?
“Who here has read Flatland?” asks Andrew Milne, Ph.D., the CEO of Tidebreak. The novella takes place in a two-dimensional world wherein the inhabitants tell each other apart by making contact and discovering the shape of those around them. The main character, a square, one day comes across a circle. That circle then shrinks and […]
Chicago’s Green Learning Center Gets a New Video Wall
This installation launches a strategic alliance between NanoLumens and DIRTT to bring fine-pitch LED displays to the corporate interior design market.
The traditional LCD video wall that has been the mainstay of the corporate interior design market is about to become a thing of the past — thanks to a new initiative launched by DIRTT Environmental Solutions, a leading provider of highly customized pre-fabricated interiors, and NanoLumens, the industry-leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor and outdoor […]
Maintaining Collaboration through Multiple Simultaneous Projects
Let’s face it, our employees are rarely working on one thing at a time. As always, employees must juggle multiple projects. How do we ensure that they are effectively collaborating throughout?
Agility has become a virtue in many companies. Rather than asking a department or an employee to work on a single project through completion, then begin working on the next, companies have found value in placing multiple eggs in different baskets. Different departments work together on different projects in order to multiply the amount of […]
EdTech’s Sweetspot: Empowering Teachers Through Technology
Schools adopt technology at different paces depending on a lot of factors. Regardless, technology is the future to empowering our teachers.
Technology has long been a part of education, with PCs and interactive whiteboards being a staple during the 90s and early 00s. However, technology has continued to evolve within the education sector as more and more institutions utilized web-based learning and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Some schools embraced social media, […]
5 Future of Work Collaboration Trends to Look Out For
Collaboration in the office is a growing and shifting trend. As new technology emerges, so do new ways to collaborate.
Collaboration in the workplace depends on a number of factors. Age, for example. Depending on the generation they come from, an employee could be more prone to technological collaboration versus analog collaboration (i.e. on a whiteboard or paper). Even within technology, some employees may prefer face-to-face collaboration, in the same room. Others will prefer conferencing […]
Colossus Video Board Makes Battle at Bristol an Epic Experience for 160,000 Fans
Virginia Tech and Tennessee played before college football’s biggest crowd ever – and under the world’s largest free-standing center-hung display.
Every weekend in college football is a big deal, especially in the southern half of the U.S., but this weekend featured the undisputed biggest game in the history of the sport. Not only did the Battle at Bristol pit two of college football’s most successful teams—Virginia Tech and Tennessee—against one another, but it did so […]
Digital Audio Shines Light on Singapore Students’ Talent
Meyer Sound and Spectrum Audio Visual win the 2016 Integration Award in the K-12 education category for the Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system installation at the Singapore American School.
It’s safe to say that an auditorium or any large venue meant to host performances is pretty much nothing without good acoustics and speech intelligibility stemming from digital audio, but that was precisely the challenge one Singapore school faced with its 19-year-old auditorium. The Singapore American School (SAS) is an independent, non-profit, coeducational college preparatory […]
Communicate to the Brain: The Neuroscience of Communication
Anyone who has worked in the world of corporate communication for some period of time knows how important it is to have effective communication between coworkers, departments and stakeholders. Additionally, everyone knows how challenging that can be.
We all accept that human beings have different and unique ways of communicating, speaking, and interacting, and we have all had the experience of struggling to connect because of those differences. But new scientific research is revealing how and why we are different and building a better understanding of what we can do about it […]
