1 Hotel Central Park Green Technology Build Out
This week’s Project of the Week winner is 1 Hotel Central Park. The technology build out features new, energy efficient lighting and other green technology initiatives.
Control & Automation
The Importance of an Architectural Approach to IT Automation
Gartner predicts that by 2017, “75 percent of enterprises will have more than four diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolios, up from less than 20 percent in 2014.” For many companies, however, it is likely closer to eight technologies, according to Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst Ronni Colville. This number is growing in […]
Key Digital Partners With Commercial Integrators and Consultants for Compass Control
Key Digital has long seen its Compass Control control system as a logical fit for commercial applications and now it’s doubling down on that commitment to commercial integrators and consultants. The manufacturer, known for its distributed video solutions, announces Compass Alliance Partnerships with a slew of commercial and pro AV manufacturers. Compass Control is a fully integrated control system designed […]
The Real Secret to Revenue Generation
Do you want to know a secret about how to boost your business’s 2017 revenue by three to five percent? Of course you do. The real question, then, is how? The answer might not be what you’re thinking: setting higher sales goals, and getting sales people to dig up more leads. The secret to generating […]
How One Company Is Moving Toward IT and Bringing AV Along
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes or Woodward and Bernstein to notice that something is up with Kramer. The AV solutions manufacturer appears restless and ambitious. It’s not just that Kramer, which had done little more than dabble in automation, launched at InfoComm 2016 Kramer Control aiming to virtually eliminate the need for programming with the […]
Students Build Writing Skills with This Auto-Grading Solution
More than a million. That’s the total number of words that instructors at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, needed to pore through each semester for College Composition I. Approximately 250 full- and part-time students take the course each year at the Arizona community college, which requires students to submit written essays totaling approximately 4,500 words […]
Amazon Alexa Voice Control for Videoconferencing?
Last month Dallas, Texas hosted a tradeshow dedicated to the audio visual industry. CEDIA is all about the residential segment of AV, but that doesn’t mean it has no impact on the commercial AV channel. One of the more significant bits of news to come out of the show last week was the integration of […]
CEO Says AI Will Become a Big Part of B2B Sales
Artificial Intelligence is a technology that many companies, such as Deepmind, have been fervently working to perfect in the past few years. Sooner or later, it seems, AI is going to be a real part of our lives. It will go far beyond Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, or Microsoft’s Cortana. One day we will be […]
How E-Paper Signs Can Solve Your Room Management Headaches
With all of the activities you have going on each day, you need a fast, easy space management system. Electronic paper room signs for your school could be the answer.
Kramer Control Makes Automation Programming Possible for the Layman
Kramer Electronics’ new cloud-based, drag-and-drop Kramer Control announced at InfoComm 2016 works on any interface, on any operating system and is designed to cut automation costs significantly by reducing programming to simple configuration.
