Business
Analysis: Ireland installed AV market survey
It’s a country that is often found in surveys to offer the highest quality of life anywhere in the EU. But does this satisfaction...
oct15
Case Studies
Solutions: High (-tech) water in Venice
Multimedia technology is helping to open up the debate around the importance of water, the environment and climate change.
Case Studies
Conferencing equipment: top 10 solutions to boost productivity
To improve meeting and conference productivity manufacturers have introduced features including browser-based control, feedback suppression and IP bridging on the latest scalable systems. Bosch...
Case Studies
Discreet and invisible technology: integrator and manufacturer collaboration
Having previously revealed how manufacturers are balancing performance and aesthetics, we consider the impact collaboration is having on different forms of discreet technology.
Case Studies
Discreet and invisible technology: balancing performance and aesthetics
While architects may traditionally have regarded AV equipment as a hindrance to their aesthetic vision, the recent growth in discreet designs means it is...
AV-IT
Hospitality venues: transitioning to 4K
We consider the benefits of implementing the Internet of Things and how far the hospitality sector is from 4K/UHD becoming an installation default across...
Case Studies
Hospitality venues: optimising new technologies
With the average consumer having access to an increasingly formidable inventory of AV on a daily basis, hospitality venues of all kinds have been...
AV-IT
Analysis: gesture-sensing control shipments grow
With emerging virtual reality games, smartwatches, smart TVs and other consumer electronics and IT applications entering the market, shipments of gesture sensing control user...
Technology
Demo of the month: Planar Clarity Matrix Video Wall Calculator
One of the most visually striking demonstrations that we saw at last month’s Midwich Technology Exposed was not a product that can be installed,...
Case Studies
Oil and gas: unique challenges
We conclude this oil and gas feature by revealing some of the industry's unique challenges, such as combining new technology with legacy infrastructure.
Case Studies
Oil and gas: visualisation solutions
In the first part of our feature on AV systems within the oil and gas industry, visual collaboration was revealed to be a key...
Case Studies
Oil and gas: utilising visual collaboration
Such is the turmoil in the oil and gas industry, it might seem that it’s not a great market for manufacturers and integrators to...
People
Interview: Peter Fell, Feltech
Rob Lane talks to the MD of Feltech about bridging the gap between AV and broadcast, as well as unified comms, staff loyalty and...
Case Studies
Opinion: Rob Lane on Microsoft Surface Hub
Shipping may be delayed, but Microsoft Surface Hub continues to turn heads. The corporate AV market is currently experiencing significant developments, in both technology...
Business
IBC 2015: show review
Paddy Baker reports from the Amsterdam show that’s increasingly outgrowing its traditional broadcast roots. As we’re frequently remarking in Installation, the worlds of broadcast...
Audio
Opinion: Byron Harrison on acoustic performance factors
Reverberation time should not be relied upon as sole indicator of a space’s acoustic performance. My company, theatre and acoustics consultancy Charcoalblue, has been...
People
Industry moves: company appointments for October
We reveal the personnel changes across the pro-AV industry for September/October. Absen extends its reach in the sports sector Absen has announced the appointment...