The award-winning F-Drive LED power system expands with the addition of F-Drive W1 Chroma. The wall-mounted LED driver is compatible with Navis 100 RGBW luminaires, offering a new solution to control colour-mixing LED fixtures. F-Drive makes the critical components controlling an LED system accessible, utilizing familiar category type cable with RJ45 connections. All F-Drive solutions control your LED luminaires via DMX with RDM configuration, management, and monitoring. For simple connection to Navis RGBW, the W1 Chroma offers a single output for up to four uniquely addressable luminaires. The driver is convection cooled, making it ideal for noise-sensitive environments. With the…
Author: James Robertson
HARMAN Professional Solutions recently teamed up with Swedish lighting supplier LiteNordic and Lighting Designer Johan Moritz to revitalise Malmö’s iconic Parking House Anna with a cutting-edge lighting design. Built in 1978, Parking House Anna was the first public parking garage opened in the Swedish capital of Malmö. In 2019, the aged building was renovated with a new façade made of sheet metal, plant walls and solar energy panels. The renovation was ordered by the municipal company Parkering Malmö and designed by NIRAS Arkitekter. In order to visually enhance the building’s new façade with bright and dynamic colors, Parkering Malmö hired…
Robe reveals a brand-new website, at www.robe.cz with a fresh contemporary look that is packed with useful information and resources for all. Robe.cz is an essential resource for all-things Robe, designed for speed, convenience, and ease of viewing, optimised for use with mobile devices which is a must for an industry of busy and smart individuals who are constantly on-the-go. Faster access to a greater amount of product-related information is a cornerstone of the new architecture. The site is curated to offer a lively mix of interesting data and multiple layers of technical depth for those needing to drill down…
Magewell is kicking off 2021 with the launch of its new Ultra Encode family of universal live media encoders. Supporting multiple encoding formats — including H.264, H.265, and NDI|HX — and a wide array of delivery protocols, the new hardware offers systems integrators, video professionals, and OEM partners a flexible and affordable encoding solution for applications ranging from live streaming and remote contribution to IP-based production and AV-over-IP. “While our Ultra Stream encoders continue to be extremely popular for users with fairly straightforward live streaming needs, integrators and high-end production professionals may require advanced capabilities such as additional formats or…
Navori Labs, in cooperation with integration partner Affinitech, continues to enhance a diverse and extensive digital out-of-home network on behalf of Life Time Fitness. Now live at all 150-plus club locations in the USA and Canada, the network was recently upgraded to Navori’s latest QL digital signage software to deliver a dynamic mix of club information, entertainment and advertising to more than 3,000 end points. Navori’s flexible, user-friendly QL 2.2 software release further simplifies the management of more than 10,000 weekly content combinations delivered across immersive video walls, interactive kiosks, tablet-controlled displays, and traditional digital signage screens. While Navori innovations…
When Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona decided to renovate its 50-year-old sanctuary, a principal goal was to hold both traditional and contemporary worship services in this one space — but without compromising the music program for either. At the same time, the church wanted to enhance the acoustical flexibility of the 600-seat sanctuary in order to host a range of special concerts and even classical music recording sessions. “We have a very spacious campus, with our sanctuary for traditional worship at one end and a multi-purpose space where we held contemporary services at the other end,” explains Russ…
Datapath has announced the world’s first fully integrated platform purposely designed for control room environments. Aetria from Datapath brings all the elements of control room design, management, control and monitoring into a single solution, allowing integrators and end users to design systems to meet a wide set of requirements, including connectivity, video walls, workstations and source management, ranging from small to very large installations. Aetria has been designed to make content sharing easy for operators, plus easy to control, manage and secure for administrators. It manages the underlying technology enabling users to focus on their primary objectives. Explaining the years…
PK SOUND has appointed James Oliver as Chief Strategy Officer. Reporting directly to Founder and CEO Jeremy Bridge, James is responsible for the development, communication, execution, and sustainment of strategic corporate initiatives. In addition to his role on PK SOUND’s senior management team, James has also joined the company’s ownership group. James comes to PK SOUND following a high-profile, seven-year tenure with Adamson Systems Engineering, most recently serving as Director of Marketing and Sales. Throughout that stint, he spearheaded the development of turnkey system offerings and a sophisticated global distribution network that led to exponential year-over-year growth for the manufacturer.…
MSolutions has refreshed its range of extenders with a new USB extender kit that expands bandwidth capabilities for users inside meeting spaces, classrooms, and similar AV environments. Available immediately, the new MS6U41A USB Extender Kit addresses emergent requirements for USB transmission. It is among the first to extend both a USB-C data source and four USB 3.0-compatible devices, including PTZ cameras, over distances up to 330 feet (100 meters) through a single network category cable. The MS6U41A adds value through bi-directional audio and additional data transmission capabilities. Its bi-directional analog audio channel can pass two audio channels between the transmitter…
Founded in 2003, Life Baptist Church in Las Vegas is an active ministry that until recently was holding five services each weekend in order to accommodate its growing congregation. After seven years in a building that only held 250, the church opened a new 700-seat sanctuary in December that features a modern Elation lighting system designed by Las Vegas-based consulting and contracting firm Embassy Services (www.embassyhold.com). Hired by project architect IZ Design, Embassy Services, which specializes in permanently installed production systems, served as consultant of record for the design of all the low-voltage systems in the new building – audio,…
