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We are giving a warm welcome to the newest addition of our sales team, Paul Ruzynski. Paul has been in the AV industry for 31 years. He specializes in commercial AV and conference rooms. He finds the industry fascinating and loves talking to all different kinds of people. Paul moved here from Maryland to be a part of EDC. He is excited to be part of a growing and thriving team. Welcome Paul- we are glad to have you on board!
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We are Hiring! EDC is looking to add to its Sales Engineering Staff. As the most technical member of the account support team, you will be responsible for working with an Electronic Design Client Services Manager and a Project Manager to meet with customers to determine their communication system needs. Your technical input regarding new or retrofit systems will be critical in providing a solution that will satisfy technical and budgetary requirements. After review and collaboration with your team you will be responsible for the system design, cost estimates, and technical presentation. Through ongoing education; you will maintain a comprehensive.
Our clients need to be on the forefront of changing technology. We are passionate about ongoing growth, knowledge and helping others to pursue the same. In K-12 and higher education, it is important to help the next generation of leaders succeed with continual learning. Critical AV is becoming more and more vital in how we communicate and teach. It helps teachers teach and students learn. This idea also extends to training rooms in corporate spaces. Just like in primary and secondary schools, ongoing education and training is important for our clients’ employees. It helps them stay up to date with.
In loud environments, visual communication for emergency notification is needed. Many facilities choose strobes for emergency communication. Some schools install amber and blue strobes in the hallways which indicate severe weather or emergencies. In very loud in spaces such as gymnasiums or band rooms, overhead paging can get masked. Strobes can notify students and staff to quiet down and listen to the emergency page. These notifications can be triggered by the Carehawk paging system through programming. The combination of visual and audible messaging increases the possibility of people reacting to the emergency more quickly. Visual messaging also benefits students or staff with hearing impairments. The same type of notifications can.
Emergency notification systems are vital to life safety in schools. There are emergency pages, strobes, alarm systems and emergency texts. But what else can you do? One option is adding digital signage in schools to convey emergency notifications. New school designs might include an all IP-based system. This will allow for the integration of audio pages with visual messaging on digital signage. Digital displays in schools can have several kinds of messages. The display can inform staff and students about school events, lunch menus etc. But it can also be used for emergency notification in the event of a lockdown..
We provided and installed a brand new digital audio mixer in the Excelsior United Methodist Church in Excelsior, MN. The new mixer is positioned behind all the pews and in front of the beautiful stained glass window that spans from floor to arched ceiling. The old mixer was antiquated and this new mixer brought them up to date. They use it for choir, band and vocal sermons. The church’s music and technician team received training to ensure that they understand the new system and how to mix the audio to their specific needs. We also conducted a voice intelligibility test,.
Electronic Design Company would like to congratulate Virak, one of our technicians, on passing his Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) exam! Technicians and others train for the CTS in all areas of design, installation, integration and operation. Passing means also completing continuing education and training, which we regard highly here at Electronic Design Company. We currently have 5 EDC employees with CTS certifications and 2 with CTS-I’s.
Assisted listening has changed in venues such as Houses of Worship (HOW). In the past, patrons used a headset provided by the House of Worship. However, that meant they needed to have many on hand, they had to make sure they were charged or had batteries and patrons might not be familiar with the device. And let’s not mention the cleanliness of the device. Now there is technology where users can receive audio directly to their smartphone using a free app. They use their own smartphone and their own headphones and connect right over the venues wifi. This assisted listening.
An (ALS) Hearing Induction Loop transmits the spoken word into a user’s hearing aid. This allows the hearing impaired to receive emergency notifications and the auditory pages made every day at MSP Airport, making the space easier to navigate for people who wear hearing aids.
