As the holidays approach, families come together from far and wide. Traditionally, many of those families spend time together by attending church or temple to celebrate their faith. If your House of Worship is in need of upgrading your audio and visual systems, doing so before the holiday rush could make the difference in delivering an outstanding holiday message. Assess Your Current Systems Old, crackly speakers are a good warning sign that it’s time to upgrade. People come to hear the Word, not feedback. Investing in quality sound improves intelligibility. Understanding what is being said is paramount to the worship.

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Designing a conference room that optimizes how your business operates is essential, and its impact is felt in your company’s performance daily. From holding key internal meetings to hosting client events, your conference room must be functional, dexterous, and promote creativity and productivity. How does your company strike that balance? Consider your options when you are building or updating your next conference room. Below, EDC highlights some important elements to keep in mind for creating your next conference room. Functionality Creating the right atmosphere within your conference room creates a space that inspires trust and productivity with clients and employees.

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One of our clients is a large corporation with many remote manufacturing facilities. Because of this they have a unique emergency communications system. This client adopted a hub and spoke model for emergency communications. They have a centrally located command center connecting the facilities. If there is an emergency, the procedure is to call the command center. The command center personnel assess the level of emergency and take the appropriate action needed. It may be a call to 911 and/or issue their own alerts that are sent out to the entire building network. The system runs on a supervised redundant network so that all the facilities are connected with emergency overhead.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.  

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Technology just doesn’t last as long as it used to. Everything is going to computer-based technology. 20-30+ years old analog systems can cause some major problems with clients. Their systems are so old they can’t accomplish all of their goals. 30 year old systems are not compatible with current technology and can mean that parts are no longer available when an upgrade is needed. But there is a DSP based solution that is updated with new software. The new system can do so much more and allows end users to do their jobs well. The benefits can include: wireless, bring.

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The IT Crowd asks: did you turn it on and off again? And we all laugh. But when it comes to really solving the problem, there is so much more than that. We have a client who had call stations in their intercom system that were not working. They needed a solution right away. The easy thing to do is power cycling. Sometimes it works and sometimes you need more. We had to find a solution to this problem that wasn’t a quick fix. We got to site right away, in this frigid and snowy winter. We removed all of.

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