The most important part of A/V in a House of Worship is getting the message across. They want to put a message out about the liturgy and failure to deliver this message would defeat the purpose.  The message going through the A/V system needs to be intelligible. This mean more than just speakers that are loud.  Acoustic treatments cut down on reflections that decrease intelligibility. When you have sound coming out of the speakers reflecting off a wall, the sound arrives at different times, making the message unintelligible to the human ear. Treating the walls helps keep the sound coming.

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When there is an emergency in a school, you don’t have time to set off all the emergency systems individuallyyou just need it to happen. That’s why it’s important to integrate the Public Address/emergency notification system with all the other emergency systems in your facility. With Carehawk, all of the emergency systems can be triggeredinstantaneously. The Carehawk system can trigger contact closures for the emergency or lock down paging as well as door locks, visual messaging on TVs and emergency or lockdown strobes. The response is seamless and efficient. Depending on what kind of Carehawk system you have deployed, it can even send out email notifications. Visual messaging as well as email notifications can be especially helpful.

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Nurse call technologies can facilitate efficiency in spaces such as assisted living, clinics and other healthcare facilities. These systems provide real time information to healthcare staff on patient status and staff locations. This means addressing any problems or events happening in the healthcare space more rapidly. A typical system uses a networked system of call lights and tones for alerts, lavatory pull strings for immediate response help- even Real Time Location badges for staff to notify proper teams to respond to an event. As the US population ages, there are many more assisted living facilities and skilled nursing facilities.  Many.

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What is Sound Masking and why should you consider it? Sound masking is an audio technique that reduces annoying background noise and provides a sound buffer, keeping conversation private to develop a calming environment. It is engineered to fall into the same frequency level as human speech, sounding similar to soft airflow blending into the natural background. Sound masking is an immersive experience where speakers, also known as emitters, are methodically installed in a space to surround employees and guests no matter where they are in the room. Studies have shown that on average it takes 20 minutes for employees to get.

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A network based system allows you to support and manage the equipment in an easy manner. Remote access provides a number of key benefits to the end user and the support team of the system. It allows a technician or the operator to access the systems from anywhere they have an internet connection. This provides potential savings from not having to go to site to fix a problem and lowers costs from having to have staff onsite all the time. This also allows for addressing the problem in real time to fix or identify the problem. Then you can decide.

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In the summer of 2017, the Church of the Risen Savior was no longer satisfied with its aging sound system. So, began the move forward with their first audio update in almost three decades. Kevin Rotty, music director at the Burnsville, Minnesota-based church, was tasked with heading up the beginning steps in the process for the system upgrade. Helping with the research were some eager volunteers spec’ing different companies and equipment that would best work in the space. “One gentleman, who was retired from the airline industry, helped me put out the requests for proposals and quotes, spending almost the entire summer.

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A network based system has user benefits beyond even ease of use and efficiency. There is flexibility in a network based system which sets it apart from other kinds of systems. There is more room for change and movement in distribution and control, input and output. It’s also easy. It is easy to route sources to multiple locations from different end points. The end points can be scheduled and monitored. And it’s easy to manage the entire system, from the IT perspective. All content can be on a central server and any network access (with the proper credentials of course) can.

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There is ease and efficiency in a network based system as design flows into installation. There are common wiring practices throughout installation. There is no need for specialized termination skills as industry standards for data cable termination are used. It is easier to pull, install and run. The end point wiring ends up in racks in the user’s IDF or MDF networking rooms. These end up on patch bays or switches and can be routed just like normal data. Ultimately, there is less equipment in the room. There are fewer central locations for head end gear. Each designated area has a head.

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Designing a networked audio/video system is different than designing a traditional audio/video distribution system. Designing a network-based system means designing with simplicity. It considers the end user and the network requirements to handle data traffic. The system revolves around IT infrastructure for distribution. This makes it easy to integrate into a corporate network infrastructure or create its own A/V network. The Audio/Video is transmitted over network cables rather than traditional HDMI distribution. The result tends to be more efficient because there are fewer components within the design. Designers remove devices like matrix switchers and baluns. They consolidate the equipment into.

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