Throughout the public sector, AV is taking on an ever more vital role. “Collaborating, persuading, protecting and leading are all critical to effective governing, and AV technology plays a larger role than ever before,” says Rob Muddiman, EMEA sales director at ZeeVee. “Court rooms, public chambers, private offices and meeting…
“AV is used widely across the visitor attraction and entertainment sector, both to attract customers to the venue and to entertain and engage them once they’re inside,” says Eliot Fulton-Langley, solutions architect at CDEC. “The focus is very much on the user, creating engaging, unique and personalised experiences that can’t…
Sarner International combines concept design with system integration and finds a lot of requests focus on a vision of the end product as opposed to specific technology. “It’s down to us to find the right solution,” says MD, Ross Magri. “They may want holograms, for example, but that could be…
The abundance of highly capable, highly sophisticated and hugely powerful AV devices that have evolved over the years lend themselves to the leisure industry, delivering fantastic and in many cases, magical, experiences that absorb and enthral visitors and viewers to almost every public attraction or entertainment spectacular. Technology is changing…
The transport sector has a special appeal to the AV industry, as it delivers one of AV’s Holy Grails: a captive audience. “Waiting is an integral part of travelling, which makes it a unique environment for AV,” says Jeff Hastings, CEO of BrightSign. “A good, joined-up AV strategy is essential…
The retail sector is under siege. The continued expansion of the online shopping experience – with online behemoths even having the temerity to open their own high street outlets – along with the continued uncertainty of Brexit, real-wage stagnation and the long shadow of years of austerity, are all combining to batter…
AV technologies continue to make a huge impact in modern medicine, with pro AV sales in the healthcare sector expected to reach global double-digit growth by 2022, according to AVIXA (2017 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis – IOTA). Technological disruption in healthcare has become extensive in recent years, with…
“AV has gone from being an addition to the hospitality experience to becoming the expectation,” says Bill Lally, president of specialist integrator, Mode:Green. “In providing new music experiences for guests and new control applications for management and staff it will continue advancing the hospitality experience. Technologies such as high-resolution audio,…
Remember the days when a conference speech or product launch involved no more props than a lectern, a microphone and a couple of banners? No, neither do I. Today virtually every business event relies on technology to engage its audience and big up its message (or conceal its shortcomings). “I…
Oil and gas is an industry where people and machines are tested to the limit, so it’s an ideal proving ground for AV systems and the companies that supply them. “The oil and gas sector has long been an early adopter of emerging AV technologies,” says Haroutioun Ohannessian, MEA director…
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