Streamline Video Wall Control and AV-over-IP Distribution with Unified Visualization

Original Source: https://vuwall.com/unified-visualization-solving-avoip-challenges/

IP-based network protocols enable users to distribute high-quality, low-latency video and audio content over standard internet networks in real time. The AV-over-IP revolution is transforming methods for content distribution across corporate offices, higher education campuses and in control rooms. However, the rapid adoption of AV-over-IP has created challenges for seamlessly managing and deploying content across different devices. This article explores these challenges and outlines how unified visualization solutions can solve them.

Let’s Start With the Challenges

• Ever growing amount of information: Visual information can be collected and shared in many different ways. The challenge with the ever growing amount of information, is easily finding the relevant content and sending it to the appropriate display(s) or video wall(s).
• Future technologies: Often, new technology solutions do not pair with legacy systems, and this necessitates an entirely new AV system. The challenge is selecting future-proof solutions that integrate with new technologies but continue to work seamlessly with existing legacy systems.
• Application changes: Technology should support constant change, whether environmental, seasonal, new staff or new conditions. The challenge is creating a system that is agile, flexible and easy to adjust without needing to reprogram the system.
• User experience: Different users interact with technology differently. The challenge is integrating technology that allows for a customized user experience without requiring a trained programmer to support the system. This is especially important in environments with a wide range of users, such as teachers, students, operators and supervisors.

Corporate offices, higher education campuses and control room environments are common multi-room ecosystems. The spaces often include conference rooms, training rooms, control rooms, crisis areas and private office spaces. Information sources need to be available and accessible for the different display solutions in each room. The problem is that the technical requirements in each room are often different.

How Do We Solve These Challenges?

With a central visualization system that provides content management across a multi-room ecosystem. VuWall’s VuTrex technology bridges the gap between AV, IT and IP systems with a modular, hybrid and scalable architecture. The VuTrex technology is at the core of VuWall’s TRx software, which addresses our challenges above. Here’s how:

• Hybrid functionality: TRx supports various source types and display formats to create a solution for seamless content management.
• Scalable design: The modular architecture is designed to seamlessly support future deployments.
• Unified platform: Users can easily manage and control encoders, decoders and other third-party devices with TRx, a single centralized platform.
• Simplified programming: TRx eliminates traditional programming and enables users to easily configure content with drag-and-drop operations.
• High-level interoperability: TRx provides seamless integration that reduces the traditional deployment time and risk.
• Open architecture: Third-party devices, including H.264, NDI|HX and SDVoE, are supported by TRx.

Watch this 90 second video and learn about the power of VuTrex and TRx and how it works

So What Is Unified Visualization?

It is the concept of providing an integrated solution with a single system or platform that can configure, control and manage all the visual content throughout your organization, that can handle any type of video source (web, media file, apps, RSS feeds, live IP cameras, etc…) and route it to any display (computer screen, LED or LCD video wall, projector, TV, etc…) throughout a facility.

Just like Unified Communications (UC) is simplifying work and increasing productivity in the workplace so that employees don’t need to worry about how things work, but they just do, Unified Visualization has the same objective but in work environments where employees or audiences depend on visual information on displays or video walls. Both approaches simplifying work, sheltering users from the complexity of the underlying technology, so that they can simply focus on their job.

Understanding the Workflow

The Solution: Centralized, Interoperable, Easy-to-Use Software

Powered by VuTrex Technology, VuWall’s TRx is a single software platform that can distribute AV-over-IP content and provide advanced video wall management and control. TRx is a centralized management platform for configuring and operating multiple video walls, multiviewers, encoders and decoders. The solution simplifies AV-over-IP projects with easy drag-and-drop options and without the need for any programming. Thanks to VuTrex, TRx provides a modular solution, future-proofing video wall deployments.

Watch this video to discover TRx

Additional Resources

• TRx Webinar: includes complete demo
• BLOG – The Hybrid Approach for the AV over IP Transition
• VIDEO BLOG – Top 10 Tips for AV over IP Network Design (by NETGEAR)
• ARTICLE by AV Technology: Preparing for AV-over-IP in Control Rooms

VuWall Appoints Fadhl Al-Bayaty as Director of Product Management

Original Source: https://vuwall.com/vuwall-appoints-fadhl-al-bayaty-as-director-of-product-management/

Al-Bayaty to Spearhead Consolidated Product Management Efforts for the Entire VuWall Line

MONTREAL — Nov. 3, 2021 — VuWall, a technology leader in video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, today announced the appointment of Fadhl Al-Bayaty as director of product management. This new leadership position will be focused on consolidating the company’s software and hardware product strategy, ensuring cohesive and harmonious growth.

“Fadhl is the ideal choice to break new ground in leading product management efforts for our entire line,” said Paul Vander Plaetse, founder and CEO of VuWall. “He comes to us with a deep knowledge of the industry, years of relevant experience and a hands-on approach that will make an immediate impact. We are thrilled to welcome Fadhl to our growing team.”

Al-Bayaty has a master’s degree in software engineering from Concordia University. He was formerly with Matrox, serving in a progression of roles including applications engineer, product manager and business development manager.

In his leadership role, Al-Bayaty will head product strategy for the entire life cycle of every product in VuWall’s ecosystem, ensuring interoperability between all products as well as many third-party solutions. He will be responsible for maintaining the product vision and strengthening the VuWall product roadmap with innovative solutions that increase productivity and enhance visualization experiences in control rooms and corporate workspaces. Al-Bayaty will also play an important role in product marketing efforts, working in collaboration with the marketing team for product launches and educating the market on new technology and solutions.

“I have always been so impressed with VuWall’s innovative solutions and company culture,” said Al-Bayaty. “I am very excited to be joining such a talented and passionate team in a position that will allow me to take my career to the next level. I am grateful for this incredible opportunity, and I look forward to accelerating the company’s growth even further.”

Al-Bayaty is VuWall’s latest hire of many in the last 12 months, contributing to a 20% growth in staff, both in their Montreal and German office as well as in their U.S.-based sales office.

More information about the company and its products is available at www.VuWall.com.

Key Considerations for Reliable Video in Control Rooms with SDVoE Technology

Original Source: https://vuwall.com/reliable-video-in-control-rooms-with-sdvoe-technology/

Control rooms are vital for organizations to efficiently and effectively monitor multiple information streams and make accurate mission-critical decisions. In most use cases, the control room is a central hub where professionals collect, visualize and share critical information to make optimal, well-informed decisions. Whether the goal is to monitor and analyze data, manage infrastructure, or operate and control systems, reliable video transmission is necessary for success.

Control room design has evolved with a recent convergence of AV and IT technologies. Control rooms are gathering more data and integrating new tools and applications to streamline productivity. It’s not just as simple as implementing new tools or applications to process the data, though. As more tools and applications are integrated, the technology needs for video management systems, controllers and extenders have increased. Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE) technology is revolutionizing the convergence of AV and IT in control rooms.

What is SDVoE?

SDVoE is a standardized technology utilizing Ethernet to transport audio and video signals in professional AV environments. SDVoE technology creates a high-performance, zero-latency, software-based AV-over-IP platform which can enable many applications including, matrix switches, KVM extenders, video wall controllers and image processors, to unite seamlessly.

SDVoE can create a unified ecosystem of technology; meanwhile, reduce the number of hardware devices. SDVoE technology provides a unique value to control rooms.

Here are three key considerations:

1. Improved Security and Reliability

Control rooms, especially in mission-critical environments and security operations centers, require stringent encryption techniques. The encryption techniques are utilized to protect the security of data transmitted over networks. In addition, the systems need to be reliable to reduce any downtime for failures and outages; meanwhile, keep the systems fully functioning during an outage. An SDVoE solution provides unparalleled security and reliability by utilizing stream encryption for a non-intrusive, secure connection. It replaces a PC- or Windows-based wall processor to create a system that reduces cyber attacks and tampering threats.

2. Unparalleled Quality

High-quality video resolution supports the rapid analysis of evolving situations and real-time decision-making. Today, many video display solutions extend from desktop screens to large video walls to support better collaboration; meanwhile, multiple displays at smaller desks help operators visualize more information and improve operation. The importance of visualization for monitoring and decision-making in a control room environment has crucial implications in the choice of a system’s video quality and content distribution capabilities. SDVoE promotes the highest quality video resolutions by eliminating typical compression to reduce video quality to support zero latency. SDVoE’s technology eliminates the need for compromise. It allows the transport of high-quality images.

The SDVoE technology also acts as a high resolution video extender, thus eliminating the need for long video cables, which come with more risk to alter high resolution. Without the need for long cables, SDVoE technology better preserves the integrity of signals between the source and the destination.

2. Streamlined Workflows

In mission-critical scenarios, the operator’s ability to quickly diagnose, react and resolve abnormal situations is critical to the overall workflow. Integrating SDVoE technology with a simple to use management software promotes streamlined workflows to increase collaboration. Operators can monitor content exactly when and where they need it. The content can be shared securely throughout the organization, from the control room to a huddle room. An easy-to-use audio and video control system can reduce stress levels, increase productivity and support faster decision-making. Utilizing a single keyboard and mouse, operators can quickly access all relevant information to make informed decisions and resolve incidents.

Conclusion

Control rooms are fast-paced and high-pressure environments with many technological challenges; meeting the challenges efficiently requires a higher level of technical innovation. Most importantly, Operators shouldn’t have to worry about technology. They should grab any visual content, whether a camera, an application, or a dashboard, and easily display it on any surface.

Today, VuWall is an industry-leading choice for control room professionals. Leveraging VuWall’s TRx with any SDVoE provides reliable management of AV-over-IP content for any source to any type of display or video wall. Powered by VuTrex Technology, TRx is an innovative centralized management platform for configuring and operating multiple video walls, multi-viewers, encoders, and decoders. TRx simplifies the deployment of complex AV-over-IP projects without the need for any programming.

Additional Resources

• More information on TRx: vuwall.com/products/trx/
• More information about SDVoE and their ecosystem: https://sdvoe.org
• Discover the SDVoE Academy! Watch “SDVoE for Control Rooms”
• More information about the VuStream 510 SDVoE Encoder/Decoder