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Vistacom Tech Expo 2023: Streamlining AV Connectivity with Sound Control Technologies

Modern AV professionals are simplifying complex connectivity challenges through integrated control solutions designed for today's evolving installations

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Vistacom Tech Expo 2023, on its 15th edition, unfolds a platform for tech enthusiasts to explore the cutting-edge advancements in the Audio-Visual (AV) industry. The expo's engaging booth interviews provide a lens into the modern solutions addressing the evolving challenges in AV technology.

In an insightful Sound Control Technologies booth interview, Chris Odette, with the Sound Control Technologies Business Development team, spotlights the company's offerings to simplify AV connectivity. With a legacy since 1987, Sound Control Technologies is a reliable partner for powering, controlling, and channeling video from pan-tilt-zoom cameras using a single-category cable for distances up to a hundred meters. Odette highlights the industry challenge of transporting varying signal types, including proprietary ones, over significant distances without the hassle of multiple cables, which Sound Control Technologies efficiently address with their solutions.

Sound Control Technologies is a reliable partner for powering, controlling, and channeling video from pan-tilt-zoom cameras using a single-category cable for distances up to a hundred meters.

At the expo, Sound Control Technologies showcased their camera extension solutions, USB switching solutions, and the capability to transport backplane signals of Cisco or Poly Kodak up to a hundred meters on a single cable, embodying a holistic approach to AV connectivity.

This visit with Chris Odette underscores the essence of simplifying AV connectivity, resonating well with the innovative spirit of Vistacom Tech Expo 2023.

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Hi. Chris Odette Sound Control Technologies. Sound Control Technologies is the manufacturer based out of Norwalk, Connecticut. We've been in business since nineteen eighty seven. Primarily what we do is we support anybody's pan tilt zoom camera to on the market, and we are providing the power for that camera. The control for that camera and the video for that camera on a single category cable up to a hundred meters. So some of the challenges in the industry are How do we get the signaling from cameras, from codecs as it relates to video conferencing? A significant distance. Those signals that are being transported from these devices, sometimes they're proprietary, sometimes they're not, but even standardized signals like HDMI, the ability to move microphone data. All of those signals might be proprietary to the device that we're connected to. So we're picking up that proprietary nature, encoding it, putting on a category cable we get it down that category up to a hundred meters, and we reconnect to the device on the other end, solving that cable problem, for integrators like Vistacom, that need to transport the signal without running multiple cables and introducing failures over time. So today, we're showing camera extension solutions. We're showing, USB Switching solutions, which is a really big deal when we're talking about bringing your own device environments that are being deployed, whether it's teams or zooms or and Webex. We're also showing our ability to take the backplane of a Cisco or Poly Kodak and transport that up to a hundred meters on a single category cable for microphone, ethernet, and power for a touch panel. HDMI and USB BYOD. My role at Sound Control Technologies is business development, which is the title at more or less everyone at Sound Control Technologies holds because no matter what your role is at Sound Control, that's what you're doing.

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