Inside InfoComm's Green AV Rating System

Behind the scenes of InfoComm’s new green AV rating system. What will it mean for you?

Having struck out with the U.S. Green Building Council, the AV industry now aims to create its own LEED-type sustainability certification process, due out in January 2011. Here's what it entails.

 

News From Around the AV Industry

Associations

  • InfoComm: The Mother of All Reunions

    New products are great, but many attend InfoComm to catch up with each other. And when they're done there, PRO AV has a new online place they can hang out.

     

  • USAV Adds Two Integrators to Network

    USAV Group, an association of leading professional AV integrators, has added two new integrators to its network: AVS Installations, headquartered in Edison, N.J., and Axcess Video Corp., headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

     

  • AVnu Alliance Welcomes Six New Members

    AVnu Alliance, an industry forum dedicated to promoting the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 AVB (Audio, Video, and Bridging) standards and the related IEEE 1722 and 1733 for professional AV, automotive, and consumer applications, recently hosted its second PlugFest and added six new members.

     

  • NSCA to Offer MNEC Training at InfoComm

    Due to the recent changes in the National Fire and Alarm Signaling Code (NFPA 72) that may present new opportunities for commercial electronics systems integrators, NSCA plans to host two training courses and one panel discussion at InfoComm 2010 for show attendees interested in entering and...

     

  • NSCA Launches Mass Notification Site

    Changes to NFPA 72, now the National Fire Alarm & Signaling Code, including new chapter on emergency communications systems, will likely have a major effect on the commercial electronic systems industry.

     
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Industry News

  • Sierra Video Hires New Sales Manager

    Sierra Video, a provider of high-quality video and audio equipment for the broadcast, government, and professional video marketplaces, today announced the hire of Steven Rich as its regional manager of sales and business development.

     

  • Crestron Ships 24-Port Switch with PoE

    Crestron this week announced the release of the CEN-SWPOE-24, a 24-port managed 10/100 Ethernet switch with power over Ethernet (PoE) and dual gigabit uplink ports.

     

  • Middle Atlantic Intros VisionFrame System

    Middle Atlantic Products has come out with what it calls the VisionFrame Video Monitor Wall System for providing heavy-duty structural support for monitors.

     

  • Prospects for Digital Signage Stay Positive

    Digital Signage Expo (DSE) this week announced the results of its Quarterly Business Barometer Survey for Q2 2010.

     

  • Digital Rapids Upgrades Transcode, Broadcast Managers

    Digital Rapids announced new versions of its Transcode Manager automated, distributed transcoding software and its Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management software.

     
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Marketwatch

  • Flat-Panel TV Shipments Heat Up Again

    After anemic growth in 2009, LCD TVs are apparently hot again, according to research firm DisplaySearch, which is exactly what purveyors of 3D and LED-lit flat-panels were aiming for.

     

  • Integrators Plan More Service Offerings

    The National Systems Contractors Association's Q1 Market Intelligence Briefing, "Recurring Revenue: Selling Service", breaks down services into six main categories, including training and maintenance.

     

  • 3D Out in Public

    The world's talking about 3D entertainment and the potential boon to the movie industry and TV makers, but DisplaySearch has already started to define the market for something else–3D public displays.

     

  • AV on a Global Scale

    Randy Lemke, the executive director of InfoComm, tells a story of how he was in Hong Kong several years ago and was asked by a journalist about the size of the AV market.

     

  • Economic Snapshot: Testing the Market's Bottom

    Last month, InfoComm International released its latest Economic Snapshot, a regular report on how the pro AV industry feels about its financial health. The October 2009 results closely resemble those from July 2009, when AV pros acknowledged that business had fallen off.

     
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Mergers and Acquisitions

  • USAV Adds Two Integrators to Network

    USAV Group, an association of leading professional AV integrators, has added two new integrators to its network: AVS Installations, headquartered in Edison, N.J., and Axcess Video Corp., headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

     

  • SurgeX and Chief Team Up

    SurgeX announced this week that the company has entered a strategic partnership with Chief Manufacturing. As a result of the partnership, authorized Chief and SurgeX dealers will be able to purchase a bundled solution combining Chief's line of Raxxess racks protected with SurgeX technology.

     

  • Front Porch Digital and Grass Valley Team Up

    Front Porch Digital entered into an agreement that allows its DIVArchive content storage management solutions to be sold in the Americas through Grass Valley.

     

  • Electrosonic Spends Some Extron Cash

    Having sold off its products division to Extron Electronics, AV integrators Electrosonic this week announced it had acquired the Multimedia Group Ltd., owners of DRV Integration Ltd., one of Europe's foremost designers and integrators of corporate, medical, and educational AV technology, and DRV...

     

  • Mark Terry Joins Linear as New Group President

    Linear recently announced the creation of a new audio, video, and control group combining Nile Audio, Xantech, and Elan Home Systems (including the brands Aton, Sunfire, and HomeLogic) into a single business unit based in Carlsbad, Calif. It welcomed former Harman Pro Group president Mark Terry as...

     
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People and Places

  • Sierra Video Hires New Sales Manager

    Sierra Video, a provider of high-quality video and audio equipment for the broadcast, government, and professional video marketplaces, today announced the hire of Steven Rich as its regional manager of sales and business development.

     

  • AVI-SPL's Scanlon to Retire

    National integrator AVI-SPL announced the retirement of AV industry pioneer and AVI-SPL president Stephenie Scanlon.

     

  • Kramer Promotes VP of National Accounts

    Kramer Electronics said it has promoted Michael Lewis to vice president of national accounts.

     

  • McCann Systems Opens Regional Office

    McCann Systems, a New Jersey-based AV design-build integrator, this month opened its first regional office in St. Louis.

     

  • NEC Names New Head of Vukunet

    NEC Display Solutions of America announced the appointment of Graeme Spicer to head Vukunet, NEC's universal advertising platform that connects digital out-of-home (DOOH) networks with ad revenue.

     
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