A Campus Safety Magazine survey suggests healthcare, K-12, and higher education markets know they need better communication systems. They need a system that can distribute information in multiple ways, using different devices, and has the ability to reach people onsite and remote.
Early in the pandemic, articles were published about companies discovering efficiencies and effectiveness in their work from home strategies. Some articles suggested work from home would be largely adopted even after the pandemic was over. But only a few months later, the tone of those articles seemed to change as we started to see the impact of less in-person collaboration.
There is a myth in the security industry that many integrators believe to be true. It’s that you need very specific proprietary lines, specific expertise, and particular skills to install and maintain critical communication systems in education and healthcare customers. Nothing could be further from the truth…
A checklist of important features to look for in a mass communications system for casinos.
Audiovisual, security, and tech rich systems are unique in their complexity and the rate at which the technology evolves. While expertly trained, integrators can sometimes be challenged by project timelines, product availability, interconnecting brands, and scope creep. More than ever, integrators should consider manufacturer services as a seamless part of their project support.
While adaptive paging, emergency notifications, and even background music is good, adaptive sound masking may create more problems than it solves. We've compiled 6 reasons why adaptive sound masking is NOT effective in protecting speech privacy and reducing distractions.
Travis Pranschke, Vice President of Global Quality and Manufacturing, offers some details about AtlasIED manufacturing advantages and what they mean to customers.
For restaurants where service, ambiance, and the experience are a big part of why customers choose them, taking away all customer contact may be detrimental to their business. Technology can help.
Discussion about the relationship between mass communication and classroom technologies in higher education including how mass communications systems that support classroom instruction can be included in larger security budgets, on-premise vs. off-premise communication capabilities, and how mass communication systems can support successful student outcomes on college and university campuses.
Sending audio over ethernet networks has changed significantly since introduced in the mid 90s. as the complexity and size of a system increases, extra care must be taken to ensure that the network can reliably and quickly get the digital audio to where it needs to go.
AtlasIED's Atmosphere digital audio platform first hit the market in July of 2020 and only 8 months later, additional features and enhanced capabilities are being added. Gina Sansivero, VP of Marketing & Corporate Communications, Michael Peveler, VP of Sales, and Tom Lureman, Director of Engineering and Product Management, get together to explain the Atmosphere 2.0 firmware update and answer questions.
When discussing technologies that improve the customer experience, the conversation often goes to the devices/services that are directly used by customers/guests. Technologies that work behind the scenes are often overlooked.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every sector of the hospitality industry. Restaurants, in particular, have felt the sting, as business came to a screeching halt temporarily while families went into hard lockdown. It didn’t take long, however, before restaurant owners started implementing new take-out strategies to stay afloat. Nimble and resilient, restaurant owners, managers, and staff have adapted admirably to COVID mandates. But the road to recovery isn’t over. As businesses continue to move forward, digital audio systems can play a vital in their success.
Almost every K12 school district had or still has an analog paging system that they use for daily communications. While these systems typically did the job they were intended to do, school districts who haven’t switched to network audio may be missing out on key features they didn't even know existed.
Schools will implement protective measures such as masks, disinfectant, and social distancing to help stop the spread of the coronavirus as K-12 students and staff return for the 2020—21 academic year. But how can communications technologies assist in the effort to provide safe and healthy schools?
Various Resources to Help AV Businesses Endure the Impact of COVID-19
Having a VoIP phone system is a good start, but if this is the sole method of communication during emergency situations, you’re going to come up short.
Having an emergency notification system is important. But ensuring your emergency notification system can do its job effectively by ensuring the notifications are received is crucial.
Doug Hall, Director of Technology for Mizzen Marketing, discusses how software is revolutionizing how emergency messaging is received.
Understanding the basics of acoustics in an office environtment can help tremendously in creating an environment that stimulates collaboration among co-workers while still providing enough privacy for confidential conversations.
IT Administrators deserve to know what impact any device may have on the performance and security of their network. It's their job. Answering this question in some cases may be difficult. But for the IPX family of IP endpoints, it's pretty simple.
Why would a K12 or higher education institution use background music? After all,
The number one way to differentiate your business is to be the expert. The majority of people will pay more for something if there is additional value attached to it, like professional expert installation or follow-up technical service. The more you know and can convey to your customers, the more important your expertise becomes.
Speech privacy and sound masking are a rapidly growing category in the commerical AV market. If you are researching sound masking you may have seen the terms direct field and indirect field masking systems. How do you know which is right for your facilty? The good news is AtlasIED can not only explain the difference but also has solutions for both applications.
Audio/video media drives the business world today. Whether you are running a restaurant or a retail store, successful businesses are leveraging business music as a medium to create an experience that attracts and retains customers while also improving employee satisfaction.
Horn speakers and compression drivers have been around forever. They are incredibly reliable, cost-effective, and can cover wide areas for voice, tone and public address applications. Horn speakers and compression drivers benefit when using filtering that protect the compression driver from lower frequencies while making them highly efficient.
Speaker placement is one of the fastest ways to take a sound system from sounding great to you have to be kidding. Selecting the right speaker is only the first part of the job, getting it positioned to maximize its efficacy is just as important. Where should you start? Let AtlasIED help out.
One of the easiest and most cost-effective methods to address the quiet hospital is speech privacy technology. Speech privacy technology electronically introduces a steady, constant sound that masks unwanted noise created by conversations, equipment, and the normal operation of a hospital.
Unified Communications (UC) is a popular form of collaborative communications for all business types that leverages todays converged networks. UC can include many forms of communication including instant messaging (chat), voice (IP telephony), mobile convergence, visual signaling, and more, that enables the same notification to be pushed across multiple devices thereby breaking the distance barriers that are characteristic of traditional analog systems.
The best solution for today's collaborative office environments to reduce distractions is a quality Speech Privacy Solution, often also referred to as a sound masking system or a white noise system. AtlasIED speech privacy technologies pleasantly raise the ambient sound level in the environment by emitting acoustically optimized white or pink masking noise.
Safety Listings are specific standards that products are required to meet for given applications and uses. These include everything in a building from the electrical system to the plumbing as well as the loudspeakers, wiring, electronics, and racks used to support the paging, BGM, or emergency communication systems.
Few systems are as misunderstood as "70V" systems. The most important trait of these systems is the use of transformers that are used to "step down" the signal voltage before applying it to the loudspeaker. This is necessary because the signal voltage is "stepped up" at the amplifier. Myths regarding these systems abound. Some are rooted in fact, others, not so much. These are some common misconceptions about 70V loudspeaker systems.
Before people were working from home, noise distractions and lack of speech privacy negatively impacted productivity in all office environments. That has not changed. But people have become used to the sounds and privacy afforded to them while working from home, in their own space, where they are comfortable and protected. Some are looking forward to returning to the office, others are undecided, and a third group never wants to return.
