About this episode

James King and Steve Greenblatt explore the future of AV control systems through a new episode format called Maintain/Update/Deprecate.

James King and Steve Greenblatt debut a creative episode format called Maintain/Update/Deprecate. Questions are posed with three answers, which James and Steve each rank from best to worst and explain why. The theme of this episode is the selection and design of AV control systems. What is the future of AV control? a. Traditional dedicated control systems b. Software-based homegrown with off-the-shelf hardware control systems c. Control built into other products What user interface is most effective? a. Touchpanels b. Button panels c. Web pages What control architecture is most effective? a. Local control b. Centralized control c. Cloud control This podcast is supported by Control Concepts, the industry leader in AV software development and API integration. Control Concepts develops the building blocks programmers use to seamlessly integrate products or add functionality to their systems. To learn more, visit controlconcepts.net and ccisupported.net. To join the conversation or have your question answered on a future episode, join the Ask The Programmer group on LinkedIn and post a message, leave a comment, or reach out to us @AV_JamesKing or @stevegreenblatt on LinkedIn…

People in this episode

Hosts: James King, Steve Greenblatt

Topics covered

• AV control systems
• user interface design
• control architecture
• Maintain/Update/Deprecate
• future of AV control

Keywords

• AV control
• user interface
• control architecture
• software-based control
• touchpanels
• button panels
• cloud control

Sponsors

Control Concepts

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