Commercial Integrator August 2022 - 37

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Datapath on its Aetria
Solution, Fast-Evolving
Control Environments
Commercial Integrator chats with Datapath's
Mark Bohs about the power and benefits
of bringing its technology to user stations.
CI: Control rooms today
are becoming ever more
complex. With more content,
sources and data than ever
before, is there a need for
more technology to enhance
operator effectiveness?
Mark Bohs: Absolutely. And
Datapath has a solution for that.
We have a new product that we
released last year called Aetria.
If you're familiar with Datapath,
we have always been involved
in the command-and-control
room at the videowall. Basically,
taking in multiple sources and
displaying them on a videowall
of any size, type or shape. What
we've done now is take that
same idea and push it farther
out to the user station.
User stations today have more
than one screen. It's not unusual
to see three or four screens on
an operator's desk. We want to
actually bring that same simplicity
of pulling and sources and
layouts, and put that onto the
user, as well - on the operator's
workstation. Basically, giving
them a personal videowall. And
that's what Aetria is doing.
But also, we're seeing
technology like AV-over-IP becoming
more prevalent. We've
come out with another product,
as well, called Aligo, which is
commercialintegrator.com
our AV-over-IP solution. It fits in
very well to the Aetria solution.
CI: Give us an overview of
your Aetria solution and how
it simplifies control rooms
- from design concept, to
install, to operation?
Bohs: Aetria is actually Datapath's
integrated solution for
design, management and operation
of command-and-control
rooms. I like to take that more
as not just rooms but rooms as
in environments. There's more
than just one control room.
With the content we have
out there and the prevalence
of AV-over-IP, there are a lot
more sources, more content
and more applications that the
operators need to use.
What Aetria does is simplify
everything. With Aetria's
Command Center, we're giving
the user a single integrated
interface that is comprehensive
and unified for the control of
content sources. Now, this is
all the content and sources.
Content could be IP streams,
video streams, web pages,
local content and more. We're
giving the user the capability to
move that from the videowall to
their workstation - have their
own personal videowall at their
workstation, with their own
templates and layouts.
And if the information is required
somewhere else - say, a
conference room or a manager's
office - they can put that content
there. And we do this with
the highest security levels, with
user-rights interfaces and encryption.
Also, Aetria gives you
the ability to manage everything
- from the videowall process,
the videowall, all the way down
to the user workstations.
With the AV-over-IP solution,
we're also able to give KVMover-IP.
So, we can now take
sources that would have been
local to the user and put them
into a data center, which is much
quieter. Now, we're able to manipulate
those local sources as if
they were right on the person's
desk. We want the operator to
have a seamless work environment,
so they can concentrate
on the job they have at hand.
And that's what Aetria is doing:
It's simplifying everything. Giving
everything to the user, and
then being able to access all the
content and availability that they
need to do their job.
CI: What do you have planned
for the rest of 2022 and after?
Bohs: So, we had a very
Mark Bohs, director
of sales for the
Americas, Datapath.
successful ISE and InfoComm,
showing and demonstrating
Aetria. In Philadelphia, where
our U.S. headquarters is
located, we have built a demo
center for Aetria. We think
we can handle a lot of the
northeast from there. But, also
in the northeast, we're adding a
demo center in Providence, R.I.
Starting after Labor Day, we
will be doing a road show in five
U.S. cities. And the reason we're
doing a road show is because,
again, at InfoComm, people
were able to see the user interface.
You know, Zoom meetings
and demos really don't do it
justice. You need to sit down
and see how it works, move
content around and actually see
how easy the user interface is.
With those two shows, we
found we get a lot more bang
for our buck physically showing
it to people. So, we're going to
five cities: Starting with Tampa,
Fla.; then Atlanta; then Dallas;
then San Jose, Calif.; then Chicago.
And, again, the northeast
U.S. is going to be handled out
of our demo center in Philadelphia,
as well as the one we're
opening in Providence, R.I.
We can't wait to bring Aetria
to more people! For more info,
go Datapathltd.com.
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