Amber Technology projects a gold star exhibit
Amber Technology had a large, central stand at Integrate and it was absolutely packed with cool tech.
Amber’s general manager, Richard Neale, was happy to be back: “We’re here to connect and reconnect with our customers. While we do many one-on-one meetings with customers during the year, we can’t cover as much ground as we do here.”
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He remarked: “The stand’s overriding theme demonstrates the completeness of the solution that we’re able to offer to our customers: everything from infrastructure products (like cables and Ethernet switches) through to the complete signal chain for audio and video products (input processors, output devices for audio-visual and where those interact and intersect).”
A prominent, head-turning item was an immersed dinosaur skull display which was there to illustrate that WyreStorm had created a partnership with Sealoc to help make its products: “incredibly water resistant and enable installers to use indoor devices, outdoors – and install them on digital signage and things like that.”
However, the big highlight was the Digital Projection Satellite with Modular Laser System at the top of a tower above the stand. Rather than integrating all of the components (including the light-source), in one big box like most projectors, Richard said: “This one uses a light engine that lives in a rack that we’ve got at the bottom of the tower. The projection head, where the light is modulated (and comes out through the lens), is at the top of the tower.”
He said: “We’ve had to create a new term here – integrated projector – which is what that one isn’t. Rather than something like a dis-integrated projector, we called it a satellite projector where the light source could be up to 100 metres away.”
It uses a fibre-optic bundle – about 3cm in diameter – which is large enough to carry (up to) 70,000 lumens into the projection head without degradation. Core benefits include being able to house the noisy fans, that cool the light source, in another room plus the practicalities surrounding elevating a 40KG projection head, versus an equivalent one that might weight up to 150KG(!), to the top of a tower.
Richard continued, “Then, at the bottom of the tower, you have a rack where you put the light sources. If you need 50,000 Lumens you put five, 10,000 lumen light sources in it. If a production company needs five light sources, you send out six in case one fails. And then, if one of them fails – and the light source is where failure most commonly occurs in projectors – you just switch the optical cable at the back.”
Another highlight was the Zonemix platform. Amber developed and launched the Australian-manufactured zoning mixer which aims to replace Digipage. It can be controlled by wall controllers, programmable paging stations plus USB, Ethernet and RS-232. It has six, shared audio inputs which can be independently mixed and routed to any of the output zones. Wall panel controllers can be added to zones for additional audio inputs. It includes independent mixing and audio routing, a mini-DSP, a (customisable) tone generator a built-in scheduler and an optional SDcard reader (amongst many other features). Everything can be set-up via software.
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