Bluesound Professional has partnered with OpenAV Cloud in a new initiative to host public APIs in the cloud to enable seamless cross-product integration.

Founding members BrightSign, Legrand AV, Panasonic, Shure, Sony, Xyte and others have come together to address proprietary control systems and siloed cloud environments.

OpenAV Cloud will create a unified, interoperable, customer-first AV ecosystem that benefits manufacturers, integrators and end users. Developers can produce apps linking different manufacturers’ APIs together to easily control multi-manufacturer systems.

This will also help leverage the latest advances in AI integration by supporting protocols that bring the significance of large language models (LLM) into AV ecosystems.

“As our BluOS operating system, used in Bluesound Professional products, forms a link from control input to music services, the possibilities available to us using an MCP server are very exciting indeed,” Bluesound Professional vice president and general manager Graeme Harrison says.