{"id":515,"date":"2019-03-25T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-235684-782445.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:34:03","slug":"how-cutting-edge-technologies-can-be-applied-to-commercial-av","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.konnectus.com.au\/how-cutting-edge-technologies-can-be-applied-to-commercial-av\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cutting edge technologies can be applied to commercial AV"},"content":{"rendered":"
David –<\/strong> So, Adrian today we\u2019re going to be talking about two technologies that are out there in the market reasonably cutting edge, I guess we could say. Facial Recognition and also Voice Control. And we just want to explore how those technologies can be applied or potentially applied in the future to commercial AV applications.<\/a><\/p>\n Let\u2019s talk about Voice Control. Obviously, a lot of us would have heard about Amazon Alexa, Google Home. They are basically, in our face all the time, in our ears all the time, the commercials just bombarding us. It\u2019s clearly a strong emerging trend. Yeah. I can\u2019t ignore, I guess, and neither can you. We have to accept it. It\u2019s in our lives. And I think you\u2019ve already got some of these technology in your own home, don\u2019t you? Can you tell us about that?<\/p>\n Adrian –<\/strong> That\u2019s correct. My wife got me Alexa for my birthday, and it was something that I was pestering her for pretty regularly.<\/p>\n Alexa has been great. When you go to a fridge and say \u201cOh my gosh, I forgot milk. Alexa add milk to my shopping list.\u201d Recently, we also have a newborn baby and to track her feeding schedule, every time she feeds, my wife just says \u201cAlexa, I\u2019m feeding now\u201d. And what that does is, every time we open the Alexa app, it keeps a track of all the things that we\u2019ve said. It\u2019s like our personal little assistant. And I can turn on my lights, \u201cAlexa, turn on the lights downstairs\u201d, or \u201cAlexa, play jazz downstairs\u201d and it\u2019s starting to learn our different tendencies of the way we talk and all that other stuff. It\u2019s been fantastic.<\/p>\n David –<\/strong> I see. So, it\u2019s learning about you specifically? Correct. The occupants of that home? Yeah. And it\u2019s, sort of, adapting and I guess the margin for error gets smaller, and smaller, and smaller as it gets to know you. Is that how it works?<\/p>\n Adrian –<\/strong> Yeah, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n David –<\/strong> Okay, perfect! And we\u2019ve seen big AV companies<\/a> like Crestron, and AMX now integrating with those products from Google and Amazon as well. So, in those residential applications, we might have Crestron control system, or AMX control system, controlling all the lights, and the blinds, and the music, and the other audio-visual elements<\/a>. You can now use it with voice commands, can\u2019t you?<\/p>\n Adrian –<\/strong> Correct. I\u2019m not sure in a commercial environment though if it\u2019s as applicable. That\u2019s because when I say things like \u201cAlexa, add this to my shopping list\u201d and it doesn\u2019t understand what I\u2019m saying, it\u2019s only my wife who\u2019s laughing at my pronunciation. However, when I\u2019m in front of managers or more senior level staff, it might be a bit unnerving when you\u2019re doing a presentation and you can\u2019t get the system going because it doesn\u2019t understand what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n David –<\/strong> Right. I guess if we\u2019re applying this technology to commercial environments now, there are a few things we need to be aware of that maybe aren\u2019t quite there yet. Obviously public space is not a controlled environment. So, the technology is dealing with lots of different people all the time.\u00a0 And so, it\u2019s hard to adapt, isn\u2019t it? Hard to reduce that margin fairly like what we were talking about. People say things in different ways, don\u2019t they? People might say \u201cTurn the TV on\u201d to try to get it working, and then others will say \u201cLet\u2019s just jump to put my presentation on\u201d and they\u2019re trying to do the same thing maybe but the commands are different, so the system could be confused.<\/p>\n Adrian –<\/strong> Yeah. So, my wife, her father is Filipino and whenever he comes to our house, he always says \u201cOpen the lights\u201d. Whereas most people say turn the lights on and off, he says open and close the lights and Alexa never understands what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n David –<\/strong> Oh well, that\u2019s a classic example of what could go wrong. But I think the technology is fantastic, would you agree? Clearly, the future is for this technology to be in commercial environments such as a workplace or any other areas. But, maybe, not quite yet ready. So, just some things to be aware of there.<\/p>\n Adrian –<\/strong> Yeah. Imagine in the future we just have to say, \u201cCall David Allara\u201d and it calls you straight away. It turns on the screen. It turns on the video conferencing codec. Gets the camera zoomed in on you and it saves you all those buttons but like you said, it\u2019s not quite there yet. So, we can look forward to that.<\/p>\n