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Articles, videos, and guides on AV observability, health modeling, and institutional governance. Self-serve to deepen what training and the Accelerator teach in person.

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Podcast

Ask The Programmer Episode 263: Fred Loucks on the AV Journey and the Case for Monitoring

James King and Steve Greenblatt host Fred Loucks on his path through theater and show control into AV, why effective monitoring matters at institutional scale, and what's coming at InfoComm 2026.

  • Ask The Programmer
  • monitoring
  • operations
  • InfoComm
26 Apr 2026
Article

Why monitoring AV sucks

Monitoring AV sucks for a lot of reasons, but they all collapse into one problem: AV systems are not built to be observed. You can't reliably tell what's up, what's down, and what's about to fail. In an environment where hundreds or thousands of rooms need to just work, that's untenable.

  • observability
  • monitoring
  • framework
23 Apr 2026
Video

Supporting Classrooms with AV over IP

AVIXA TV session on designing AV over IP into hybrid classrooms and using remote monitoring to scale support across multi-campus institutions without growing the technology team.

  • AVIXA TV
  • classrooms
  • av-over-ip
  • monitoring
25 Mar 2026
Video

Optimizing Meeting Room Monitoring

AVIXA TV session on how to design AV monitoring that holds up at meeting-room scale: what to watch, what to filter, and how to keep alerts actionable.

  • AVIXA TV
  • monitoring
  • meeting-rooms
  • alerting
02 Apr 2025
Video

Unleash Automation: Fix AV System Issues Automatically with Zabbix

Walkthrough of using Zabbix triggers and remediation actions to fix AV system issues without human intervention. The practical mechanics behind automated recovery.

  • zabbix
  • automation
  • remediation
19 Aug 2024
Video

Enterprise IT: Monitoring AV

AVIXA TV webinar on bringing enterprise-grade monitoring practices to AV systems at institutional scale.

  • AVIXA TV
  • monitoring
  • enterprise
  • meeting-rooms
24 July 2024
Podcast

AV+: Outcome Assurance for Technology Integration

Dan Ferrisi (Commercial Integrator) hosts Fred Loucks on outcome assurance: what it means to deliver AV systems whose results can be verified, not just installed.

  • AV+
  • outcome-assurance
  • integration
  • operations
26 Oct 2023
Podcast

A State of Control #103: Embedded Developer

AVNation's A State of Control on the shift from 'AV programmer' to 'embedded developer', and how software development practices are reshaping how AV control work gets done.

  • A State of Control
  • development
  • embedded
  • control
24 Mar 2023
Podcast

Integrating Technology #50: Microservices & The End of AV Control

Part 2 of the conversation with Patrick Murray. How management replaces control as AV's operational paradigm, and what hardware vendors moving to subscription models means for integrators.

  • Integrating Technology
  • microservices
  • architecture
  • operations
13 Feb 2023
Video

Enterprise IT: Single Pane of Glass for Meeting Rooms

AVIXA TV webinar on building a unified visibility layer across meeting room AV: the architectural journey from siloed vendor tools to one operational view.

  • AVIXA TV
  • single-pane-of-glass
  • monitoring
  • meeting-rooms
25 Jan 2023
Podcast

Integrating Technology #49: AV Monitoring & Programming Your Way Through Problems

Patrick Murray hosts Fred Loucks on visibility of AV systems at scale, program management, automated remediation, and the operational reality of monitoring at institutional volume.

  • Integrating Technology
  • monitoring
  • programming
  • operations
27 June 2022