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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.
PodcastJames 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.
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.
VideoAVIXA 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.
VideoAVIXA 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.
VideoWalkthrough of using Zabbix triggers and remediation actions to fix AV system issues without human intervention. The practical mechanics behind automated recovery.
VideoAVIXA TV webinar on bringing enterprise-grade monitoring practices to AV systems at institutional scale.
PodcastDan Ferrisi (Commercial Integrator) hosts Fred Loucks on outcome assurance: what it means to deliver AV systems whose results can be verified, not just installed.
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.
PodcastPart 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.
VideoAVIXA TV webinar on building a unified visibility layer across meeting room AV: the architectural journey from siloed vendor tools to one operational view.
PodcastPatrick Murray hosts Fred Loucks on visibility of AV systems at scale, program management, automated remediation, and the operational reality of monitoring at institutional volume.