Automation and Cloud Integration Redefine AV Workflows
InfoComm is a professional audiovisual trade show where manufacturers, integrators and end users present and evaluate emerging AV technologies that shape how sound, video and interactive experiences are designed, installed and maintained across commercial spaces. This year’s event highlighted a clear move toward projection mapping automation and cloud audio management as core AV integration solutions. Instead of treating loudspeakers, projectors and control as isolated products, exhibitors focused on connected platforms that monitor equipment health, automate display calibration technology and reduce onsite tuning time. For integrators who manage large, multi-room deployments, the story was less about single devices and more about workflows: remote access, data-driven maintenance and software that can self-correct alignment, color and geometry. From networked installation loudspeakers to camera-based projection mapping on complex 3D structures, InfoComm showed how automation and cloud platforms are becoming standard requirements rather than optional add-ons.
Installation Loudspeakers in a Unified Platform: dBTechnologies IS Series
On the audio side, dBTechnologies focused on permanent installations with its IS Series passive loudspeakers. The range is designed as part of a cohesive ecosystem that aligns installation loudspeakers, amplification and control under a single platform, helping integrators cut system design complexity and reduce onsite tuning. The IA Series amplifiers add DSP-enabled power and networked control through Aurora Net, available in RDNet or Dante versions, so multi-zone and multi-room systems can be adjusted centrally. Listening sessions every even hour at InfoComm highlighted controlled directivity, spatial coherence and consistent coverage, pointing to a clear target market of performance-driven venues. According to Colin Studybaker, president of dBTechnologies USA, the brand has built its reputation as a “technology-driven” manufacturer by reinvesting in R&D across amplification, DSP and control alongside its loudspeaker platforms.
Aurora Cloud PaaS and the Rise of Cloud Audio Management
Extending beyond local control, dBTechnologies introduced Aurora Cloud, a cloud-based PaaS that expands its Aurora Net environment into the cloud. The platform addresses growing demand for connected, data-driven workflows in professional audio, giving system integrators and rental firms remote access for monitoring, device management and data analysis. Aurora Cloud PaaS supports structured cloud audio management by logging performance data, enabling report generation and scheduling, and centralizing documentation, verification and maintenance records. A real-time alert function flags disconnections or operational anomalies and pushes immediate notifications, so teams can react faster and often resolve issues before they affect audiences. By joining installation loudspeakers, amplifiers and control software with a cloud layer, dBTechnologies signaled how audio systems are shifting from one-off projects to long-lived, managed services supported by continuous monitoring and analytics.
Scalable Display Technologies Pushes Projection Mapping Automation
On the video side, Scalable Display Technologies placed projection mapping automation at center stage with a large-scale immersive Mount Rushmore installation powered by its Atlas software. Designed for automatic 3D projection-mapping applications, Atlas manages alignment, color, intensity and geometry across multiple projectors, turning a complex 3D surface into a single seamless image. During live demonstrations, staff deliberately disrupted projector alignment and then re-ran calibration to show Atlas restoring the image with minimal technical intervention. This underlined how display calibration technology is evolving from painstaking manual setup to repeatable, camera-guided processes. Atlas calculates projector positions in 3D and generates individual warp maps, enabling accurate edge blending and color matching even on irregular objects. The result is a workflow suited to large immersive environments, themed attractions and architectural displays where keeping images stable over time is as important as the initial impact.
Toward Self-Correcting, Data-Driven AV Integration Solutions
Taken together, the exhibits pointed toward a new baseline for AV integration solutions: systems that are self-aware, self-correcting and managed through connected platforms. In audio, Aurora Cloud PaaS showed how cloud audio management can give integrators continuous visibility into installation loudspeakers and amplifiers, complete with alerts and structured reporting. In video, Scalable’s Atlas platform demonstrated that automated alignment, color correction and geometry calibration are now practical for complex 3D projection mapping at scale. For consultants and integrators, these trends promise shorter commissioning cycles, fewer truck rolls and more predictable long-term performance. Instead of periodic manual tuning visits, systems can report their own status and, in the case of projection mapping automation, recalibrate themselves on demand. InfoComm made it clear that future-ready AV projects will be judged as much on automation and serviceability as on sound quality and image brightness.
