Traditional AV systems for training & education were contained within a room, occasionally with the ability to record or draw resources from a central location. Advancements in technology now allow functionality that was only a dream twenty years ago. When AVC’s CEO, Carole Peters, started in the AV industry, her task was to create a distance learning center for multiple fire departments in Orange County, California. The internet didn’t exist, and a model that required fire department personnel leave their stations was expensive and reduced the number of firefighters available to respond to urgent needs. Along with her Fire Chief, she envisioned and implemented a distance learning system which leveraged cable TV networks to broadcast training directly to the fire stations, keeping the critical personnel available for calls while still providing the required ongoing training. Today we would solve these problems in a variety of ways, leveraging the internet, streaming, videoconferencing, digital recording and many more options.

This experience gives AVC a unique perspective on our client’s situations, and enables us to provide vision and perception to meet their challenges. Budgets, ease of use, remote monitoring, reliability, and security, in addition to normal issues of image quality and intelligibility must all be factored in to designs for the training and education segment.