Atlona Velocity Hardware Gateway for AV Control and Management Plus Room Scheduling

Product Description

Hardware Gateway for AV Control and Management plus Room Scheduling

The Atlona Velocity™ System server gateways for AV system control, plus room scheduling and AV asset management. These gateways feature a compact enclosure that easily installs into a rack. With a simple network connection and web browser access, an integrator, tech manager, or technician can quickly begin configuration and deployment of AV control systems, room scheduling touch panels, and AV devices such as matrix switchers. Velocity VGW-HW server gateways support industry-standard, secure data communications, and feature dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for isolating an AV device LAN from a facility or corporate network. An innovative, network-based system architecture allows full redundancy and failover with two gateways in operation, maximizing AV system reliability while preventing downtime in mission-critical applications.

Velocity AV System Control

The VGW-HW-3, VGW-HW-10, and VGW-HW-20 server gateways deliver 3, 10, or 20 rooms of AV control, respectively. Velocity offers comprehensive system control for Atlona as well as third-party AV devices. User AV system control is available from Velocity touch panels, as well as user mobile devices and web browsers without the need to purchase additional licensing. Velocity features a highly intuitive, GUI-based configuration platform, designed for quick, efficient deployment of AV control systems for multiple rooms.

Included with every Velocity server gateway is remote monitoring and management through Velocity Cloud Lite. This online portal allows AV integrators, facility AV/IT system administrators, and tech managers to remotely configure, monitor, and service Atlona Velocity AV control and room scheduling systems, from anywhere and anytime, through a web browser.

Velocity Room Scheduling

In addition to AV system control, VGW-HW gateways can serve up to 6, 20, or 40 rooms for meeting or event scheduling. The Velocity System offers a powerful yet intuitive room scheduling platform that’s easy to install and configure for integrators, and simple to access for meeting participants. It offers a refined, user-friendly touch panel GUI for viewing meeting room availability status, browsing for available rooms, scheduling a meeting or event time, extending meetings as necessary, and initiating ad hoc meetings. Velocity room scheduling is compatible with G Suite™ and Microsoft® Office 365™.

For additional user convenience, the room scheduling system can be configured with a control system to automatically trigger AV functions and macros whenever a meeting begins or ends.

AV Asset Management

All VGW-HW server gateways include the Atlona Management System (AMS), a powerful asset management resource for AV integrators, facility AV/IT system administrators, and tech managers to configure, monitor, and service multiple Atlona products from a web browser. AMS enables centralized organization and management of networked Atlona device installations throughout a facility or residence, greatly reducing integration time while serving as a convenient portal for helpdesk support.

High IP Device Capacity for AV Control, Management, and Room Scheduling

VGW-HW gateways deliver high performance processing for IP-connected AV systems throughout multiple rooms, plus numerous room scheduling touch panels, and management for switchers, matrix switchers, networked AV encoders and decoders, and many other AV devices.

* A room can include AV control, room scheduling, or both. For example, with the AT-VGW-HW-10 there can be a total of 6 rooms with AV control only, 4 rooms for control and scheduling, and 16 rooms with scheduling only.

** Total available IP device capacity for AV system control, room scheduling, and AV asset management.

Features

• Hardware server gateways for AV system control, room scheduling, and AV asset management
• Access from a web browser for setup and management
• Simplify system or device configuration, deployment, and management with the interactions, flow, and visual elements of a web or mobile app GUI
• Create role-based accounts for integrator, client, and AV/IT staff members, each with clearly defined access privileges
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for isolating a dedicated AV LAN from the facility or corporate network
• Supports industry-standard, secure data communications through HTTP/2, HTTPS, SSH, SFTP, and WebSockets with TLS and AES-128 encryption
• USB 3.0 and USB-C ports, plus HDMI® and Mini DisplayPort outputs for future expansion
• Rack-mountable 1U, half rack width enclosure
• Includes installation guide, rack mounting brackets, and external universal power supply
• Award-winning 10 year limited product warranty

Velocity AV system control

• Flexible scalability for integrating one or several AV systems over a network
• Fast, agile, and highly intuitive control system configuration – set up a room AV system in minutes
• Configurations can easily be duplicated across devices, rooms, and sites
• Make control system modifications in just minutes, including AV equipment changes
• Control system redundancy with automatic failover, available via primary and backup VGW-HW processors
• Velocity Command Converters available for IP conversion to RS-232, IR, and relay / sensor; IP to RS-232 available through Atlona AV devices

Velocity room scheduling

• Easy to install and configure for integrators
• Compatible with G Suite™ and Microsoft® Office 365™
• Simple to access for meeting participants though Velocity touch panels
• User-friendly GUI for viewing meeting room availability status, browsing for available rooms, and scheduling a meeting or event time
• Ability to extend meetings and initiate ad hoc meeting sessions
• Can be configured with AV system control to automatically trigger AV functions and macros whenever a meeting begins or ends

Velocity Cloud Lite remote configuration and management

• Online resource for creating and centrally managing Velocity control and room scheduling systems for multiple clients and sites
• Remotely configure a new Velocity control system from scratch, or modify an existing system in minutes
• Continuous system monitoring – quickly assess system and device status
• Automate Velocity system backups to the cloud at defined intervals
• Easy system restoration by accessing any time-stamped backup

Atlona Management System (AMS)

• Centralized, network-based configuration and management of Atlona IP-controllable products and systems
• Manage configuration and firmware updates for AV devices spanning a facility, building, enterprise, or residence
• Automatically discovers Atlona devices on the network and adds them to the system configuration
• Organize Atlona device installations by room, floor, building, and site or campus
• Back up device configurations, duplicate configurations to identical Atlona products on the network, and restore configurations when devices are replaced
• Pre-configure Atlona devices prior to on-site installation and commissioning
• Manage firmware updates including the ability the push to multiple devices at once, and schedule updates at a convenient date and time
• Continuous system monitoring – quickly assess system and device status