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

Product Description

Software Gateway for AV Control and Management plus Room Scheduling

The Atlona AT-VGW-SW is an Atlona Velocity™ System server gateway for AV system control, plus room scheduling and AV asset management. This gateway is a software product, designed for installation on standard IT server infrastructure provisioned by the integrator or end user. 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. The Velocity VGW-SW server gateway supports industry-standard, secure data communications, and can run within a private, dedicated AV device network. An innovative, network-based system architecture allows full redundancy and failover with two VGW-SW instances in operation, maximizing AV system reliability while preventing downtime in mission-critical applications.

Velocity AV System Control

The VGW-SW software server gateway delivers 20 rooms of AV control. 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, the VGW-SW gateway can serve up to 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.

Licensing Available for Additional Rooms

For installations requiring more than 20 rooms of AV control, or more than 40 rooms for meeting / event scheduling, an AT-VRL-SW license is available to provide 1 additional room for AV control, and 2 additional rooms for scheduling. One or more VRL-SW licenses can be purchased online, or within the user portal of the VGW-SW installation or Velocity Cloud Lite account.

AV Asset Management

The VGW-SW software server gateway includes 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

The VGW-SW gateway delivers 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-SW there can be a total of 12 rooms with AV control only, 8 rooms for control and scheduling, and 32 rooms with scheduling only.

** Total available IP device capacity for AV system control, room scheduling, and AV asset management, dependent on server hardware. The Velocity System user portal includes a visual indicator of CPU resource availability, based on the number of simultaneous IP device connections served by the gateway.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The VGW-SW software gateway requires a server with VMWare® ESXi™ installed, a virtual machine provisioned, and the following:

Features

• Software server gateway for AV system control, room scheduling, and AV asset management
• Designed for hosting on standard IT server infrastructure
• 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
• Supports industry-standard, secure data communications through HTTP/2, HTTPS, SSH, SFTP, and WebSockets with TLS and AES-128 encryption

Velocity AV system control

• Serves up to 20 rooms for AV 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-SW software gateway instances
• 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

• Delivers up to 40 rooms for meeting / event 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
• Optional AT-VRL-SW license available – 1 additional room for AV control and 2 additional rooms for scheduling

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