Vocia and Tesira Are Closer Than Ever

A preoccupation for us since Tesira was released has been how to make it integrate better with Vocia. Some of our customers have crafted ways of doing it in their installs, but we wanted to create something more direct for you. With the Vocia 1.6 firmware update, Vocia amplifiers can now receive unicast CobraNet bundles from Tesira or Audia servers. That means your customers’ BGM audio channels can be sent from Tesira or Audia directly into existing Vocia amplifiers via CobraNet channels, and out through the existing speaker system. Complex, but cool. Before Vocia 1.6, the BGM signals took over entire CobraNet bundles in the Vocia world, which left fewer…

What a Vocia Nurse Call Integration System Looks Like

In this month’s sample system design guide, we’d like to show you what’s possible with the Vocia Nurse Call Integration (NCI) package in a small healthcare facility. The unique need of healthcare facilities for professional-grade networked public address, and voice evacuation systems requires a very specialized audio solution. With Vocia, the decentralized architecture distributes audio processing and page-routing across the network, which eliminates the potential for a single point of system failure. The NCI package enables a direct connection to supported Nurse Call systems such as Rauland-Borg. Because Vocia uses standard IP network protocols like Cobranet, it’s easy to scale your paging system from one floor of a hospital to…

Getting Started with Nexia

In order to help our customers better understand how to use the different Nexia devices, we’d like to give you some information about how to get started. To communicate with your Nexia device, you will first need to download and install the Nexia software. This is freely available on our website, and can be found at the bottom of our Nexia downloads page. The current version is Nexia Software V3.3. (If your device was purchased prior to July 2013, you will also want to download the most recent version of firmware, available at the same link.) The Nexia device will need to be powered on and connected to the same…

What If There Were a Social Networking + CAD Tool?

Wouldn’t it be great if product development teams could collaborate in real-time with a social networking-like tool? And what if it were connected to CAD, so that any member of the team could easily call out certain components on a drawing for discussion? This idea occurred to me after learning about the SolidWorks package that implements something similar within their tool. But I’m not talking about a tool that allows you to add manufacturer specs to a computer-generated document creator. I’m talking about a tool that could be connected to CAD (not within), and allow for instant messaging and the instant sharing of all product development documents, including exploded assembly…

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