Following their success at PLASA 2011 by winning an Innovation Award, ELC Lighting's Green-GO digital show communications system designer Joost van Eenbergen and sales manager Silvio Cibien went on to win a second award at LDI in Orlando: the LDI 2011 'Best Debuting Product of the Year' award in the sound category.
Silvio Cibien said, "Although Green-GO can be considered an audio product, its main feature is that it uses any standard Ethernet lighting network, so it is really an extension of our comprehensive ELC networking product range that will be on show at Frankfurt."
Green-GO is a new style of intercom system that provides high quality digital voice communications as well as optional text messages with cue lights. An intercom system is created simply by connecting outstations anywhere on the same PoE Ethernet network (Power over Ethernet), which can be an existing lighting network, or any available Ethernet network.
The system is expandable to over 3000 users in a maximum of 250 groups (or rings). To create a simple wide-area digital intercom, just a set of beltpacks are needed - no expensive central matrix unit or separate power supplies are required - because all network data settings and preferences are stored in each outstation, and the basic units are powered via the network delivering standard PoE. Multichannel outstations, with added features, can also be powered from a mains supply.
Silvio Cibien concluded, "Green-GO was launched as a pre-productions system at PLASA and LDI at the end of last year, and we are now shipping production units to distributors all over the world."
(Jim Evans)
