"InfoTrace is a ground breaking lighting design system that garnered an extremely successful launch in Europe where we won the PLASA Award for Innovation during the PLASA 2006 show in London," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "We expect a similar reaction to the InfoTrace System at LDI and look forward to demonstrating the system for everyone attending the show."
The complete system consists of a number of main components. At the heart of the InfoTrace Control and Management System is InfoGate, specialised software and hardware.
InfoTrace features an InfoChip, which allows DMX devices without RDM capability to be recognised by InfoGate and communicate back to the system once installed. Primary functions allowed by the InfoChip are discovery, identification, remote DMX address setting, control of the device and duty cycle reporting.
Another major component of the InfoTrace System is InfoStore, a Web-based aggregate information tool that provides reporting capabilities against the data reported from the system. InfoStore is capable of monitoring multiple shows or installations from a single laptop. From a show's site, InfoGate reports to InfoStore, which allows the user to generate reports and manage the installation.
(Jim Evans)
