Wohler Debuts Two New Products

Wohler Technologies has unveiled two new products in its iAM Series – the iAM-MIX and iAM-AUDIO.

The signal- and data-monitoring devices provide broadcasters, OB operators, and studio facilities a range of network-enabled features that can adapt to continually evolving requirements, and which can also be controlled by third-party software via an API. Additional features such as browser-based remote monitoring are already planned.

The iAM platform offers a browser-based GUI to complement Wohler's traditional front-panel monitoring interfaces for remote control, and future options for remote monitoring, and logging. The use of SFPs enables simple, in situ adaptation of interfaces and a selection of signal I/O. In combination with other software-defined features, this creates an upgrade path to new and emerging technologies, such as Dante and AES67. Regular updates and licensable options will ensure users have the best available and most relevant features.

iAM-MIX has a front-panel control surface for individual master and per-channel mixing and muting, suitable for operators that require bulletproof auditory monitoring from a range of sources. A full-featured platform for eight- or 16-level control out-of-the-box, audio-only monitoring, iAM-MIX integrates with A/V router solutions to push and pull channel-name data. Wohler has sold hundreds of units to OB companies for operator and engineering monitoring positions and to sports productions for deployment in flypacks during the Rio 2016 Olympics this summer in Rio de Janeiro.

iAM-AUDIO introduces touch-panel interfaces to allow intuitive command and control of the unit and new I/O options including Dante and Ravenna combined with rich data displays and Wohler's audio monitoring.

Craig Newbury, Vice President of Sales, Wohler, explained: "The industry continues to move towards software-defined tools that can be extended easily and delivered to multiple users simultaneously. iAM is a response to customers who have asked for our award-winning monitoring solutions to be available across a modern media enterprise, with IT-based remote interfaces and rich data to complement our traditional operational front panels. Customers can now interface to Wohler monitoring in a way they have never been able to do before. Accessing our units via a network creates versatile, fully integrated monitoring points, with information accessible to remote operators and to workflow automation tools."

iAM-MIX and iAM-AUDIO are available for order now.

Image: Wohler iAM-MIX.

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