ELC Lighting wins PLASA 2011 Innovation Award for its Green-GO Communications over Ethernet system.

ELC was delighted to win one of the prestigious PLASA 2011 Innovation Awards for its latest product Green-GO. Designer Joost van Eenbergen and sales manager Silvio Cibien collected the award from PLASA’s Chairman Edward Pagett at the presentation ceremony at Earl’s Court in London. The judges commented, “The ELC Green-Go digital show communications system brings affordable show communications into the digital realm, incorporating features sets from premium systems in a cost effective package that includes digital voice communications, cue lights and text messages.”

Green-GO is a new intercom system that provides high quality digital voice communications, as well as optional and messages with cue lights, simply by connecting outstations anywhere on the same Ethernet network. 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 beltpack, wall-mounted outstation or multi-channel desk, all of which are powered via the network delivering standard PoE (Power over Ethernet).


The innovative design is in contrast to conventional intercom and cuelight systems (even the latest digital versions using Cat5 cabling), which require either independent wiring networks and/or expensive central router exchanges. The Green-GO development was focused on eliminating special connection systems and an expensive central communication matrix controller. Instead, Green-GO integrates with a universal network – Ethernet – that is now common in many places of entertainment and live events for lighting and sound control.

Silvio Cibien (centre) and Joost van Eenbergen (right) receive their PLASA 2011 Innovation Award from PLASA Chairman, Edward Pagett.

Reliable communication is vital in all live event situations, and Green-GO offers the advantages of clarity, through digital techniques, and versatility because the outstations may be connected into any part of a lighting or data network. Communicating with technicians no longer relies on the location of the nearest cuelight panel. The ability to provide audible cues as well as visual cues (cuelights and text messaging) means that synchronising manual cues around an arena can be matched to the environment (for example, visual and text cues for exposed locations in silent auditoria).

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ELC Lighting <www.elclighting.com> is based in Elsendorp in The Netherlands. It was founded in 1994 by Joost van Eenbergen, who worked on many live events and saw an opportunity to use this experience in the design and manufacture of lighting products for the theatre, concert, TV and live events industry in general. His development team is still closely involved in live events, and all ELC products are developed and tested ‘in the field’. Sales and Marketing are managed by Silvio Cibien <mailto:sales@greengocom.com> of Anima Lighting, based in Switzerland. The UK sales contact is Clive Cartey <mailto:clive@cartey.co.uk> <http://www.cartey.co.uk>. Further details are available on the Green-GO website <www.greengocom.com>
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