Two in a row for Green-GO Ethernet-based intercom system.
Following their success at this year’s PLASA in London by winning an Innovation Award, ELC Lighting’s ‘Green-GO’ digital show communications system designer Joost van Eenbergen and sales manager Silvio Cibien have returned from LDI in Orlando with a second award: the LDI 2011 ‘Best Debuting Product of the Year’ award in the sound category.
Silvio Cibien said, “After winning the PLASA Innovation award in London we were delighted to pick up another award in the USA. We have attended every LDI since we started the company back in 1998, but this has been the best one for us. There was great interest in Green-GO, especially after we won the award, and because of this we started signing up regional distributors in the USA on the booth.”
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 PoE Ethernet network (Power over Ethernet). 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. Multichannel outstations, with added features, can also be powered from a mains supply.
Silvio continued, “We have appointed Stagelight as our distributor for Green-GO in Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas so far, and we are planning on a national network of maybe 10 to 15 distributors that will be announced as soon as they are appointed.”
The innovative design of Green-GO avoids the problems with 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.
The complete range will eventually include a selection of outstations in single beltpack and wall panel versions as well as desktop multi-channel formats from 4 to 32 channels and a 12-channel 19” version that can be master/slave connected to create a 24-channel system. Interfaces to other intercom systems are also being planned for the Green-GO system.
Silvio concluded, “Green-GO was launched as a pre-production system at PLASA in September, and we are doing the final manufacturing checks now. We plan to begin shipping from January 2012.”
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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.
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