ELC Lighting’s GreenGo Communications over Ethernet is submitted for the PLASA 2011 Innovation Award

ELC is pleased to take part in the 2011 PLASA Innovation Award with its latest product GreenGo. This is a new intercom system that provides high quality digital voice communications, as well as optional and messages with cue lights, simply by connecting beltpacks and/or wall-mounted outstations anywhere on the same Ethernet network. For basic voice comms, 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 or wall-mounted outstation, 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 GreenGo development was focused on eliminating special connection systems and an expensive central communication matrix controller. Instead, GreenGo integrates with a universal network – Ethernet – that is now common in many places of entertainment and live events for lighting and sound control.

Communications is vital in all live event situations, and GreenGo 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).

The Innovation Award is also judged on benefits in promoting safety and energy efficiency. ELC believes that being able to communicate easily in a live entertainment environment using a universal Ethernet network will ensure that the whole technical team is in contact with each other to warn of potential safety issues, and to assist in fault-finding. Technical areas that are not usually cabled for performance intercom systems but have Ethernet outlets for dimmers, moving lights and other equipment, are now within reach of all members of the crew.

Regarding energy safety, by using an existing PoE Ethernet network, GreenGo places no demands on local power supplies (that are often left on overnight), replacement batteries (which can fail during a show, or are replaced before they are exhausted thus squandering energy and creating waste). With GreenGo, whenever the network is powered down after a show, power is saved in the intercom system as well.

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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 <sales@greengocom.com> of Anima Lighting, based in Switzerland. 

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