Make the room easier to use.
A useful control system turns several pieces of equipment into a clear sequence: start the room, choose the activity, adjust what matters and shut down reliably. Masters Voice Technology designs and programs AV control around the people using the space and the equipment already installed.
Planning a whole room? Start with our Meeting Room AV guide. This page focuses on control design, programming, integration and handover.
Meeting and training rooms
Coordinate displays, source selection, audio levels and conferencing. For divisible rooms, define how controls and audio change when the partition opens or closes, and provide an understandable manual override.
Explore BAT Australia’s meeting and training rooms →
Schools and campus communication
Provide staff with practical paging, bell schedules, zones and operating controls. Agree priority behaviour, authorised access and what staff should do when a device or network connection is unavailable.
Explore Leichhardt Public School’s PA and bell system →
Venues and multi-zone audio
Give venue staff access to the sources and levels they need without exposing engineering settings. Presets can support different trading periods, events and room arrangements.
Explore Sydney Park Hotel’s venue system →
Existing systems and upgrades
Assess the current controller, interfaces, device drivers, network dependencies and available project files. Establish what can be retained, what needs replacement and how changes will be tested before deployment.
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Choose the platform around the project.
The right choice depends on the installed equipment, operating requirements, support arrangements and future changes. Use our Q-SYS, Crestron and Extron comparison guide to assess the architecture, programming and support trade-offs, then explore the platform pages for implementation details:
Explore integrated audio, video and control for meeting spaces, schools and networked AV environments.
Explore programmable control and room workflows for connected commercial spaces.
Explore room control, signal management and commercial AV integration.
Explore control integration and support for AMX-based AV environments.
From an operating brief to a tested system.
- Define the activities. Identify users, room modes, start-up and shutdown behaviour, accessibility needs and permissions.
- Map the system. Confirm equipment, control interfaces, network requirements and integration responsibilities.
- Build and review. Develop the interface and control logic against an agreed sequence of operations.
- Commission on site. Test normal use, room modes, device recovery and agreed fault scenarios with the installed equipment.
- Hand over and support. Agree staff training, operating instructions, backups, project-file access and support responsibilities.
What to include in your control-system brief.
Send the site location, room types, equipment list, current interface photographs, recurring problems and any available drawings or programming files. Tell us who operates the system and which tasks currently cause confusion. For help defining the scope before procurement, read our AV consultancy and project documentation guide.
For an existing installation, access to source files, credentials or third-party licences may affect the assessment and upgrade scope. We will confirm those dependencies before proposing the work.
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