The just announced keyboard solution, along with the company’s new Signature M750 mouse provides users with work solutions that are designed for seamless device swapping to support a single mouse and keyboard across users’ work and personal computers. Logitech states the new Signature Slim Combo MK950 enables users to streamline their workflow processes through the ability to customize keys, buttons, and ready-made Smart Action templates using the Logi Options+ app, which is available for both Windows and MacOS operating systems.

Logitech also points out that its latest product can be used as a visual upgrade to users’ work and home spaces through the Signature Slim Combo MK950 keyboard’s laptop-like typing experience that provides users with a familiar and comfortable feel. The global company stresses the keyboard 62% recycled plastic for the graphite finish and 48% recycled plastic for the off-white (K950) model.

Some of the other features the Signature Slim Combo MK950 offers include a quiet typing experience using the company’s Silent Touch technology, as well as the ability to provide 8-degrees of typing angle, and as much as 36 months of battery life for the keyboard and 24 months of battery life for the companion mouse.

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“There are many parts and pieces to deploying a videowall system for a project of this scale and complexity,” says Hans-Joachim Spies, founder and managing director at Mevis.tv. “As an integrator, it’s paramount that everything works together seamlessly. VuWall’s ecosystem exceeded our high standards not only for performance, but also for scalability, flexibility and interoperability. It dramatically reduced our integration time and eliminated any concern about compatibility between the various products within the AV and IP infrastructure. It’s an exceptional system for an exceptional project.”

The Installation

SIMOS houses two independent control centers. This consists of the integrated control center (ILS) and the integrated traffic control center (IVLZ). The ILS provides around-the-clock operation and support for incoming emergency calls for the fire brigade and German Red Cross. Meanwhile, IVLZ is responsible for monitoring all of the city’s traffic and tunnel surveillance cameras. It also monitors electronic traffic display systems on the main roads, which are overseen by four dispatchers from the office for public order, civil engineering office, the Stuttgart tram and the police.

For this project, Mevis.tv installed two videowalls for each of the control centers. The ILS features a videowall comprised of 48 Barco UniSee 55-inch LCD displays. On the other hand, the IVLZ control room videowall features 14 Barco UniSee 55-inch displays. In addition, there are eight displays installed across two crisis meeting rooms that need access to the same sources. Although all these rooms are distinct, the VuWall system provided the organizations with a single, IP-based videowall processing and management system that connects them with a virtual infrastructure.

Ensuring High-Quality Performance

VuWall’s  videowall processor and VuStream encoders ensure high-quality video stream distribution across the network with low latency. It also ensures high performance for up to 4:4:4 of 4K video streams. The Application Server also provides quick access to websites, dashboards and applications from a single, centralized source. It achieves this with the necessary security and without overburdening the network. All these appliances are managed by the TRx centralized videowall management platform. As a result, it enables SIMOS operators to easily control and distribute visual information and data to any display or videowall on the network, says VuWall.

According to VuWall, the TRx is unique in combining AV-over-IP distribution and advanced multi-video wall and KVM management. Its engineering also allows it to be robust enough for multi-room distribution projects such as SIMOS.

The centralized platform ensures intuitive configuration, management and distribution of virtually any source type to any display without any programming. Its simple drag-and-drop capability also saves time for integrators and operators alike. Mevis.tv also benefitted from TRx’s API, which integrates with the organization’s Crestron building control system.

“We are so proud to see that SIMOS is leveraging the modularity, ease of use and reliability we’ve built into our ecosystem, fulfilling their objectives with this incredible project,” says Eric Hénique, EVP of international sales at VuWall. “Operators can see exactly what they need when they need it on the display of their choosing while providing the redundancy and low latency that control rooms demand. Plus, it all works seamlessly within their existing workflow for the most effective distribution of visual information.”

Another version of this article originally appeared on our sister-site Commercial Integrator on December 6, 2023. It has since been updated for My TechDecisions’ audience.

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The extenders are also suitable for traffic-management centers, retail surveillance centers, broadcasting distribution monitoring centers, command and control centers, emergency and rescue command centers, and operation control centers.

The new KVM-over-IP extenders can combine with ATEN’s KVM-over-IP Matrix Manager (CCKM). This allows it to extend, control, monitor and access DisplayPort-interfaced computers across an independent network with flexible configurations. Over-IP solutions allow operators to be separated from servers, while secure, remote access is facilitated, and servers remain centrally manageable.

Product Features

According to ATEN, the new extenders have the following features:

• Native DisplayPort signal processing with color depth up to 12 bits and support for HDR 10.
• Lossless video compression up to 5K with zero latency.
• Superior video quality up to 5120 x 1440 @ 60 Hz (4:4:4), 5120 x 2880 @ 30 Hz (4:4:4), 4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz (4:4:4), 1920 x 1080 @ 240 Hz (4:4:4), 2560 x 1440 @ 144 Hz (4:4:4).
• USB isochronous transfer that enables USB camera and USB speaker usage between transmitter and receiver.
• Network/power redundancy that reinforces system reliability by maintaining uninterrupted operations and seamless power failover during any contingency.
• Capacity to quickly switch between two ports in 0.3 seconds, with no blank screen transition.
• Boundless switching, which allows operators to switch control from one computer to another by moving the mouse cursor across screens, to quickly respond to anything with high priority.

“Control-room operations are being challenged to pivot effectively as workplaces face restructuring and decentralization is inevitably enforced,” Aaron Johnson, product manager at ATEN Technology, says. “Despite manpower shortages, managing escalations with secure, precise and timely data from real-time monitoring and dynamic collaboration has become measurably more mission-critical than ever.”

Johnson continues, “Incorporating flexible extender connections, visual collaboration, and system control, ATEN’s latest KVM-over-IP extenders aim to streamline control room workflows to jump start operators’ productivity, allowing mission-critical control room operations to become more ergonomic, user-centered and task-oriented, while remaining separate from any adverse environmental interference.”

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