Welcome to USAV Bandwidth, a show hosted by Chris Salazar-Mangrum, Vice President of USAV, and Patrick Whipkey, Director of USAV, to share their expertise and have insightful conversations with professionals from the AV industry.

Directly from Dublin, Ireland, our friend Tomás Mac Eoin from Hereworks joins the show to talk about the company’s efforts to develop an interface that helps to gather data from all systems inside a building and make the information tangible. We also go deep into what the role of a master system integrator should be like in network-based environments, as well as the future of integrator systems, systems security as a top priority, the importance of friendly and accessible UX, and the positive impact it has on compliance. Listen to this episode and discover the difference between smart buildings and intelligent buildings!

Jump straight into:

(00:50) - Introducing Hereworks: When did they start operating as an AV solution provider?  - “We started looking towards airports and how they work. They have loads of different disparate systems, but they have to speak to one another.”

(06:34) - Getting things named right: Why is it a good thing to bring all systems together through a MSI? - “We will start to learn how the building breathes, how people are moving in the building, what areas of the building are used more than others, so we can redesign.”

(10:14) - Beyond connections and firewalls: How is the company focusing on security issues? - “Actually part of our role will actually be to do security testing on any piece of hardware that goes into the building.”

(14:38) - Hereworks’ Happy™ Buildings: An introduction to the product focused on comfort and wellbeing: “The point is that you have a single source of truth for whatever software that you want to layer on top of the data. You go to the data and everything is there.”

(16:21) - The human side of data: How Hereworks began to sell and what is their customer's profile and values - “What was different about us was we always focused on the human. We always sold the end goal of what we were trying to do with this data.”

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