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Crestron

The dominant AV name across twenty years — control in the Council chamber, the courthouse and the emergency operations center, then networked encoders and decoders carrying five sites as one fabric.

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 13 disciplines Crestron carried, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that named this manufacturer is counted, so this is the shape of what it carried rather than of the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Control systems rather than displays. In a chamber, in a courtroom and in an emergency operations center, the thing that has to work is the control layer.

Later the same name carried the transport as well: networked encoders and decoders in place of a matrix switch, with Fusion and RoomView managing the estate across five sites. That is the change that turned a set of rooms into a fabric — and the reason sparing against a single common encoder model became an availability argument rather than a purchasing one.

Where it appears

Declared on each entry rather than listed here, so this page cannot drift from the work it describes. What each entry named is quoted as it stands, with how much of that project rested on it and what stands behind the claim beside it. The first of those drives the height of the surface above.

City of Jacksonville