Chevron Engages KMH Integration for Corporate AV Upgrade Project

KMH Integration has completed the first round of system upgrades for Chevron in two locations (San Ramon, CA and Houston) as part of a multi-phase project to streamline and modernize the organization’s media workflow, supporting executive presentations, corporate Town Halls, lobby areas and a range of internal media and content creation needs.

The next phase will include defining final project requirements, production operations and workflow evaluations requirements, including an upgrade to an IP environment.

The Chevron engagement is the latest project managed by KMH Integration to merge corporate AV system integration with traditional broadcasting workflows – AV Casting, as KMH defines it.

“The lines between traditional system integration markets are being erased,” said Kevin Henneman, president of KMH Integration. “Integrators and designers need to stop thinking of AV and broadcast, for example, as separate disciplines. There’s been a true blending of broadcast workflows with what’s traditionally been considered AV technology. You can call it convergence – we like to think of it as ‘AV Casting’ — but it’s really about focusing more on what the customer needs and less about what their market is.”

Henneman attributed this shift in large part to rapidly evolving technology trends, especially recent advancements in AV over IP protocols that have created more options for offering lower latency and higher-resolution compression engines. Customers now have immediate and affordable access to high-performance capabilities that were, until recently, only available on higher-end products.

Now, with the current streaming technology and protocols – from IP 2110, IPMX, NDI, Dante, SRT – customers can configure a high-quality broadcast-level system that is fully IP-based, allows scalable control from a single platform and is budget friendly.