Innovative Technologies, Inc. - Projects / Systems Integration

Social Security Administration

ITI provided a design-build of a digital television studio facility for the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Maryland. The project called for the design and integration of a four camera TV Studio, Production Control Room with Monitor Wall and Producers Console, an Equipment Room, Announcer Booth, Two Avid Edit Suites, Graphics Suite with 2D paint and 3D animation capabilities, and a Viewing Room. The system design provided for the distribution and monitoring of serial digital video (SDI) and analog video (NTSC) and audio. ITI interfaced with the client's architectural, electrical, and HVAC contractors during the facility construction phase to ensure building specifications complied with the technical operations. ITI completed detailed engineering documentation including floor plan layouts, equipment rack and console elevations, audio, video, control and intercom/interphone wiring diagrams, and connector pin-out details. ITI fabricated the complete system off-site at its corporate facility. System performance was verified off-site prior to shipping to the client facility.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

ITI was contracted to design-build a state-of-the-art digital television studio facility for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). Designed primarily to support the training mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the NCTC trains and educates natural resource managers to accomplish the agency's goals of conservation among fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.The facility consisted of a full 3-camera studio, complete with a master control center, production center, and several editing and graphic rooms for post-production. NCTC’s production division produces print, video, and computer-based multi-media products to support their training. The facility includes a distance learning facility connected to an uplink for satellite transmission, a state-of-the-art video production unit, graphics office, media and conservation libraries, and the Service’s national publications clearinghouse. ITI managed the design-build at the facility within budget and on schedule.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

ITI was contracted to design-build the HUD Training Academy (HTA) television facility. This included the design and integration of a custom Web Casting system, several Avid Edit rooms, a Production Center, and the provision of uplink and satellite services. The HTA program is linked via fiber optic to the Verizon Switching Center where it then gets patched to an uplink for satellite broadcast to HUD employees at nationwide HUD branch locations. Employees at HUD branch locations can not only hear and view the broadcast training programs, but they can also use response keypads to communicate with the instructors back at the HTA studio. The HUD employees can signal the instructor when they have a question or respond to questions posed by the instructor and signal the instructor when they have problems comprehending the lessons. The student responses can be tabulated instantly and instructors can measure student comprehension in real time during the broadcast. In addition, the television facility has been designed and equipped to easily incorporate graphics, computer-generated animation and PowerPoint presentations into the broadcast training programs.

Voice of America

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. For the past several years, ITI has completed several major television, radio, audio visual and custom software engineering and development projects including:

Designed & Built 28 Audio Mixing/Duplication Consoles;
Designed & Built 4 DV Edit Work Stations;
Developed a Customized Scheduling System;
Design-Build for the VOA Multimedia Broadcast Center. The 30,000-square-foot Multimedia Broadcast Center houses the central newsroom and is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are 5 radio studios with control rooms, 6 video edit suites, 2 voice booths and 2 digital audio mix/dub centers. Fronting the newsroom are control rooms and 3 sets for television programs.
Design-Build VOA's all music channel consisting of 1 editing studio, 2 production studios with shared server storage, and upgraded Language Audio production console studios.
Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) - “COOP” is an agency's operation contingency plan in the event of any emergency where the agency needs to relocate their operations. The agency's essential function can continue to be performed. The VOA COOP system consisted of five modular broadcast studios, six mini production bays, nine monitoring bays and central routing system for the distribution of all signals. This system is designed to broadcast within 12 hours of activating a COOP alert during an emergency.

VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 100 million people.