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Designed for use with the company’s WATCHOUT show composer, the WATCHPAX 40 media server for use in both temporary and fixed installations is a portable, high-performance unit that offers four times 4K playback and built-in EDID for smooth setup.

The new server features hardware-based EDID management and a smart restore/reset function which will appeal to rental and staging sectors or venues with multiple productions.

Barix announces the opening of a new research and development center for next-generation, intelligent audio technologies in Aveiro, Portugal.

The Barix Innovation Center focuses on “what’s next” for the company including audio analytics, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and environmental sound monitoring.

“The new age of intelligent, widespread devices that understand and hear their surrounding is only beginning,” says Reto Brader, CEO, Barix. “We expect widespread adoption of AI and adaptive learning innovations in all of our markets, and we are proud to have secured highly qualified talent in Portugal for our next-generation research and development team.”

The global server market continued to grow in Q4 2019, Gartner reports, as revenues are up by 5.1% Y-o-Y and shipments see 11.7% Y-o-Y growth. The same cannot be said for full-year 2019, as shipments are down by -3.1% and revenues by -2.5%.

"The market returned to growth with a very strong Q4 2019 result, largely driven by a return of demand from hyperscalers,” the analyst says. “However, the outlook for the worldwide server market in 2020 is subject to great uncertainty. The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is expected to temper forecast growth. Although demand from the hyperscale segment is expected to continue through H1 2020, other buying organisations’ reactions will vary.”

NoviSign launches a specially-designed line of freestanding and wall-mountable digital signage kiosks with an internal auto-dispenser providing 99.99% germ-killing sanitiser gel.

The kiosks support gel, foam or liquid sanitiser, and feature a metal enclosing and an integrated commercial-grade 21.5-inch digital sign managed via NoviSign cloud-based digital signage software. Connectivity comes through wifi, hardwire or 3/4G, and an Android media player comes built-in. The display comes in either touch or non-touch versions.