NAB 2024: KMH Integration: Focus on Customers more than Markets

KMH Integration is focusing on the changing landscape of system integration at NAB 2024. The Brooklyn, NY-based integrator is highlighting its latest sports venue and broadcast TV projects, as well as a full roster of work in the A/V, media, entertainment, corporate, and arts markets.

This list of projects showcases KMH’s full range of consulting, creative, design, and integration services. It also highlights the company’s unified approach to any new project: placing a priority on collaborating with customers to deploy the right technologies that meet their needs. While each market does have unique requirements, starting with that foundational approach is the key.

“The lines between traditional system integration markets are being erased,” says 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.

Studio Set

Combined with the continued maturation of live streaming as a reliable and secure AV transport method, it’s now possible to cost-effectively produce clear 1080P or 4K HDR content out of PTZ cameras installed at a team’s training facility, and then mix and integrate those signals as part of a broadcast-quality stream.

For sports production, this flexible use of protocols for audio and video delivery in remote production and transmission is a significant benefit, allowing teams to easily produce podcasts, coach’s shows, new programming, and pre-or post-game interviews. A sports producer or director off-site can interact with a TD and talent on set as easily as if they were all in the same room.

At NAB, KMH will showcase its ongoing work with the Pittsburgh Steelers, including its most recent project phase providing technology and workflow recommendations that will keep the Steelers’ broadcast and production operations at its South Side facility current for the next several years. Another long-time KMH sports partner is the New York Giants. KMH Integration has deployed new digital production workflows and communications methods between MetLife Stadium and the Quest Diagnostics facility, installed an internal IPTV system and designed TV studios for new programming

KMH also worked with NBC Sports in Stamford, Connecticut to support the network’s ongoing upgrades of its existing production control rooms, and commission a new production workflow fully embracing a 2110 IP SMPTE integration.

KMH can deliver full on-site service combined with experience-driven design and consulting, comprehensive project management and a full slate of creative capabilities and managed services. The team has designed and deployed video networks, remote production workflows, IP encoding platforms, IPTV systems, virtual or centralized production, studios, control rooms, newsrooms, live-streaming, event spaces, lobby displays, multimedia presentation areas, conference rooms and classrooms.

Henneman noted that as customer requirements grow more complex, his team is increasingly being brought in to consult and plan at the earliest phases of a project.

“Organizations in almost every market are building on-site, broadcast-level studios to enhance their communications, both among their employees and externally,” he says. “They need reliable partners who understand every nuance of TV production, video distribution and content creation, especially with so many workflow options available to them. Our core expertise in broadcast system design seamlessly translates to facility success in any market, strengthening our ability to provide the best recommendations to customers in any market.”