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IPE's IDS is Cool for School
Noise monitoring, whether ambient or within a signal, is a crucial
component of any professional broadcast or recording studio...

IPE's IDS system, which offers a noise
monitoring function that is totally
remote."
oise monitoring technologies live streaming, documentaries,
With the remote noise
can be bulky, static and, frankly, web
broadcasting,
music
monitoring issue solved, IPE
expensive if you have to buy a noise festivals, sports events and
and Southampton Solent soon
monitoring unit or system for every many other projects.
began to uncover other highly
studio you have, and most these days
According to Wills: "We
useful aspects of IDS, including
have plenty.
were concerned about the
the ability to synchronise clocks
Take Southampton Solent University noise levels being generated
throughout the networked
as an example, which gives its within the control rooms of our
studios.
students a highly professional training studios, so we started looking
With an integrated and
experience with a total of eight radio at possibilities for remote noise
highly expandable system like
studios, 12 recording studios, and three monitoring as well as noise level
IDS, Southampton Solent can
television studios - all of which need logging so there would be a
remotely pull up and examine
Radio studio at Southampton Solent University using
monitoring to keep unnecessary noise history available to interrogate.
IDS (digital clock) from IPE Products the exact same information
within pre-established thresholds.
from different studios and know
After initially being contacted
"Although we found a variety of that it is accurate.
by Southampton Solent University
noise monitoring products, they
One of IDS's additional strengths is
Specialist Facilities Team Leader
were all quite expensive and highly that its scalable system architecture
and Technical Instructor Jon Wills,
location-based, which meant that can be easily integrated with new or
IPE and Wills jointly determined
all monitoring and logging was self- existing equipment.
that IPE's information display
contained and location-centred.
This means that organisations can be
system (IDS) was ideal for what
We wanted something that would confident that their future-proof IDS
Wills required in terms of providing
only require a discreetly placed system will enable them to continue to
the ability to monitor, analyse and,
microphone in each studio that choose additional equipment and new
if necessary, rectify operational
could then be networked, which functions based solely on its suitability
aspects of the studios, which are in Music recording studio at Southampton Solent
is one of the things that appealed for what they want to achieve.
University using IDS from IPE Products
constant use for a combination of
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(Pictures courtesy of Jon Wills) to us when we first discovered

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