The 2011 Project:SUCCESS Winners:
First Place: Mauricio Barrientos- Independent Designer
Long time D-Tools user, Mauricio Barriento’s impressive contest entry included stunning project designs and details about a Manhattan based Stock Trading Firm that required a more effective communication method with their offices in Dallas and Los Angeles. Barrientos designed an integrated audio/video distribution system throughout the facility with an impressive combination of Crestron for the control system, Lutron for the lighting and shades, Sonance Speakers, and a Polycom phone system equipped with cameras. Barriento’s exquisite proposals, wire pull charts, line diagrams, schematics, scheduling and rack elevations demonstrated to his client that he was several steps ahead of his competition. D-Tools along with Visio allowed him to be more creative, which impressed his clients; so much that they have elected Barrientos to design the Dallas system as well. Barriento’s expertise and knowledge of D-Tools SI software allowed him to simplify a very complex system which won him First Place.
Winning Designs:
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1st place prize - Atlantic Technology - FS-5000
This sleek, 50”-long unit contains three extremely powerful, front speakers—left, center, and right—in a single enclosure. It’s perfect for the person who has a large flat-screen TV in a very big room, and simply wants an attractive, one-piece speaker solution without all the visual clutter of separate left, center, and right speakers.
Second Place: Bill Cole of Elite Media Solutions
Bill Cole’s project was created for a local builder who built a 9 million dollar spec house. He wanted Elite Media Solutions to merely pre-wire the house for the time being but Cole needed a plan to follow in order to properly complete the job. After discussion, Cole created a proposal in D-Tools including audio distribution, video distribution, a home theater, and home automation. The builder was extremely impressed with the amount of detail of the proposal and now show’s all of his potential clients Cole’s project when they are interested in purchasing a luxury home. His theater elevation design displays nice use of D-Tools scaled shapes and has become an essential sales tool because it provides potential clients end-result visibility. His professionalism along with his theater elevation design won him Second Place.
Winning Designs
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2nd place prize - URC – MX 5000
The MX-5000 is a 2-way wand-style touch screen color remote control that provides network control of many popular IP-based components. In addition to its stunning design, it offers a fully customizable GUI on a large color screen that sends vibrating “haptic” feedback confirming each button selection. The revolutionary MX-5000 brings the power of WiFi networking to the home theater without compromising simplicity.
Third Place: Andy Nerdahl of Service TECH, Inc.
Andy Nerdahl appreciates many features the software offers including the ability to create various drawings, proposals and change orders in one central location which greatly improves the ease in which they are able to show the client various options and revisions to the original project. Their 10,500 sq ft residential theater project boasts Crestron interfaces that allow control of house audio, distributed video, HVAC, the pool, lighting, security, CCTV & the intercom, 7 zones of distributed video, 16 zones of house Audio, 7 Crestron MTX-3 remotes, a 12” Crestron Touchpanel, 3 iPads, and 2 Equipment Racks. Since ServiceTech implemented D-Tools, they have doubled business each year. They continue to set new benchmarks of efficiency and profitability each year and according to Nerdahl, all of which would be unattainable without such an easy to use and customizable tool. Their attention to detail and use of nicely displayed icons and jpegs won them Third Place.
Winning Designs
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3rd place – Atlona Technologies DIS7-PROHD
Atlona Technologies presents the greatest tool any custom installer or integrator will ever buy. The DIS7-PROHD is a rugged 7” display designed to test any AV system. Able to capture EDID from displays, and display complete information including HDMI, DVI, VGA, Component, and 3D signals it is perfect for testing any complex system. With the DIS7-PROHD, say goodbye to wasting valuable time and money, ripping apart walls and ordering multiple testing equipment in order to trouble-shoot install issues
