- Enhancing Safety on Campus: Smarter Tools for a Faster Response
For students and parents alike, safety is now a key factor in choosing a university. The pressure on campus police and security leaders to create safe learning environments has never been greater.
- Modernizing DOT & Traffic Management Center Control Rooms
Historically, traffic management operations have relied on static tools: traffic cameras, radio reports, citizen calls, 911 dispatches, and manual rerouting. But the landscape is changing. A new generation of technologies is enabling agencies to move from reacting to incidents to predicting and preventing them, and vis/ability from Activu is the only control room video wall platform that ties them all together for proactive, Seamless Situational Awareness.
- Keeping Our Nation Safe: FIFA World Cup & Beyond
Keeping citizens safe is at the heart of public safety—whether you’re working in Homeland Security, an emergency operations center, or law enforcement. Visability delivers the most advanced and capable platform, giving control rooms the unified tools and real-time intelligence they need when every second counts and to reduce time to resolution.
- Fighting the Heat: Visability is Helping Utility Control Rooms Prevent Blackouts in an Era of Grid Uncertainty
For operators in utilities control rooms, every second counts, when you’re staring down a spike in demand and system alerts are flying, you need a reliable control room solution—not fragmented data on a dozen screens. That’s where visability comes in.
- Law Enforcement Combats Human Trafficking with the Latest High-Tech Tools
Visability from Activu is supporting the efforts, breaking down communication silos and delivering real-time information across Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) when every second counts.
- Road Intelligence: How U.S. Traffic Management is Shifting from Reactive to Predictive
Historically, traffic management operations have relied on static tools: traffic cameras, radio reports, citizen calls, 911 dispatches, and manual rerouting. But the landscape is changing. A new generation of technologies is enabling agencies to move from reacting to incidents to predicting and preventing them, and vis/ability from Activu is the only control room video wall platform that ties them all together for proactive, Seamless Situational Awareness.
- FIFA, Sport Riots & the Future of Public Safety Technology
As global anticipation builds for the FIFA 2026 World Cup—with 48 national teams competing across 16 host cities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—public safety leaders must ask: Is your city, stadium, and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) truly ready?
- Command and Control: How Visability is Revolutionizing Emergency Operations Centers for Wildfire Response
Visability is transforming how Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) combat wildfires—empowering them with smarter, faster, and more connected responses.
- Strengthening Texas Emergency Response: How Visability Transforms Emergency Operations Centers
From hurricanes on the Gulf Coast to wildfires in the Panhandle, the state’s geography, rapid growth, and economic importance present major challenges for emergency preparedness and response.
- Top 10 Trends in Hurricane Disaster Preparedness and Response
Visability from Activu is supporting the efforts, breaking down communication silos and delivering real-time information across Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) when every second counts.
- Making the College Campus Safer with Real-Time Situational Awareness
Campus safety is more than just a concern; it’s a deciding factor for many families. Visability from Activu empowers campus safety and emergency teams with: A Unified Operating Picture, Centralized Data Aggregation, Enhanced Collaboration Capabilities, and Flexible Deployment.
- Trends in EOCs: The Future of Tornado Management
As tornado season starts, vis/ability is revolutionizing Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), enabling them to take proactive measures before tornadoes strike, and respond in real-time when they do.
- Unified Response: How Visability Empowers Utility Companies
When utility companies collaborate effectively, response times improve, resources are optimized, and communities recover faster.
- Weather the Storm: Cutting-Edge Tech Trends for Utility Grid Stability
Visability from Activu is empowering utilities to prepare for and respond to severe weather faster than ever before.
- The Evolution of Utility Integrated Operations Centers (IOCs)
Power utility operators are unifying their internal operations through Integrated Operations Centers, while positioning themselves to better coordinate with adjacent providers, ensuring the grid stays lit in any situation.
- The Rising Threats Facing CEOs and C-Suite Executives: A Holistic Approach to Security
From direct physical attacks to sophisticated cyber intrusions, corporate leaders are becoming prime targets.
- The Rising Threat to U.S. Power Grids—And How Utilities are Fighting Back
Between 2023 and 2024, utility companies and electric grids in the United States faced a surge in physical security threats.
- Securing Critical Infrastructure: Trends in Utility Cybersecurity
The digital age has introduced a new and growing danger for utility companies —cyberattacks. These attacks stem from state-sponsored hackers, cybercriminals, hacktivist, terrorist and even amateur hackers.
- Securing the Super Bowl: Protecting Players, Fans and the Game
Security teams work tirelessly behind the scenes to safeguard players, coaches, and attendees from both physical and cyber threats, on one of the world’s biggest stages.
- Squeeze More Performance from your Command Center’s Monitoring Tools, Cameras, and Dashboards
This Myth would have you believe that proactive, real-time responsiveness in a crisis is impossible, due to the complexity of modern information. Read on to see why this is not the case.
- Breaking Communication Barriers: How Modern Software is Transforming Emergency Response
In a crisis, the worst thing you can do is silo information within one command center. Old A/V would have you believe this is the best possible, but a modern software-based approach radically improves the situation.
- Breaking the Hardware Myth: The New Era of Control Room Management
For too long, hardware has been the unquestioned go-to solution for command and control. Learn why this myth hasn’t actually been true for years, thanks to the availability of mature software-based operations platforms.
- A New Video Wall May Already Be Hanging in Your Control Room
While the display screens may be the most visually impressive piece of a video wall—and a significant portion of your control room enhancement budget—they are merely the endpoint for what truly matters in a control room: your critical information and content.
- Unified Response in Critical Operations
Every system in the human body is dependent on another. Each one intricate, efficient, and complex, executing a carefully coordinated…
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- Top 14 Command and Control Center Myths
Several myths persist about the capabilities and requirements of modern command and control technologies. Here are the facts to help you stay informed.
- Direct View LED (DV LED) Technology in Control Rooms
High-resolution indoor DV LED technology has become the preferred choice for control rooms.
- How Command and Control are Revolutionizing Energy Utility Operations
In the dynamic landscape of energy and utility management, the evolution from map boards to SCADA to today’s cutting-edge Energy…
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- Direct View LED (DVLED) Video Wall Build Time-Lapse
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- Activu on Energy Utilities
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- Emerging Trends in Traffic Management Centers
Swift response times are directly linked to improved outcomes for trauma patients. Each minute of traffic delay on a typical U.S. highway equates to 1 mile of backup. By integrating crowd-sourced tools, like Waze, into control room and video wall content, vis/ability from Activu empowers control room operators to react rapidly to developing incidents when their effects may be better mitigated.
- 3 Forward-Looking Trends in RTCCs
Law enforcement and public safety professionals often have the latest battle-tested technologies available to them in the command center and…
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- NOC your SOCs Off – Control Room Conversation with Paul Noble, CEO of Activu
In this episode of the NOC your SOCs Off podcast, host Dan Gundry interviews Activu CEO, Paul Noble, for insights about where the Next-Gen Control Room is headed.
- Visual Acuity Explained
By Paul Noble Visual acuity is typically measured using a Snellen eye chart. Someone able to read line eight from…
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- Control Room Visualization: The Future is Now!
Today’s video wall technology can and should match the operator’s visual acuity in the first row of consoles but with content ideally scaled to be readable by those further back.
- Control Room & Command Center Video Walls
A Guide to the Key Components All video walls comprise of three basic components: Modular Display Technologies: Projection Cubes For…
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- Secure Operations Centers: Mitigating Risk in Utility Control Rooms
Mitigating facility risk and control room security risk through fully NERC-CIP compliant video wall and collaboration platforms.
- Integrated Operations Centers (IOCs): The New Standard in Utility Operations
Streamlining and operational efficiency through an Integrated Operations Center (IOC) approach for utilities.
- Public Safety Power Management (PSPM): EnXchange Your Approach to Wildfires
Utility expert and CEO of EnXchange, David Swank, discusses a very hot topic in the utility industry today, safety, risk mitigation, and wildfires.
- Distributed Energy Resource Management (DERM): EnXchange Your Energy Equation
Utility expert and CEO of EnXchange, David Swank, discusses how organizations can use new tools to better aggregate and integrate their data from generation to toaster.