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Daniel Leonov
november 2013
SonicLinkmicrophone arrays
Audience interaction solutions
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1. Wireless mics
cheap+
inconvenient for hosts-
inconvenient for guests-
2. Queues
cheap and simple+
even more inconvenient-
for guests
3. Personal mics
comfy for everyone+
expensive-
far less reliable-
not for any room-
Microphone arrays
Microphone array is any number of microphones operating in
tandem. Given proper signal phasing this system acts as one
superdirectional microphone. (Wikipedia.org)
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Signal
processing
unit...
Phono,
XLR,
S/PDIF ...
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Microphone arrays
Some features:
1. Electrical scanning (no mechanics at all)
2. Auto detection of direction of speaker
3. Auto speaker tracking
4. Several beams
5. Noise reduction even when noise source is inside the beam
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Product
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Stage
HallMics
▫ No wires, stands etc. on the floor
▫ Easily scalable for any room
▫ Single (mono/stereo) mixer output
▫ No additional staff education required
Summary
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PriceMainte-
nanceHosts FlexibilityReliabilityGuests
Wireless mics
Mic lines
Personal mics
Mic arrays
low
($500-1K)easy
easycomfor-
table
uncom-
fortableaverage
highvery low
($200-500)
very high
($7000+)
above
average
($2000+)
average
average
low
high
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high
comfor-
table
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table
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table
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table
uncom-
fortable
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fortable
high
high
Markets
Geography
EMEA
APAC
Americas
Video
Sound
~30%~50%
~20%
~30%
~70%
Fields
5B
4B
3B
2B
1B
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2012 2014 2017
Conference equipment markets
(Billion $)
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Team
Daniel Leonov
R&D
Product developement
Msc. Radioelectronic systems (BMSTU)
Rifat Tuishev
Analytics/marketing
Customer developement
MSc. Radioelectronic systems (BMSTU)
Msc. Enterprise management (BMSTU)
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Current status and achievements
R&D:
1. Research and modelling: done
2. All basic software: done
3. Hardware developement: in process
Marketing:
1. Market and rivals research: done
2. Project website: done
3. Search for customers: in process
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Current status and achievements
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FINT-2013: Winners!
www.fint.festivalnauki.ru
Also:
1. Collaboration with state technical colleges: soon
2. Partnership with BMSTU Innovation Center: very soon
Plans
By march 2014:
1. Find real customers and adjust a feature list
2. Make a first version of product and start selling it!
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Thanks
Thank you!
Daniel I. Leonov
identyme.com/daleonov
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