Unreliable audio, lagging video feeds, and incompatible meeting software directly sabotage corporate productivity and damage client relationships. When executives cannot seamlessly initiate a global video conference, or when a commercial facility suffers from dead zones in its public address system, the issue rarely stems from a single broken device. It is a symptom of fragmented, consumer-grade hardware operating without unified architecture.
Elmore Integrated Systems does not simply hang televisions or sell standalone projectors. We provide enterprise-grade Audio Visual Solutions and Commercial AV Systems engineered for zero-latency performance and absolute reliability. As a premier technology integrator in Ontario, we design, deploy, and support advanced AV infrastructure that bridges the gap between physical boardrooms and digital workspaces.
From deploying native Microsoft Teams Rooms in corporate headquarters to engineering multi-zone distributed audio for hospitality venues, we deliver end-to-end communication environments that are intuitive for users and highly secure for IT departments.
The AV Engineering & Installation Process
True AV Integration requires precise acoustic engineering, network topology planning, and custom software programming. Our end-to-end project delivery ensures that complex technologies communicate flawlessly before your staff ever touches a control panel.
- Site Assessment & Acoustic Consulting: We evaluate ambient light intrusion, room dimensions, surface reverberation, and existing IT infrastructure to dictate exact hardware specifications.
- System Design & Engineering: Our system architects draft detailed CAD drawings, signal flow diagrams, and thermal load calculations. We select vendor-neutral equipment optimized strictly for your operational requirements.
- Structured AV Cabling: Relying on Wi-Fi for 4K video distribution is a failure point. We hardwire your AV ecosystem utilizing high-bandwidth CAT6a or fiber optics, ensuring interference-free data transmission.
- Professional AV Installation: Certified low-voltage technicians mount displays, terminate connections, and build out organized, thermally managed AV racks in your server rooms.
- DSP Tuning & System Programming: We program the backend control logic and tune the Digital Signal Processors (DSP) to eliminate acoustic echo, feedback, and visual latency.
- User Training & Handover: We provide hands-on training for your workforce, ensuring maximum technology adoption and reducing internal IT support tickets.
Conference Room & Boardroom AV Solutions
The modern meeting space must provide absolute “meeting equity”—ensuring remote participants can hear and see as clearly as those sitting at the physical table. We design Conference Room AV and Boardroom AV Systems that eliminate friction and launch presentations with a single touch.
- Advanced Audio Capture: We eliminate tabletop clutter by deploying intelligent ceiling microphone arrays (from brands like Shure and Biamp) featuring beamforming technology. These microphones actively track the speaker’s voice while rejecting HVAC noise and background chatter.
- Intelligent Camera Tracking: Static cameras fail to capture the nuance of business negotiations. We integrate PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) and AI-driven auto-framing cameras that automatically zoom in on active speakers or frame the entire room based on occupancy.
- Wireless Presentation Systems: We replace messy HDMI cables with secure, zero-touch wireless presentation hardware (such as Barco ClickShare or Crestron AirMedia). Employees and guest clients can cast screens directly from their laptops or mobile devices without downloading third-party software.
- Acoustic Treatment & Output: We calculate the exact required Sound Pressure Level (SPL) and install discreet architectural speakers that deliver crisp, highly intelligible vocal frequencies across the entire boardroom.
Video Conferencing & Unified Communications
As businesses transition permanently to hybrid workflows, standalone video conferencing software is insufficient. Enterprise communications demand dedicated, room-based compute systems. We are experts in deploying and standardizing Unified Communications (UC) across complex enterprise footprints.
We design native, hardware-backed collaboration rooms that integrate seamlessly with your existing corporate licenses:
- Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR): Standardizing your interface so that every boardroom in your facility operates with the exact same one-touch-to-join Teams experience, utilizing certified hardware from Poly, Logitech, or Yealink.
- Zoom Rooms: Dedicated Zoom appliances and compute modules that provide frictionless video collaboration, interactive whiteboarding, and enterprise-grade security.
- Google Meet Hardware: Streamlined hardware kits integrated with Google Workspace for immediate calendar syncing and video initiation.
- SIP & VoIP Integration: We bridge your video conferencing hardware directly with your digital telephony networks, ensuring your meeting rooms can place and receive standard external phone calls over your secure IT network.
Commercial Audio Systems & Distributed Sound
From ambient background music in a retail space to life-safety emergency paging in a manufacturing plant, reliable audio distribution requires sophisticated backend processing. We engineer high-fidelity Commercial Audio Systems capable of managing dozens of distinct audio zones simultaneously.
The Role of Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
The brain of any commercial audio deployment is the DSP (utilizing industry standards like Q-SYS or Extron). The DSP takes raw audio from microphones, media players, and SIP trunks, routes it perfectly to specific zones, and applies heavy algorithmic processing to prevent acoustic feedback loops and echo.
Distributed Audio & Public Address Systems
- Background Music Systems (BGM): We deploy 70V/100V low-impedance audio networks that allow hundreds of ceiling speakers to be daisy-chained across massive square footage without suffering from voltage drop or signal degradation.
- Multi-Zone Paging Systems: Integrated directly into your desk phones, allowing management to trigger live voice announcements to specific facility wings (e.g., paging the warehouse without interrupting the corporate sales floor).
- Sound Masking: For open-concept offices, we deploy specialized white/pink noise emitters that dynamically raise the ambient noise floor, drastically improving speech privacy and employee concentration.
Commercial Video & Presentation Systems
When visual impact is the priority, consumer displays cannot compete with the brightness, duty cycle, and color accuracy of Professional Display Solutions. We engineer expansive video distribution networks for lobbies, auditoriums, and command centers.
- AV-over-IP Video Distribution: We replace restrictive traditional HDMI matrix switchers with networked AV-over-IP encoders and decoders. This allows you to route a 4K video source from a single media player to any display on your IP network with zero latency.
- Video Wall Solutions: Utilizing seamless Direct View LED (dvLED) panels or ultra-narrow bezel LCDs (from Samsung Business Displays and LG Business Solutions), we build massive, architectural video canvases for corporate branding and data visualization.
- Commercial Projection Systems: For massive auditoriums and educational lecture halls, we install high-lumen, laser phosphor projectors and motorized ambient-light-rejecting screens that deliver perfect contrast even in fully lit rooms.
- Interactive Touchscreens: We deploy responsive collaboration displays that allow teams to annotate over architectural blueprints or digital workflows in real time.
Smart Meeting Rooms & System Integration
The true value of a System Integrator lies in making distinct technologies operate as a single unified ecosystem. We eliminate the need for multiple remote controls by deploying centralized AV Control Systems (such as Crestron or AMX).
Through intuitive touch panels mounted on the boardroom table or integrated into the wall, a single press of a button can dim the lights, lower the projector screen, close the motorized window shades, and launch a video conference simultaneously.
To achieve this level of operational automation, we hardwire your AV infrastructure into your facility’s broader operational systems:
- [Network Infrastructure and Structured Cabling]: We engineer the high-speed CAT6a and fiber backbones required to support Dante audio networks and bandwidth-heavy 4K video streams without choking your corporate IT data traffic.
- [Automation & Control Systems]: We integrate your AV processor directly with your Building Management System (BMS), allowing AV hardware to communicate with HVAC and environmental controls for maximum energy efficiency.
- [Digital Signage & Displays]: When meeting rooms are inactive, we program the room displays to instantly switch over to your corporate digital signage feed, maximizing the utility of your screen investments.
- [Commercial Security System Solutions]: We link boardroom occupancy sensors to access control protocols, automatically powering down AV equipment when a room is secured for the night, or pushing emergency evacuation maps to all presentation displays during a fire alarm.
AV Solutions by Industry
Different sectors dictate vastly different technological and regulatory requirements. We engineer strictly tailored Business AV Systems across the commercial spectrum:
- Corporate Offices & Enterprise: High-security boardrooms, standardized huddle spaces, and centralized UC management to keep global workforces connected.
- Education & Higher Learning: Interactive whiteboards, localized PA systems, and lecture capture technology that seamlessly records and uploads classes to student portals.
- Healthcare Facilities: HIPAA-compliant telemedicine conferencing rooms, secure paging integration, and quiet-zone sound masking for patient privacy.
- Retail Spaces: We integrate massive in-store video walls and localized background music systems to maximize customer dwell time. These audio-visual deployments are frequently synced alongside our advanced [Retail & Transaction Systems (POS)] to trigger specific on-screen promotions during high-volume transaction periods.
- Hospitality & Entertainment: Multi-zone matrix audio routing for hotels, allowing the lobby, restaurant, and patio to play entirely different ambient music tracks from a single centralized media rack.
- Manufacturing & Government: Ruggedized, high-decibel PA speakers capable of cutting through heavy machinery noise, alongside ultra-secure, encrypted boardroom hardware for sensitive municipal meetings.
Upgrade & Modernization of Legacy AV Systems
If your facility is burdened by aging analog cables, VGA connections, or obsolete matrix switchers, a complete tear-out is not always necessary. Elmore specializes in AV Modernization and legacy technology refresh programs.
We assess your existing hardware and migrate your infrastructure from analog formats to modern digital and IP-based standards. We replace isolated hardware with scalable, cloud-connected UC platforms, ensuring your investment is future-proofed against the next decade of technological advancement.
AV Maintenance & Ongoing Support
An AV failure minutes before a board meeting with international investors is a critical operational crisis. We protect your investment through comprehensive Audio Visual Services and ongoing support SLAs.
- Proactive Remote Monitoring: We deploy network monitoring agents on your DSPs and endpoints. If a microphone disconnects or a display loses network connection, our technicians receive an automated alert and frequently resolve the issue remotely before your staff even notices a problem.
- Preventive Maintenance: Scheduled on-site visits to calibrate audio arrays, update secure firmware, clean projector lenses, and test system fail-safes.
- Rapid Troubleshooting: Priority dispatch for our certified Ontario-based technicians to minimize downtime in the event of hardware failure.
Why Choose Elmore for Commercial AV Systems?
- True End-to-End Delivery: We do not subcontract the difficult network engineering. From acoustic design to pulling low-voltage cable and programming the control system, Elmore handles the entire lifecycle in-house.
- Certified Integration Expertise: Our engineers hold advanced, industry-recognized certifications across leading platforms including Crestron, Extron, Q-SYS, Biamp, and Dante networking.
- Vendor-Neutral Architecture: We are not tied to selling a specific brand quota. We select the exact cameras, DSPs, and displays that best solve your specific operational bottlenecks.
- Local Ontario Accountability: Based locally, we provide rapid, boots-on-the-ground support to commercial enterprises across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
Areas We Serve
Elmore Integrated Systems provides professional AV design, installation, and integration services to commercial facilities throughout Ontario, including:
- Toronto
- Richmond Hill
- Markham
- Vaughan
- Mississauga
- Brampton
- Oakville
- Burlington
- Hamilton
- Ajax
- Whitby
- Oshawa
- Pickering
- Newmarket
- Aurora
- North York
- Scarborough
- Etobicoke
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an AV system?
An Audio Visual (AV) system is an integrated network of electronic hardware—including microphones, speakers, displays, projectors, and control processors—designed to facilitate visual presentations, audio distribution, and remote communication within a commercial space.
What is included in an audio visual system?
A commercial AV system typically includes inputs (microphones, laptops, cameras), processing and routing equipment (DSPs, video matrices, network switches), outputs (amplifiers, ceiling speakers, LED displays), and a centralized user control interface (touch panels).
What is AV integration?
AV integration is the engineering process of taking disparate hardware components from different manufacturers and hardwiring/programming them so they operate as a single, seamless ecosystem. It also involves connecting the AV hardware to the building’s broader IT network, lighting, and automation systems.
How much does a commercial AV system cost?
Costs are highly variable based on spatial dimensions and technical requirements. A standard huddle room setup might range from $2,500 to $5,000, while a fully integrated executive boardroom with native Microsoft Teams hardware, ceiling mic arrays, and custom DSP programming can range from $15,000 to $50,000+.
What equipment is needed for a conference room?
A professional conference room requires a commercial-grade 4K display, a video conferencing compute module (or BYOD wireless presentation gateway), a PTZ or auto-framing camera, a localized microphone array, distributed ceiling speakers, and a tabletop control panel.
What is the difference between AV systems and video conferencing?
Video conferencing refers specifically to the software and localized hardware (cameras/mics) used to connect remote participants over the internet. An AV system is the overarching physical infrastructure that supports video conferencing, as well as in-room presentations, audio routing, and environmental controls.
Can AV systems integrate with Microsoft Teams or Zoom?
Yes. Modern commercial AV systems are designed to natively host Unified Communications platforms. We deploy certified Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) and Zoom Rooms hardware that bridges high-end architectural microphones and cameras directly into the software interface.
What are the benefits of commercial AV systems?
Professional systems eliminate downtime, improve meeting equity for remote workers, provide crystal-clear audio to prevent communication fatigue, automate complex room startups to a single button press, and secure AV data traffic behind enterprise IT firewalls.
How long does AV installation take?
A basic meeting room can be installed and commissioned in 1 to 2 days. Complex enterprise deployments, such as outfitting a new corporate headquarters with multiple boardrooms, PA systems, and lobby video walls, can take several weeks and are precisely coordinated alongside your general contractors.
Can AV systems integrate with network infrastructure?
Absolutely. Modern AV relies heavily on Network Infrastructure (AV-over-IP). We integrate AV hardware directly onto your corporate network using secure VLANs and Quality of Service (QoS) protocols to ensure video and audio packets prioritize bandwidth without disrupting standard IT data flow.
What industries benefit from commercial AV systems?
Every commercial sector utilizes AV. Corporate offices use it for UC and boardrooms; retail uses it for digital signage and background music; healthcare relies on it for paging and telemedicine; and education uses it for interactive learning and lecture capture.
Do you provide ongoing maintenance and support?
Yes. Elmore provides structured Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that include proactive remote monitoring, routine firmware patching, preventive physical maintenance, and priority on-site troubleshooting to guarantee maximum system uptime.
