James King

If I break the touch panel in the room, that breaks it for others.

Or the touch panel is like I'm not 100% comfortable, but I can muddle around my phone and make it not look like I'm uncomfortable, but in front of the class or in front of the board,

in a board meeting trying to hit panel buttons and maybe i'm not sure what's going to happen that puts eggs on my face and i think that is why we see that timid oh well i'm going to use my own device because i don't want egg in my face and also if i break it i don't break it for me right well the performance anxiety sometimes you don't want to be the one who's goofing up in the room like i totally get it anything you would add steve

reinvent the wheel in every room you want to be able to kind of multiply these systems and have it apply at scale right yeah no one thing i would i wanted to add is that we didn't really touch on and that is going like diversity with the app you know personal devices is the security like to have a personal device communicate with the av system you've got to grant them access to it

And then that opens up security concerns and all that stuff where you have a closed system.

Even if you do a centralized close, and what I mean like do a centralized AV control system where you can talk to servers and stuff and not go for personal devices.

then you can control that security a little more.

We can't control security on personal devices.

We can set best practices.

We can say, hey, here's the firewall rules and stuff.

But if someone goes and takes their phone home and they want to access a non-appropriate site and then get Merrill on that and then you bring it into your environment and that is going across your network, that's a big concern.

Most schools and stuff, you know, the Wi-Fi is segregated.

It doesn't have access to other areas, especially the guest Wi-Fi.

So if you open up that their personal devices can connect to the AV system, you're putting a hole into your security.

Again, I want to echo what Steve said.

Thank you, Dan.

Thank you to the CIA listeners who are bringing these questions to Dan so that Steve and I can address them and hopefully are answering the concerns that our listeners and the CIA readers have to programming.

And Dan has always done a great job of being that conduit of bringing these questions forward so we can get them addressed.

Hopefully they're in the way everyone wants to hear them.

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