1. SonicLink
microphone arrays
Daniel Leonov
november 2013
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2. Audience interaction solutions
2. Queues
+ cheap and simple
- even more inconvenient
for guests
1. Wireless mics
+ cheap
- inconvenient for hosts
- inconvenient for guests
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3. Personal mics
+ comfy for everyone
- expensive
- far less reliable
- not for any room
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3. 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)
Usual microphone
120°
90°
Microphone array
120°
60°
150°
60°
150°
30°
180°
90°
0°
30°
180°
Signal
processing
unit
0°
Phono,
XLR,
S/PDIF ...
...
330°
210°
240°
300°
270°
330°
210°
240°
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300°
270°
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4. 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
!
!
120°
90°
!
60°
150°
0°
330°
210°
240°
300°
270°
90°
!
60°
150°
30°
180°
120°
0°
330°
210°
240°
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300°
270°
90°
60°
150°
30°
180°
120°

30°
0°
180°
330°
210°
240°
300°
270°
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5. Product
Mics
Hall
Stage
▫ No wires, stands etc. on the floor
▫ Easily scalable for any room
▫ Single (mono/stereo) mixer output
▫ No additional staff education required
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6. Summary
Price
Maintenance
Hosts
Guests
Reliability
Flexibility
easy
uncomfortable
uncomfortable
average
high
easy
comfortable
uncomfortable
high
high
comfortable
low
low
comfortable
high
high
Wireless mics
low
($500-1K)
Mic lines
very low
($200-500)
Personal mics
very high
($7000+)
average
comfortable
Mic arrays
above
average
($2000+)
average
comfortable
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7. Markets
APAC
~20%
Conference equipment markets
(Billion $)
Geography
5B
EMEA
4B
Americas
~30%
~50%
3B
5.0
2B
1B
3.4
Fields
2.1
Sound
0
~30%
2012
2014
2017
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Video
~70%
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8. Team
Daniel Leonov
Rifat Tuishev
R&D
Product developement
Analytics/marketing
Customer developement
Msc. Radioelectronic systems (BMSTU)
MSc. Radioelectronic systems (BMSTU)
Msc. Enterprise management (BMSTU)
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9. 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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10. Current status and achievements
FINT-2013: Winners!
www.fint.festivalnauki.ru
Also:
1. Collaboration with state technical colleges: soon
2. Partnership with BMSTU Innovation Center: very soon
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11. 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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12. Thanks
Thank you!
Daniel I. Leonov
daleonov@yandex.ru
identyme.com/daleonov
+ vk, facebook, linkedin, ...
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