A new AES standards project, AES-X170, "Integrated Control, Monitoring and Connection Management for Digital Audio Networks" has been initiated. The project aims to create and standardize:
1. A set of structured Internet Protocol-based messages that can be used to control single parameters or groups of parameters, and to monitor these parameters. The parameters are associated either with typical signal processing functionality within audio devices, synchronization between such devices, or connections between such devices.
2. A mechanism for grouping of device parameters, and messages required to implement such grouping.
3. A mechanism for the control of latency within networks of audio devices, and a specification of the messages and parameters required for the control of such latency.
4. Parameter modifiers, and the messages required to create and configure such modifiers.
5. Security levels, and the messages required to set and get such levels.
There is currently no universally adopted specification for transmitting control, monitoring, and connection management information across audio networks. This project aims to create such a specification, and in so doing enable comprehensive control, monitoring, and interconnection of networked audio devices. Because the messaging within this specification is based on the Internet Protocol, it will be useable within networks that use various physical layers.
Development of this standard has been assigned to the AES standards working group SC-02-12 on Audio Applications of Networks. More information can be found at
http://www.aes.org/standards/meetings/init-projects/aes-x170-init.cfm
Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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