Creation Networks
Remote Monitoring
& Managed Services

AV remote monitoring is the continuous, real-time observation of every device in a meeting room, classroom, or signage network — control processors, DSPs, displays, cameras, microphones, codecs, and the underlying network — from a centralized operations center. Telemetry is collected automatically and analyzed for early warning signs of failure, so problems are addressed before a meeting starts rather than after a user calls the help desk.

An AV NOC (Network Operations Center) is the human team behind that platform. At Creation Networks, our NOC is staffed 24/7/365 by AVIXA CTS-certified engineers who:

• Receive alerts within seconds of any device degradation or failure
• Triage and resolve roughly 80% of incidents remotely, before users notice
• Open a ticket in your ITSM system, dispatch a technician, and follow through to root-cause closure when on-site work is required
• Deliver monthly and quarterly reports on uptime, MTTR, and room utilization

The result is a shift from reactive break-fix support — where every outage costs a meeting — to proactive managed AV services where most problems are invisible to your end users.

Creation Care is manufacturer-agnostic and built to watch the full pro-AV stack:

• Control & DSP: Crestron, Extron, AMX, Q-SYS, Biamp, Symetrix
• Video conferencing: Cisco, Poly, Logitech, Yealink, Neat, Crestron Flex
• Displays & projection: Samsung, LG, Sony, Sharp/NEC, Barco, Christie, Epson
• Audio: Shure, Sennheiser, QSC, Yamaha, Audio-Technica
• Signage: BrightSign, Samsung MagicInfo, LG webOS Signage

Devices that aren’t directly network-addressable are monitored through their host control system or via a local appliance, so even legacy hardware is visible to our NOC.

Yes. Creation Care monitors Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) and Zoom Rooms deployments alongside the rest of your AV stack — including the PC or appliance, the codec, peripherals (cameras, mics, soundbars), and the in-room control surface.

We complement, rather than replace, the native admin portals: Teams Rooms Pro Management and Zoom Device Management remain your source of truth for the meeting application, while Creation Care correlates that telemetry with the AV peripherals, displays, and room infrastructure most outages actually originate from. The result is one ticket, one engineer, and one root cause — instead of three vendors pointing at each other.

No. Creation Care overlays your existing infrastructure rather than replacing it. Onboarding starts with a system documentation audit: we inventory every endpoint, capture configuration, identify firmware levels, and flag any equipment past end of life. Devices are then brought online incrementally — usually without a single hardware swap.

Many of our largest accounts began as third-party installations we now monitor and support end-to-end.

Yes. Networked devices report telemetry directly to our monitoring platform. Non-networked devices — legacy projectors, older switchers, RS-232 endpoints — are monitored through their host control processor or through a compact local appliance that translates their state into the same dashboard.

The result is a single pane of glass covering every device in every room, regardless of vintage.

Two deployment models, both designed with your security team in mind:

• Cloud: TLS-encrypted outbound telemetry only — no inbound holes punched in your firewall. SSO-ready dashboards, role-based access, and audit logging out of the box.
• On-premises: a hardened ½-rack appliance lives on your network. All monitoring data stays inside your facility; our NOC reaches in only through a hardware VPN with internal firewall protections.

Either way, we work with your security team on segmentation, allow-listing, and pen-test review up front — before a single device is connected.

Our monitoring platform and NOC operations are aligned to SOC 2 Type II controls, with ISO 27001 alignment across data handling, access management, and incident response. Customer environments subject to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FERPA, or CJIS are supported through documented data-handling addenda and Business Associate Agreements where applicable.

We share current attestation letters and our security questionnaire (CAIQ / SIG Lite) under NDA during procurement — just ask your account team.

You own your data. Creation Networks acts as a processor, not a controller, for everything our monitoring platform collects from your environment.

• Storage region: US-based by default (AWS us-east / us-west); EU and APAC regions available for customers with data-residency requirements.
• Retention: 13 months of telemetry and ticket history are kept hot for trending and QBR reporting; longer archival is available by contract.
• Exit: on termination, we provide a full export of your configuration, ticket history, and telemetry within 30 days and certify destruction of all remaining copies within 90.

Specifics are documented in the Data Processing Addendum that accompanies every Creation Care MSA.

Telemetry is lightweight: typically under 1–2 Kbps per device in steady state, with brief bursts during firmware queries or diagnostic pulls. A 100-room site rarely exceeds 1 Mbps total, which sits comfortably inside any modern corporate uplink.

If a site loses its WAN connection, the on-prem collector continues monitoring locally and queues events. Once connectivity returns, the queue flushes to the NOC with full timestamps preserved — nothing is lost. We also surface the WAN outage itself as a top-priority alert so your IT team is notified the moment the site goes dark.

An alert lands in our NOC within seconds with full context — device, location, error code, recent history. An engineer triages immediately. If we can resolve remotely (about 80% of incidents), the issue closes before users notice anything was wrong.

Our alerting engine combines rule-based thresholds (lamp hours, fan speed, temperature, signal-loss, codec registration) with AI-driven predictive analytics that learn the normal behavior of each room and flag drift — a slowly-degrading projector, intermittent microphone packet loss, a camera that’s about to fail — days or weeks before the device actually breaks. Customers can also define custom alert thresholds per room or per business unit (for example, executive briefing centers get stricter SLAs than huddle rooms).

If on-site intervention is required, we escalate within SLA, dispatch a technician, and keep your team informed through your preferred channel — email, Slack, Teams, or your existing ITSM ticketing system.

Our NOC is staffed by full-time Creation Networks employees — no offshore call-center handoffs, no outsourced tier-1. Every engineer on the floor is AVIXA CTS-certified and cross-trained on Crestron, Q-SYS, Cisco/Poly, and the major VTC platforms.

Primary operations run from our US facility, with a secondary follow-the-sun pod that covers overnight and weekend coverage for global accounts. All engineers are background-checked and bound by the same data-handling and confidentiality requirements covered in your MSA.

Yes. You get role-based access to the same real-time dashboard our engineers use — system map, device status, open issues, ticket history, and quarterly performance metrics.

Common views include a global map for executive overview, a per-site detail view for facilities managers, and a device-level diagnostic view for IT engineers. SSO and SCIM provisioning are supported for enterprise rollouts.

A responsive mobile dashboard (iOS and Android web app) gives facilities managers and on-call IT push-style alerts and one-tap acknowledgment from anywhere — useful when an exec briefing centre lights up red five minutes before a board meeting.

NOC alert-to-acknowledgment is under 15 minutes for priority-1 incidents, 24/7/365. Remote diagnosis typically begins within the same window. On-site dispatch (when required) follows your Creation Care service tier:

• Silver: next business day on-site response
• Gold: 4-hour on-site SLA with priority remote queue
• Platinum: 2-hour on-site response with a dedicated technician

Monitoring coverage itself is 24/7/365 regardless of tier — only the on-site dispatch window varies.

After a decade of NOC data, the top recurring failure modes are predictable — and almost all are catchable in advance:

• Teams Room / Zoom Room offline — usually a Windows update, certificate expiry, or sign-in token refresh; we detect the disconnect and re-register before the 9 a.m. standup.
• Crestron, Q-SYS, or Extron processor unreachable — typically a power-cycle, IP conflict, or DHCP lease issue; remoted in within minutes.
• Codec freeze or camera disconnect mid-call — firmware-related; we patch on a maintenance window before the next escalation.
• Display HDCP handshake / no-signal — cable or EDID drift; we re-sync remotely or dispatch.
• Microphone packet loss or DSP audio drop — flagged by predictive thresholds days before users complain.
• Scheduling panel / room-booking device disconnect — often network-related; re-provisioned remotely.
• Projector lamp / laser end-of-life — usage-tracked, with proactive replacement scheduled.

Industry research puts the average enterprise meeting at 10–15% likelihood of an AV-related disruption; with Creation Care that drops below 2% on monitored rooms.

Creation Care is deployed across every major regulated and high-uptime vertical, with controls, contractual language, and NOC playbooks tuned to each:

• Healthcare & life sciences: HIPAA-aligned data handling, Business Associate Agreements, monitoring for telehealth, OR integration, and clinical training rooms.
• Higher education: FERPA-aware monitoring for lecture-capture, HyFlex classrooms, esports arenas, and campus signage networks.
• Financial services: trading-floor turret rooms, executive briefing centres, and global town-hall studios — with SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS alignment for card-data adjacent environments.
• Legal: deposition and arbitration rooms with chain-of-custody-grade recording and confidentiality controls.
• Federal, state, and local government: FedRAMP- and StateRAMP-ready deployment paths, CJIS compliance for law enforcement, and US-citizen NOC staffing where required.
• Broadcast & live events: studio control rooms, OB units, and production galleries with event-window white-glove SLAs.
• Houses of worship, retail, and QSR: distributed multi-site signage and audio networks, monitored centrally with local dispatch.

Firmware and patch management is a managed service inside Creation Care, not an afterthought. Our NOC:

• Maintains a tested firmware baseline per device family (Crestron, Q-SYS, Cisco, Poly, Logitech, etc.) and validates each new release in our lab before customer rollout.
• Pushes updates during agreed maintenance windows — typically overnight or weekends — with rollback procedures pre-staged.
• Tracks manufacturer end-of-sale and end-of-support dates against your inventory, so you’re never running unsupported firmware in a security-sensitive environment.

Asset lifecycle planning is delivered as part of every Quarterly Business Review: a forward-looking 12–36 month refresh roadmap by room, ranked by risk (age, failure rate, EOSL exposure) and tied to a budget recommendation your CFO can act on.

Most of the platforms buyers compare us to are monitoring tools. Creation Care is a monitoring + managed service: the tool and the engineers who act on it.

• Crestron XiO Cloud and Q-SYS Reflect are excellent single-vendor telemetry portals — they’re also limited to that vendor’s gear. Creation Care is manufacturer-agnostic and layers them into one cross-vendor pane of glass.
• AVI-SPL Symphony is a comparable managed-services offering; the practical difference is account model — with Creation Networks you get a named engineering team, direct NOC access, and faster decisioning than a global integrator’s tiered queue.
• Domotz and similar MSP tools are strong for network-device discovery, but lack pro-AV-specific intelligence (codec health, DSP signal flow, projector lamp hours) and don’t come with a CTS-certified NOC.
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management and Zoom Device Management monitor the meeting application; Creation Care monitors everything around it — the AV peripherals and room infrastructure most outages actually originate from.

If you’ve already invested in one of these platforms, we integrate with it rather than replace it.

The defensible way to model AV downtime cost is:

Annual downtime cost = (attendees per meeting) × (avg fully-loaded hourly cost) × (delay hours per incident) × (incidents per room per year) × (rooms)

Plugging in a typical mid-market enterprise — 6 attendees, $120/hr fully loaded, a 12-minute average delay (0.2 hr), 24 disruptions per room per year (industry baseline of ~10–15% of meetings affected), across 50 rooms — the lost-productivity cost is roughly $172,800 per year. That excludes reputational cost on client-facing meetings, escalation cost to in-house IT, and downstream rescheduling.

Creation Care customers typically see incident rates drop 70–85% within the first six months as proactive remediation replaces break-fix. Most engagements pay for themselves before the first QBR — and the per-room pricing model makes the business case calculable on a single slide.

Creation Care is priced per monitored room, with a flat monthly rate that includes every device in that room — control, audio, video, display, and peripherals — so you’re never penalized for room complexity.

Pricing varies by Creation Care tier (Silver, Gold, Platinum) and by total room count, with volume discounts at 25, 100, and 500 rooms. Optional add-ons — on-premises appliance, dedicated technician, after-hours event coverage, executive briefing room “white-glove” support — are quoted line-item. There are no per-alert, per-ticket, or per-user fees.

Reporting runs at three cadences:

• Real-time: live device status, alerts, and open tickets in the customer dashboard.
• Monthly: uptime, MTTR, ticket volume by category, and top-5 problem rooms — delivered to your inbox.
• Quarterly Business Review: a working session with your account team covering trends, lifecycle/refresh recommendations, and a forward-looking roadmap.

Room-usage analytics — occupancy, call-quality scores, peripheral utilization, no-show rates — are included on Gold and Platinum tiers and feed directly into right-sizing your real-estate and AV refresh planning.

Yes. Out-of-the-box, bi-directional integrations are available for the major enterprise tools:

• ITSM / ticketing: ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Freshservice, Zendesk, BMC Helix
• Collaboration / chat: Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Webex
• Identity: Okta, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Google Workspace via SAML / OIDC and SCIM
• Observability: webhook and REST API for Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, or your in-house SIEM

Tickets created by our NOC sync back into your system of record automatically, so your IT team never has to manage two queues.

Remote monitoring is bundled into every Creation Care service tier — from on-demand support through fully managed AV. The monitoring scope, coverage hours, and response targets align to whichever Creation Care tier you choose (Silver, Gold, or Platinum).

If you already have a Creation Networks service agreement, we can layer remote monitoring on without re-papering the contract. If you’re starting fresh, we’ll scope monitoring and field support together as a single Creation Care engagement.

Cloud-based pilots typically come online in 1–2 weeks for a single site. Multi-site rollouts and on-premises deployments are scoped per environment but follow a predictable four-phase plan:

• Discovery — system documentation audit, device inventory, firmware baseline
• Security review — segmentation, allow-listing, audit-logging alignment with your IT/security team
• Staged onboarding — rooms brought online in waves so we never disrupt active operations
• Operational handoff — dashboard access, runbook delivery, and the first 30-day check-in

Yes. We offer quarterly evaluation engagements for organizations that want to validate the program before committing to a 12 or 36-month term. The evaluation includes onboarding of a representative subset of rooms, full monitoring coverage, and a final review session covering uptime, MTTR, and the value captured.

Most evaluations convert to a standard Creation Care agreement — but if it’s not the right fit, you keep all documentation and walk away with no penalty.