The hardware department is the ‘nursery’ of our product lines. What is destined to provide crystal clear connections across the globe has its beginnings in the heads of passionate audio and video pros who collaborate closely with experienced specialists for circuitry and electronic assembly design.

It is not just the ‘inner qualities’ that determine the overall performance of the Intercom 2.0 systems. A robust, durable ‘outer package’ is just as important to protect the devices against extreme temperatures, weather and violence.

It is a thorough commitment to this principle that drives Commend’s team of highly skilled mechanical engineers. In mechanics, too, the challenges are many and varied, as every application environment imposes its own, specific requirements. This applies to the vandal-resistant station in the road tunnel just as much as to the antiseptic wall terminal in the operating theatre. Still, as the new Series WS of wall-mount stations shows, this does not mean that the product design cannot be all this and stylish as well.

It is the firmware that sparks the finished hardware products to life and supplies the devices with the required "intelligence" to "understand" control commands and provide ultimate Intercom convenience to users. This is the specialty of a team of dedicated firmware programmers, who also ensure that the devices improve their ‘knowledge’ with regular firmware updates to adapt the products to new customer needs and technical advancements.

Any hardware is only as good as the software that allows it to be put to good use. This makes software development the top priority where customer and user satisfaction are concerned. No wonder, then, that at the Commend software laboratories the lights never go out. Staying ahead of application development is the name of the game when it comes to getting the enormous data flow of the Commend systems under control with easy-to.use, pin-point accurate software for central control desks. For this purpose, the software applications translate the sometimes highly complex audio, video and control connections into elegantly simple, intuitively usable graphic user surfaces. With control desk and management software packages such as ComWIN or ComOPC, Commend’s internal software house ensures that the communication signals reliably end up when and where they are needed.