Open Source AV Standards for the Modern World
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Every standard, document, and dataset is freely available under CC BY-SA 4.0. No paywalls, ever.
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Standards are proposed and refined through an open RFC process. Anyone can contribute.
Practical First
Built by working AV professionals for real-world deployment. Theory informed by practice.
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Latest Standards
Published SANE standards, free to use and implement.
Defines recommended guidelines for AI use in professional AV practice, covering AI-generated text in communications and AI operational tools, with a focus on keeping human expertise and presence at the center of AV work.
Style, structure, and authoring requirements for SANE standards documents.
Establishes 'AV' (without slash) as the standard abbreviation for 'audiovisual' in all professional AV documentation, labeling, and digital systems.
Latest Deep Dives
In-depth technical explorations by SANE editors.
Every AV tech knows balanced audio is "better" than unbalanced. Fewer can explain why. And honestly, a lot of what gets repeated on job sites is half right at best. This piece is a ground-up explanat
If you've been in AV for more than a few years, you've probably had this moment: you need to look up a cable spec, a mounting requirement, or a signal tolerance. You know the standard exists. You know
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Perspectives, announcements, and deep dives from the SANE community.
Most AV standards live behind paywalls. You need memberships in multiple organizations just to read the specs for a typical install. That's not how engineering infrastructure should work. SANE — the
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