Controlling devices using a common, standardized open-source solutions is great. SMPTE has recently made the ST 2138 (Catena) suite of five documents available as Public Committee Drafts, with all kinds of associated goodies on their Github repo. This is all available today, for free, for implementers to try out.

What if we could take this all a step further, and use and Agentic AI approach to controlling any device that talks SMPTE ST 2138? Today, this is possible. Among many other cool features you get automatically for implementing 2138, there is the ability to describe what the devices are, and how they can be controlled…in plain English.

What this allows is for AI Agents to do everything that Catena can do. This opens up capabilities like voice control for any 2138-enabled device in your facility, regardless of platform, vendor, or type of device. Imagine the possibilities!

We will show how this is all possible and what use cases this enables in this engaging talk/panel discussion.