Best Design Meets Technology Award

SY Vertigo by Liquid Automation

This honor considers the marriage of a ship’s unique aesthetic and the solutions aboard that vessel: How does the technology blend in? How does it simply disappear where it needs to? How does it enhance the space with lighting or specific display functions?

Liquid Automation achieved those results — and more:

Since this yacht was used for both charter and private use, the client required a system that could seamlessly adjust the AV environment to match each mode. To achieve this, we implemented a centralized mode selection system, accessible from both the Crew Mess and Bridge touch panels. This allowed the crew to switch between private and charter modes with a single command.

That functionality included:

Apple TV® media extender profile switching, toggling between two centralized stacks of Apple TV media extenders: one preloaded with the owner’s personal accounts for private mode and another configured with ship-wide accounts for charter use.

Custom media library switching: In private mode, the system provides access to the owner’s videos. In charter mode, it switches to a dedicated commercial video library, ensuring a more guest-friendly selection.

Personalized audio profiles, leveraging DM NAX amplifiers that allow the system to prioritize the owner’s hometown stations in private mode while offering a broader selection for charter guests.

Liquid Automation “also offered an intuitive interface to control the user's environment from lighting, blinds, and ceiling louvers to a custom stabilized high-power PTZ camera mounted at the top of the mast.”

Best Entertainment Everywhere Solution

MY Savannah by ONEXP

Marine integrations require AV solutions that are available in both social areas and private cabins, from movies to music to sporting events. This superyacht refit by ONEXP answered these questions: How is that content delivered? How easy is it to get the media you are looking for to play in any given space? And what kind of quality entertainment experience is delivered to each destination, from dedicated theaters to multi-room audio and video, or from a full nightclub to an outdoor cinema?

ONEXP was faced with a yacht that had issues, including slow HDMI® switching, images that dropped from displays, and an overall lack of reliability. The crew and the owner just didn’t feel confident with the system.

The fix included a complete makeover with DM NVX AV-over-IP solutions. The team notes:

The results are already incredible; we have now achieved a reliable system without any unexpected behavior, a system that is fast, easy to use, simple to service for crew, and all of it fully in 4K.

Our team has replaced the entire central AV system, we have added new custom slide-out racks specifically designed and produced by ONEXP to fit the original room precisely, all distribution racks have been replaced, we have updated all local TVs and all outdoor speakers, and last (but definitely not least), we upgraded the famous two-story M/Y Savannah video wall.