The peripheral shall provide eight (8) general-purpose inputs and eight (8) general-purpose outputs that are remotely configurable, providing an interface for LED indicators, switches, relays, potentiometers, and custom or third party controls to the peripheral. The collection of inputs and outputs shall have an individual +12 VDC terminal (up to 100mA available for each type, protected by a self-resetting fuse) and ground reference for use with potentiometers (input), relay coils and LEDs (output), or other purposes. Inputs and outputs shall be independently configurable from the system processor. The peripheral shall operate natively on a standard gigabit Ethernet infrastructure available from a broad range of network infrastructure manufacturers and shall support 802.1x authentication.

The peripheral shall operate on PoE or DC power input and have the following front panel controls and indicators: Unit ID button, green ID LED, and blue Power LED. A web interface shall provide basic network and security configuration, status, and log retrieval. The peripheral shall be natively integrated into Q-SYS Designer Software for network discovery, real-time configuration, control, monitoring, and supervision.

The peripheral’s rear panel shall provide two 2-pin power Euroblock connectors for daisy-chainable DC power, eight (8) general-purpose inputs and eight (8) general-purpose outputs on a dual-row 20-pin Euroblock connector with individual +12 VDC and ground pins, a recessed settings reset button, and two (2) RJ45 connectors for daisy-chainable Ethernet configured as Q-SYS Network ports: one (1) PoE port, RJ45 1000 Mbps only; one (1) Pass-thru port, RJ45 1000 Mbps only.

The peripheral shall feature multiple mounting options including a standard 19-inch rack or surfaces such as under-table or on-wall. It shall be one-quarter (1/4) rack space wide and less than one (1) rack unit tall (1.59 inches / 4.04 cm), allowing mounting alongside quarter-rack width QSC Q-SYS QIO peripherals using an optional rack tray kit. The peripheral shall include two (2) reversible steel angle brackets for surface mounting.

The peripheral dimensions shall be 1.59" x 4.25" x 5.5" (4.04cm x 10.80cm x 13.97cm).

The peripheral shall be the QSC QIO-GP8x8.