Matthew Boulton - Case Study


Overview :
Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education have recently moved to a new state-of-the-art, purpose built campus in Birmingham's newly classified Learning Quarter. The college now resides within the largest further education development in the region.

Chase Park Technology Limited were chosen by the college to develop a solution to the following requirement.

Requirement :
At six prime, high traffic areas, within the college campus, display live video news and a high impact presentation on Plasma Televisions. The solution must me cost effective and scalable permitting additional "screen" deployments in the future. The solution must be deployed "live" from a single data source ensuring fast deployment of changes to the presentation showing, and employ a single point of control for "Live Video Transmission". The installation should be "impact-minimised" and respective of it's public sector environment.


Jennens Road
Birmingham
B4 7PS


Objectives :

- Meet the demands of the requirements with a cost effective solution.

- Ensure a technically sound and aesthetically suitable installation.

- Protect the investment of the client by planning for future growth of the system.

The Solution :
The Audio Visual design team devoted considerable consultancy time to refining the key requirements of the customer and producing a specification for the new system. This process involved focusing on the functional complications of these demanding requirements and supporting the client's on-site IT team to ensure suitability of the technology proposed by Chase Park Technology LTD.

Using Exterity Video to LAN encoders and IP-aware decoders College IT Technicians engineers are now able to "transmit" live video images from any AV-source (using a simple SCART connection) directly across the college computer network. By utilising the Picture-in-Picture features of the Panasonic PPDTH42PWD8b Plasma screens supplied the college are able to display both live video from "any source" and a Powerpoint based media presentation simultaneously throughout the campus, from only location within the IT department. Various mounting technologies were employed respective of the varying locations for deployment and included both wall and ceiling mounting.

This installation is entirely self-supporting and bears a near zero cost of ownership, the presentation can be updated easily and quickly from a single terminal and requires virtually no IT knowledge to maintain. Moreover the solution is fully scalable, additional screens and decoders can be added at any CAT5e terminal on the college network and "video streams" can be transmitted directly to the decoders IP address.

This solution was deployed using the following products

Panasonic PPDTH42PWD8b Plasma screens
Unicol PLW wall mouting brackets
Unicol Axia high level free standing stands
Exterity encoders and decoders

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