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Consolidating Visualization Management Across Higher Ed Campuses with the TRx Centralized Platform

The technology supporting higher education is rapidly evolving to meet the growing needs of students and faculty, both in-person and off-campus. The most visual example of this transformation is the adoption of digital displays. It is reshaping methods for content distribution and visualization experiences across many campus applications. The challenge is seamlessly sharing, distributing and visualizing content across different displays, devices, and video walls throughout a college campus.

A centralized unified visualization solution provides display management and content routing across a multi-room and multi-application ecosystem, with the same user experience for all visualization needs. A centralized platform can be used throughout many different applications across campus such as campus security operations center, visualization studios, classrooms auditoriums, laboratory monitoring, sports venues, e-sports, and flexible learning centers. VuWall provides unified visualization and video wall control solutions for the most effective distribution of visual information from any source to any display. Higher education facilities benefit from a flexible, versatile, and interoperable solution.

The focus of this article will cover 3 higher education applications where VuWall systems can bring value to the deployments:

1 – Campus Security Operations Center

The campus Security Officer has an integral and proactive responsibility for creating a safe environment – preparing for all hazards and actively promoting a safer place to study, work, and visit. The campus Security Operations Center monitors and responds to security incidents. VuWall’s TRx Centralized Management Platform provides operators with the visual information to monitor, assess and respond accordingly.

CHALLENGES

• High staff turnover requires constant need for training
• Lots of information from many different systems
• Multiple users from various departments
• Ability to share information with state, local and federal officials when necessary
• Need to share information with campus staff and executive team
• Ability to easily process messaging and notifications

REQUIREMENTS

• Intuitive end user operation
• Ability to automate user workflows and tasks
• Easy for users to customize with No Programming Skills
• Ability to directly integrate with video management systems
• Granularity of user privileges

RECOMMENDED SOLUTION

VuWall’s TRx Central Management Platform allows for the easy control of sources and how they are presented on a video wall. Thanks to VuWall’s VMS plug-in, the video wall can be controlled directly from within the Genetec or Milestone User Interface, so operators only need training on one interface. VuWall offers other feature-rich enhancements such as the Color Detection Server for the automation of workflows by being able to detect changes to monitored systems and then automatically triggering workflows to deal with incidents or calls as they occur. The VuWall TRx software also features User Rights Management with Active Directory and can even be part of a digital signage and a messaging system to help alert staff, students and visitors.

2 – Sports Facilities

Campus sports facilities, such as gymnasiums, auditoriums, and esports, are designed for a wide range of sporting and large-group events. The technology supporting sports facilities should be open and versatile. Ideally, a single AV solution would be used for all visual applications required for sports venues including public safety, AV source distribution, visualization, and digital signage.

CHALLENGES

• Campuses often support many sports venues such as football, baseball, and basketball, each with additional spaces such as sponsor suites, multipurpose rooms, and fan engagement areas
• Overlapping needs for live video production, display control, and campus security
• View and control of lots of displays with various of resolutions
• Too many systems that cross over applications but do not fulfill all the needs

REQUIREMENTS

• Systems must integrate in a mixed environment with broadcast, AV and IP/IT
• Must support non-standard display resolutions and large format display canvases
• Centrally controlled solution for system commissioning, content visualization, content sharing to multiple venues and monitoring of devices
• Easy to use and fully customizable by the end user with NO programming
• Real-time, near zero latency of live content is a must.

RECOMMENDED SOLUTION

TRx provides a centrally controlled solution for system commissioning, content visualization, and content sharing to multiple venues and monitoring of devices. Ideal for live events, TRx distributes content in real-time with near-zero latency. VuWall’s TRx provides a very simple HTML web-based control interface for quick system changes. This single solution can be used for public safety, AV distribution, display control, signage control and source content to and from a live production suite. Along with VuWall’s VuStream 500 series of encoders and decoders, get real-time AV distribution around a facility. These video streams can also be shared with other venues, helping reduce duplicate head-end source needs.  The TRx system also provides a Control Panel Designer providing the end user with a “PowerPoint” style interface to create and customize the system to specific needs without any programming.

The content of all video walls, individual displays, and groups of displays can be changed with the single push of a button or based on schedules. Support for time and date clocks, RSS tickers and other important information can be shared around a venue for better fan engagement. Public Safety teams can use the same system but with special user rights that prevent others from seeing and controlling their resources, keeping them separate from other operational needs. Everything is secured, granular, and under one complete ecosystem.

3 – Multipurpose Rooms