Counting on AV for Success
Situation
AVW-TELAV was contracted by one of the world’s largest accounting services firms to provide design/build integration services for their new office. The project involved two rooms: a boardroom, and a multi-purpose training room.
Lessons from a previous experience made our customer wary of setting up a projector that has to work with a Smartboard as it usually would involve suspending the projector well into the room.
The Training room largely reflected the same functionality and control as the boardroom. However, it could also be combined with an adjacent meeting room (a removable dividing wall separated them).
Solution
In the boardroom, we resolved the projector problem by utilizing a combination of a projector set with the maximum offset possible and a ceiling-mounted projection lift that lowers the projector into position when in use and concealing it above the ceiling when not.
Inputs included a permanent PC with wireless keyboard and mouse (linked to the Smartboard) and auxiliary inputs available from an Extron pop-up table monument located in the table surface. A Crestron control system now operates all the room’s functionality including dimming.
In addition, audioconferencing is available through a wireless Polycom Soundstation series conference phone complete with extension microphones for improved room pick-up.
For larger events where the two training rooms are combined, one can now enable ceiling speakers in the adjoining room to provide the same audio re-enforcement as offered in the main room. AVW-TELAV also configured the setup to enable an audio input from the adjoining room, as well.
To enhance versatility, AVW-TELAV used modular tables that could be moved to any location or cleared all together for theatre style seating if required. As such, a floor input monument solution was required, utilizing Extron MAAP series input modules and a Wiremold “DeQuorum” series floorbox specifically designed to accept these Extron modules.
Results
Utilizing Crestron Dimming provided a significant savings from other available solutions as it was controlled from Crestron’s standard control bus rather than requiring a separate control interface. Users could operate the system either from a wireless 6” touch panel or from a 4” wall mounted panel by the entrance to the room.
Both rooms were completed with a combined budget of less than $60,000, proving advanced AV solutions can be achieved on a reasonable budget.
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