ADENA Hack: How to set up custom auto zoom level

On AREC CI-T21H cameras with FW 3.2.0.10 and higher, you are able to define your own auto zoom level. Whereas by default you have three zoom profiles to choose from, in the event these do not suit your needs, you can set up your own with just a few clicks. First, change “Zoom Offset” to “Custom”, then drag sliders below for the close range and the far range zoom levels, press applies, and it’s done. With your own custom zoom adjusted, you won’t need to think about manually controlling your camera, and you will be able to fully commit to the task at hand. Watch the video below to see how to configure custom zoom, or visit us at www.a-dena.com and learn more about AREC products.

Case Study: Telemedicine, Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, and AREC

Dear ADENA Partners, in this case study, developed together with our partner in Russia, ASCOM, we are writing about recording, streaming, and telemedicine in the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, and how AREC was instrumental in taking it to the next level. 

To accomplish its various tasks, the Ministry is divided into specialized organizations such as National Medical Research Centres. They are responsible for improving health standards, providing medical advice, and performing the most complex surgical interventions. To do that effectively, they require top of the line solutions. While they are fully equipped to deal with surgical matters, for a long time, Cardiology, Preventive Medicine, and Otorhinolaryngology centres did not have professional equipment for tasks involving spreading medical advice and telemedicine. The process of setting up, recording, exporting, editing and post-editing was simply too time consuming for the constantly busy healthcare experts, and so streams could only be done rarely. This was especially problematic for their telemedicine efforts due to the technical limitations of only using cameras to record everything. The Ministry of Healthcare recognized these centers’ problems and started looking for a solution - finding it in AREC.

Using AREC systems, particularly Media Stations KL-3W, LS-300, and Auto Tracking Cameras CI-T21H, allowed the centers to achieve the following tasks:

• Outfit surgical rooms with capturing, recording and streaming equipment that can mix diverse room equipment into a single video for educational and telemedical purposes. Track surgeons’ actions, live switch medical equipment during streams for the audience to see the readings, organize live chat between the doctors and stream spectators, backup recordings to internal FTP servers, and provide options for automatic and manual remote control.

• Equip conference rooms with equipment to help the centers create engaging and informative content. Capture both the audience and the speakers simultaneously from different angles and output a custom mixed video to social networks. 

With AREC Media Capture Systems in place, National Medical Research Centers are now able to perform their duties on a whole new level of efficiency, leaving professionals more time to take care of their patients. If you would like to know more about how AREC products can help in your projects, contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will gladly arrange a demonstration for you.

Case Study: How AREC engaged in education for Erasmus+ project

Dear ADENA partners, this time let’s look at Erasmus+ PRINTel project and how together with Firm Alpha, universities have prepared themselves for online education with AREC.

Before in-depth description, a few words about what Erasmus+ is. It is an EU wide program that also operates in adjacent countries, and that sponsors projects and other efforts to improve education standards. One of these projects is PRINTel. The main objective of this project is to improve the quality and level of education through the use of innovative products in 9 Higher Education Institutions of Georgia, Belarus, and Armenia. These products include lecture capture stations, auto-tracking cameras, interactive touchscreens, and document cameras. For lecture capture, PRINTel needed a solution that was easy to use, flexible, and capable of recording and streaming lectures for students to see and review. For auto-tracking, it was required for the solution to be smooth, precise, and to work with minimal input from the lecturers. In both cases, AREC proved to be the ideal system. 

A combination of LS-200 Media Station and CI-T21H Auto-Tracking camera was selected for every participating university. LS-200 is capable of creating a mixed video of two video sources (e.g. document cameras, computers, network cameras) and simultaneously stream it up to two platforms. The sources can also be recorded independently, making them available for post-editing. At the same time, front and back auto-tracking with automatic zoom provided by CI-T21H means that lecturers are always in the camera’s sight and are free to move as they desire. Very importantly, having AREC in place helped these universities continue their teaching largely undisturbed despite quarantine restrictions. Students can watch their lectures from the comfort and safety of their homes in Full HD, and because of numerous customizable layouts of video sources, students are able to focus on what is most important - be it lecture slides, document camera image, lecturer, or all of it at the same time.

Timely introduction of AREC systems to these universities has definitely upped the level of provided teaching and will help forge a new generation of professionals in these countries.

If you would like to know more about how AREC products can help your institution or company to continue and excel in an online environment, contact us on www.a-dena.com and we will gladly assist you.