Case Study: AREC and Bosch Integration - Belgian Council Experience

Dear ADENA Partners, our case study this month is about one of the common applications of AREC Media Capture System for governments. With assistance from our distributor SANEL and integrator Avadis, the City Council of Leuze-en-Hainaut in Belgium introduced live streaming of municipal debates to the public.

Leuze-en-Hainaut is a quiet city and municipality in Wallonia. Despite its size, the city has a booming industrial zone Leuze-Europe, which is powered by many green energy projects that are taking place in the area. Leuze-en-Hainaut achieved this thanks to a number of factors, with one of the primary reasons being their strong local government. Building on that point, and to spread information and involve the local community in the municipal development plans, the city council decided to procure professional recording and streaming AV systems. AREC proved to be the most user-friendly option and combined functions of many devices, making it the best choice.

The council got AREC LS-200 and DS-4CU stations. LS-200 is a 2-channel Media Station that is able to record two different video channels at the same time and mix them with connected audio sources. These video sources can come from literally anywhere - computers, cameras, network sources, and more.

For the purpose of council meeting streams, one of the sources is a laptop with presentation content, whereas the other source is AREC DS-4CU Speaker Tracking Station. It allows users to automatically track active speakers using any of the integrated microphone congress systems. For the Leuze-en-Hainaut city council, that means Bosch CCS 1000D. Whenever a Bosch microphone is activated, one of the connected 4 AVer network PTZ cameras starts tracking the speaker. DS-4CU automatically changes camera layouts, overlay, and background graphics, all at the same time. You can see this effect yourself if you watch one of the sessions that the council published on their Facebook page.

Streaming council debates is just one of the many applications that AREC has for the government sector. Are you or your customers looking to create or upgrade recording and streaming abilities? Talk to us at a-dena.com and we will help you find the right solution!

Case Study: Italo-German Chamber of Commerce relies on AREC

Dear ADENA Limited partners, this time we focus our attention on the Italo-German Chamber of Commerce (hereafter AHK) based in Lombardy, Italy. Our official distributor Prase and system integrator Technosound created a live streaming hub with video conferencing capabilities by combining AREC Media Capture System together with products from Biamp, LG, and Shure.

AHK is a governmental organisation that fosters business relationships between Italian and German companies since the beginning of the 20th century. It provides support, consulting services, and training for companies doing international business. Given the nature of such activities, AHK must have easy to use and multifunctional solutions in place. To that end, system integrator Technosound created a studio capable of both live training webinars and video conference meetings, and AREC Media Capture System became the heart of this complex.

At the centre of it, there is AREC LS-300 Media Station. The 3 channel model combines, records, and streams up to 3 Full HD video sources in a mixed and individual format and provides an intuitive touch control method. One of the sources of LS-300 is a Biamp Modena Hub, which enables wireless collaboration for presenters from their own devices. The other two video sources are AREC CI-21H PTZ Network Cameras, which enable image capture from different angles. Presenters add their voice to the mix using the Biamp Devio microphone system. Combined presentation material and audio is outputted to a room with 43” LG screen and Shure SLX-D wireless microphone system for the local audience to see and participate as well when needed. Finally, the system allows AHK to use software video conference systems like Zoom, Teams, and others to seamlessly host and join hybrid meetings.

AHK relies on the completed studio for all its AV needs and carries out cross-national events with great success. Per the words of AHK’s representative Sonny Laurano, “We are satisfied with the result achieved which combines quality and ease of use”.

Do you need to create a multifunctional studio? Contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to assist you.

Text: Anastasia Yakimenko

Case Study: Building a perfect mobile set for the Building Agency, Denmark

Dear ADENA Partners, we are proud to share a case study from Denmark’s Building and Property Agency. Accomplished with our Danish Distributor UNIT.DK, the case shows how portable AREC solutions can be used to conveniently record meetings in governmental institutions.

Danish Building and Property Agency is a part of the Ministry of Transport, Building, and Housing, and it is responsible for the construction, facility management, and rent of government properties. Their work heavily depends on communication, as there are delicate details to discuss and schedules to confirm in every project. With quarantine restrictions limiting in-person meetings, a significant part of this work moved into digital space, where it can be easy to lose track of important information. For this reason, the agency required a reliable tool for recording meetings. And like other governmental institutions of Denmark, it was ahead of the game when it came to adopting the right solutions for remote working tasks.

Opting for the AREC Stay-in-Class Portable Set and adding a PTZ camera and advanced microphone system to it, the agency got themselves a perfect mobile recording and streaming kit. The key element of the Stay-in-Class, LS-200 Media Station, allows them to capture, mix, and record/stream up to 2 video sources simultaneously in Full HD quality. For the agency, these sources normally consist of content from a computer, such as construction plans and documents, and a PTZ camera image that focuses on the speaker. In addition to recording these sources in a layout of the presenter’s choosing, the station also allows the users to stream their presentation to two RTMP platforms at the same time, and also automatically backup recorded material to a server. Like all AREC solutions, the Media Station is designed to be user-friendly, and so it offers many ways to control, including interactive GUI, web and mobile interfaces. And when the agency needs to use video conferencing software, they can use another element of the set, RADA Bridge, to convert Media Station’s audio and video and use it as a microphone and webcam in the chosen application.

With the AREC Stay-in-Class set, the agency can make sure that all meetings are recorded in high quality and preserved, whether conducted in-person or digitally. If you would like to know more about how AREC solutions can be applied in your case, please contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to assist you.