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Dear ADENA Partners, this time we focus on Trafford Council in the UK and how it uses AREC products to ensure transparency and access to livestreams for local residents. The project, completed with our distributor Tukans and system integrator GVAV, demonstrates how AREC KL-3T stations make it simple for governmental institutions to reach all of their constituents day after day.
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of Trafford Borough in Greater Manchester. It is an organisation responsible for a variety of administrative processes in Trafford, such as setting the levels of council taxes, monitoring the health service, education, social care, and more. The council performs these duties through meetings, which must be recorded and streamed for transparency.
However, the original system in place for this was not performing as well as the council had hoped, as it was not easy to initiate and monitor the recording and livestream processes. The council started looking for solutions that could improve these and other aspects of meeting production, and our distributor Tukans, along with the system integrator GVAV, offered a complete solution that fully satisfied the council's needs.
The proposed solution was based on the AREC KL-3T Media Stations. These devices can combine up to 3 video sources with audio inputs into a single channel for recording and streaming. The stations also record these video sources separately at the same time, creating material for post-editing and independent viewing. The mixed video created by the Media Station can feature custom overlays and backgrounds, including logos of the organisations, titles of the speakers, advertisements, or other information.
The KL-3T model is a particularly good fit for councils, as it features an inbuilt interactive display that shows what the device is recording and streaming at all times. It also comes with a GUI that can be used to control all key features of the device with a single touch. This means that anyone, even without an IT or AV background, can record and livestream without any other hardware or software, thereby helping to save the budget.. Moreover, thanks to the inbuilt control and preview display, the stations are very portable and can be moved to different council rooms as needed.
The council uses Angekis PTZ cameras to capture the speakers from different angles. These cameras are automatically displaying the active speaker thanks to the Televic Confero CAM solution, which is connected to the station and generates names and titles of those speakers. The Televic Confidea G4 Discussion System is used to capture audio, with its central unit connected to the Media Station as an audio input.
The solution created for the Trafford Council simplified the production of council recordings to the point of automation — exactly what the council wanted! It is used to great success to ensure public access to all council’s meetings, which can be watched live on the Trafford Council YouTube channel. Alternatively, take a look at the stream from the council’s chambers - one of the locations where Trafford Council is using AREC devices.
Is your local council providing the same level of transparency? Reach out to us at www.a-dena.com and let’s discuss how we can improve their setup with the AREC Media Capture System.
