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Dear ADENA Partners, ISE is only about three weeks away, making it very fitting to share a case study that was made possible by this great show. After testing the solution with our local distributor, Sanel, Thomas More University in Belgium chose AREC to capture, record, stream, and save medical training sessions and mock operations conducted in the Lier campus simulation centre of this prestigious university.
Thomas More University is the largest university in Flanders, Belgium, with 12 campuses spread across seven cities in the region. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in 61 academic programmes, covering business, technology, sciences, healthcare, and other areas. It is well known that effective tuition of that many students requires the use of professional and reliable lecture capture equipment. To this end, the university staff attends various education and AV tradeshows seeking innovative technologies that can elevate teaching and learning to the next level.
During one such exploration of new technologies at the ISE, university representatives discovered AREC Lecture Capture systems. Finding the devices to be a perfect match for their needs — thanks to features like immediate playback, straightforward controls, and full support for network audio and video sources — Thomas More University, with the support of our distributor Sanel, decided to test the LS-410 Media Station in their simulation centre on the Lier campus.
The station was installed in the control room of the simulation centre and became its centrepiece, effortlessly recording and streaming complete training and learning sessions. It used RGB Link and Axis PTZ cameras, as well as a Susie 2000 nursing care simulator as video sources, and Shure MXA 910 and Audio-Technica ATND8677a microphones via Dante for audio. The university staff found the unit very easy to control thanks to its built-in Graphical User Interface (GUI), which provided access to all key functions of the device at the touch of a button. For instance, using the GUI, the staff managed recording and streaming processes, switched layouts, overlays, and backgrounds, selected sources to display on the station’s local outputs, controlled PTZ cameras, and used other functions. The station displayed the GUI through one of its four physical video outputs connected to an operator’s screen, while looping the nursing care simulator and camera feeds to displays in the simulation room and other locations.
The university also recognised the LS-410’s ability to record each video source individually and as part of a mixed video to be a major improvement over previous systems, providing all the resources needed to perform post-editing or sharing of high-resolution single-camera recordings. This was made even more impressive by another defining feature of AREC Media Stations — their ability to immediately play back any of these recorded video files. This greatly streamlined and accelerated the teaching process in the simulation centre, as with this feature, the lecturers were able to walk students through intricacies of recorded procedures whenever required.
With the LS-410 passing every test with flying colours, Thomas More University decided to adopt the system as a permanent solution for its other simulation rooms. Commenting on the experience of running the simulation centre with the LS-410, Nico Beckers from the university’s AV Services said: ‘The whole thing is already a lot tighter, more user-friendly and more complete as a solution than before.’
Is your university seeking to upgrade its lecture capture solution? Visit us at ISE 2025 at booth 2U130, book a personal demonstration, or contact us at www.a-dena.com. We would be delighted to answer your questions and provide assistance.
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