CASE STUDY: Wharton - UPENN

Equipping a central AV control system

Design Criteria

Located in Philadelphia, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The Public Technology group in Wharton Computing was tasked with creating a readiness plan should the threat of significant absenteeism due to illness affect students, faculty and staff. Wharton Computing discussed their needs with faculty, staff and Cenero to determine the goals of an integrated IT/AV system.

Solution

To effectively manage 75 conference rooms, labs, classrooms, auditoria and colloquia, requirements were defined, issues to be resolved were discussed and features to be added to the new system were determined. Crestron RoomViewTM Enterprise Management was chosen to deliver a complete facility-wide network control of AV resources and support simultaneous start of recordings in every classroom.

Cenero implemented Crestron DigitalMedia in six classrooms and meeting rooms across six buildings on the Wharton campus. DigitalMedia provides faculty and students with the ability to connect using both analog and digital laptops and Apple® iPad®. With DigitalMedia classroom sessions are now digitally recorded and posted for students to reference afterwards. All rooms also have audio and video conferencing capabilities, making the school on the cutting-edge of technology.

Key Applications

• High resolution projection utilizing Epson Projectors
• Vaddio video conferencing cameras
• Audio conferencing utilizing Polycom SoundStructure equipment
• Sound reinforcement utilizing Shure microphones and JBL Speakers
• Crestron DigitalMedia Control Systems
• Elo wireless touchpanels