As part of an ongoing policy of seeking to improve its study environment, Northumbria University in the UK was looking to invest in PTZ camera systems for two large lecture theatres at its award-winning £100m (€113m) City Campus East.
The theatres, in the CCE1 building, host up to 400 attendees and are designed for both teaching and commercial hire, supporting conferences, talks, and large-scale events. The camera system was to provide automated presenter tracking and high quality capture for live-streaming and recording.
The University consulted with Yorkshire-based integrator AV2000, AV specialists in the education, healthcare, and corporate sectors, who recommended Avonic supplied by Polar, its exclusive UK distributor. Over the course of its three-year contract as Northumbria University’s exclusive AV integrator, AV2000 has transformed and enhanced numerous teaching spaces across the campus, delivering modern, high-performance AV systems which have significantly improved the learning experience for both faculty and students.
Northumbria University purchased the CD-Trac1 CamDirector Teacher Tracker Software Licence, and AV2000 equipped each lecture room with a CD500 CamDirector Teacher Tracker Software AI processing unit to process, analyse, and transmit video generated by two Avonic CM-70 20x zoom PTZ cameras it controls. Each system includes a plug and play CAP100 HDMI to USB 3.0 converter, which converts any HDMI input into an H.264 encoded USB 3.0 stream. Any source connected to the CAP100 can be used in multiple applications such as video conferencing such as Skype for Business, Zoom.us, WebEx, and more