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: APEC World Leaders Meeting recorded with AREC

Dear ADENA Partners, we are proud to share with you the news that AREC Media Capture Solution was used to record the APEC Informal Leaders’ Retreat. Held in New Zealand on the 16th of July, the meeting was dedicated to overcoming COVID-19 crisis and discussed its health and economic impact.

APEC is a regional economic forum that was established to foster the growing relationship between Asian and Pacific countries. Normally, this is facilitated by personal meetings of the member states’ leaders, but with COVID-19 difficulties, the organisation hosted the meeting virtually. While the event itself was held through Microsoft Teams, APEC needed a solution capable of recording it in the highest quality and to a standard befitting of such organisation. Out of a number of options, it was AREC’s LS-300 Media Station that fulfilled all of the requirements and was used to great success.

LS-300 can mix, switch, record, and stream multiple video and audio sources in Full HD quality at the same time, including video conference hardware and software. During the APEC meeting, the station mixed the Microsoft Teams’ audio and video with local cameras, sound system and custom graphics. It created a Full HD mixed recording of these sources and also recorded them independently for protocoling and post-editing. Moreover, AREC’s inbuilt Graphical User Interface made it easy for the operators to control the recording process - all of the key Media Station’s features were accessible through a connected monitor.

Functionality and ease of use of the AREC system made it an obvious choice for APEC, allowing them to continue their work regardless of COVID-imposed difficulties. Would you like to know how AREC can be used to help your organisation carry out its activities? Contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will gladly assist you.

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.