Extron AV Technology Facilitates the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge at UNC

The NAV Pro AV over IP Extron, along with your videowall processor, encoders and decoders and touch screens configure the audiovisual system to carry out the surgical medical days at the Faculty of Medicine of the UNC in Chapel Hill (Us.).

Like their counterparts among America's leading medical schools, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Northern California (UNC) in Chapel Hill incorporates surgical medical days as an integral part of its curriculum, whose objective is to provide an attractive educational format for the resident community, Staff and students.

Local speakers, regional and international topics present a wide variety of clinical education topics, scientific research, technological advances and related issues affecting current and future UNC surgeons.

"Providing the best healthcare to everyone through innovation, Research and training for the next generation of surgical care healthcare professionals and scientists", point out from the UNC.

The medical community worldwide can participate via streaming through the Internet. This also satisfies the core value of the Hippocratic Oath.: that physicians actively and openly share their knowledge to improve patient care.

To support this goal, the UNC department of surgery involved Christopher Ferrer, AV engineer of the computer department of the university to design and install the necessary audiovisual infrastructure, as part of the renovation of the fourth floor of the building Burnett Womack of the Chapel Hill campus.

The creation of a Surgical Education Center, with the capacity to 140 people, connecting UNC surgeons with their counterparts was central to the project.. Ferrer hired the professional integrator ClarkPowell for AV design and installation services, that selected the technology of Extron for switching systems, AV distribution and control.

In addition to the spacious Education Center, The project includes new office spaces and conference rooms, that have been completed after three years of work. When UNC's new surgery tower opens this year, the final stretch of AV connectivity to the operating rooms of the tower will be established through the computer network.

Videowall processor

Whether attendees are in the front row, on the last or other side of the world, The Surgical Education Center's AV system helps UNC surgeons section major concepts as skillfully as when they hold the scalpel in their hands.

Placed in front of a videowall (from 7.3×1,5 metre), a smart lectern streams the video and audio presentation to the AV system from the guest speaker's lectern computer or laptop.

Other sources of AV content include media players and a wireless access point for mobile devices. There are also inputs from a computer located in the control room and from multiple PTZ cameras throughout the space..

the videowall Led direct vision It is formed by screens on the left, center and right that work with up to six 4K HDMI sources through a processor Quantum Ultra 305 by Extron, which allows a very wide latitude to display video images in windows on screens with resolutions, Mixed formats and orientations.

The Quantum Ultra videowall processor also provides signals to the two reference monitors with portrait orientation that face the lectern and allows, during video conferences, Display local content images, shared and remote participants simultaneously as three separate images.

Six flat-panel computers, located above the audience, reinforce the view of the rear rows. To interact with attendees remotely there are AV transmissions to a video conferencing system culm, to software codecs for unified communications platforms such as zoom, and a media processor for streaming SMP 351 from Extron to send live video, Store and archive on the platform Panopto Capturing training sessions.

A control processor IP Link Pro IPCP Pro 555 Manage all room functions, including AV signal routing, PTZ cameras and room lighting. Users make their selection through an interactive user interface on the touch screen Extron TLP Pro 1220MG 12" wall.

Control room staff can assist speakers with AV content delivery during training sessions using the computer located in the control room, as well as with the flat panel display device connected to the computer network of the NAV AV, and a desktop touchscreen TLP Pro 1220TG 12", that duplicates the functions of the touch screen that the live speaker is using.

AV Content Distribution Center

AV over IP NAV Pro encoders and decoders connect every AV source to every AV destination. The system manager Extron NAVigator configures and controls the NAV system.

NAV Pro was the natural choice for this app because it sends video, audio and control of the AV system over the UNC data network with ultra low latency and has a simple and economical expandability.

These qualities are essential for an AV system that transports real-time video and telemetry of patients' vital signs between a large and growing group of destination points., as the Education Center with all its sources, display devices and Internet streaming, conference rooms and staff offices with AV equipment, Screens in lobbies and entrances, and VA operating rooms 24/7 in the new surgery tower of the UNC hospital.

Audio amplification and control

The renovation of the building Burnett Womack, of four floors, included the construction of conference rooms that are used independently or as an extension of the Surgical Education Center.

Both rooms have identical AV services. An Extron switching matrix DTP CrossPoint 84 4K, with audio power amplifier and processor IPCP Pro control Integrated, connects selected AV content to a flat-screen touchscreen interactive display.

Speakers can select AV content from multiple sources: Guest laptops via switch DTP T USW 233 three-way, The conference room computer, Mobile devices through a wireless access point, a video conferencing camera or any source on the AVoIP NAV network through a NAV Pro set-top box.

A desktop touchscreen TLP Pro 725T 7" in the conference room controls the functions of the audiovisual system, including system power on and off, AV source selection, the audio volume, Etc.

As Christopher Ferrer points out, "Using our data computer network, we have been able to send any AV source to any display device. The videowall Led direct vision and the wide choice of window designs and video scaling is possible thanks to the Extron Quantum videowall processor, that provides a perfect sample to present a large amount of information, as patient reports, Live photos and video, all at the same time, and readable both near and far. All this, together with AVoIP NAV network, connecting all meeting spaces on the fourth floor, have exceeded expectations".

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