The ETH Zurich university renews its digital signage network with 120 BrightSign players

The campus has a large number of NEC and Samsung screens installed, as well as Panasonic projectors. BrightSign's XD1030 and XD1032 media players are responsible for providing content to this digital signage network and offering video and IPTV services to classrooms and conference rooms..

El Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) It is shown in the rankings as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. More than 18.500 students, belonging to more than 110 countries, and they are pursuing their doctorate near 4.000. Its staff is made up of about 500 professors dedicated to teaching and research in engineering branches, architecture, mathematics, natural sciences and social sciences. Besides, in this educational center they have studied, taught or carried out research work 21 of Nobel Prize winners.

In order to optimize your digital signage network, The university decided to replace the existing Windows players and install 120 teams BrightSign XD. “With the new equipment we no longer have to do Windows updates and we have put an end to errors and pop-up windows. The new structure causes much fewer problems than the previous one”, comments Armin Brunner, Head of Multimedia Services de la ETH Zurich.

For this project, the XD1030 and XD1032 models have been used., which have been supplied by the Swiss company Media Solutions, and are used to provide the information displayed on the screens scattered around the campus. Its objective is to guide visitors and optimize the presentations that are made in the conference rooms that the educational entity has..

ETH Zurich is using 75 of these equipment to push the contents to the digital signage network installed on the campus. They are responsible for providing the content to the projectors of Panasonic and to the screens 40, 55 y 65 inches of NEC y Samsung that are installed in reception areas and other common areas. The goal is to provide information to students, staff and visitors about class schedules, events they hold and different promotional videos.

Others 20 media players are located in the new student restaurant and are used to inform about the food offered.

Video and IPTV services

Los 25 Remaining equipment has been installed to offer video and IPTV services in classrooms and conference rooms. The infrastructure deployed allows live transmission of meetings held from one room to another. This is done through the players and allows the university to scale, in a simple way, emissions. They are also used to play video content during classes to support teaching..

The university has 85 conference rooms and is planning to install a BrightSign player in each of them.

Besides, The University has launched an IPTV service made up of 45 canales, which are preconfigured on the touch panels in each room, and can be selected at any time.

For content management, The university is using the BrightSign Network Enterprise Edition solution “since it allows us to store them on our own servers and have them managed and controlled by those responsible for each department”, explica Armin Brunner.