SMCCD educational center standardizes its AV solutions with Crestron

To simplify existing technology and optimize the experience for students and teachers, he SMCCD opted for AV solutions from Crestron for classes, conference rooms and auditoriums.

After other projects previously carried out with Crestron, the SMCCD decided to bet again on its AV solutions. This time to implement them in classrooms, conference rooms and auditoriums. The objective was to standardize all spaces, with easy-to-use solutions that can easily scale across the entire campus.

San Mateo Community College (SMCCD) is a district made up of three universities that serves more than 31.000 students with campuses from San Francisco to San José, in Silicon Valley. The first two years offer training in a wide variety of degree and transfer programs, as well as vocational-technical programs.

Alexis Arreola, IT construction project specialist, y Joseph Demissie, director of IT Support Services at SMCCD, They wanted to simplify technology in classrooms and create an easy-to-use experience for students and faculty..

With the aim of reducing the amount of equipment in your conference rooms, the SMCCD found in Crestron Flex M-Series the perfect solution, since they provide great audio and video quality in calls, and wireless presentation capabilities of AirMedia allow you to share content, both in conference rooms and classrooms.

“All of our teachers have used wireless presentation in their classes and have shared amazing feedback about its ease of use”, explains Arreola. “Before they had difficulties with the systems if they forgot their dongle, but AirMedia has eliminated those complications”.

With a variety of training programs, each classroom is built slightly differently to support different pedagogical styles. Regardless of the provision, the core of each room is based on a presentation system DigitalMedia and a Crestron touch screen on the lectern. The SMCCD has been able to deploy consistent technologies in all its classrooms, and with the platform AV Framework Those facilities have been more fluid than ever, by streamlining the setup of each room and maintaining a familiar user experience for faculty and students.

For certain active learning spaces, the SMCCD has deployed Crestron endpoints DM NVX AV-over-IP for advanced content sharing capabilities. Students can break into groups and project the screen to collaborate with the entire class. DM NVX has provided more flexibility to run content, whether from one classroom to another or from one classroom to the cafeteria.

“Crestron DM NVX is a reliable system that offers unlimited capabilities. Besides, we know that your update, “Expansion and evolution will be simple if we need to replace the hardware”, comments Andrew Jones, Vice President of Sales, Computing and Educational Technologies from Rahi Systems.

On Skyline Campuses, Arreola and Demissie partnered with Rahi Systems to install DM NVX AV-over-IP technology for flexible content distribution in a large event space.

Rahi Systems designed a custom user interface that was as intuitive as possible for their new Skyline space.

“The DM NVX product line provides our team with the versatility needed to create a custom user interface for our customers.”, explains Kyle Prescott, Director of Engineering at Rahi Systems. “Other solutions are limited with switching occurring in the background, but DM NVX provides us with unlimited flexibility”.

Con dos videowalls, in configuration 4×4, Crestron DM NVX provides an easy-to-use system that allows SMCCD to host and operate private parties and corporate events without bringing in third-party resources. The event space is a destination with expansive views of the Pacific Ocean and state-of-the-art content distribution that can be customized for any event.

All over campus, Students and administrators alike have enjoyed the simplicity of a single user interface. Regardless of the application, Crestron has enabled SMCCD to achieve its goal of delivering a seamless technology experience without disrupting the design elements of the space..