The SDVoE Alliance strengthens the European Parliament's AVoIP content

With the deployment of more than a thousand terminals, he European Parliament has integrated into your IP-Ninjar room, an AVoIP solution IDK Corporation, based on the Started SDVoE, to simplify switching in all cameras and the work of interpreters.

He European Parliament (PE) It is one of the three legislative bodies of the European Union and its twenty-seven member states, responsible for approving European legislation and the only one elected by direct suffrage. Con 705 members, represents the second largest democratic electorate in the world.

Based in Strasbourg (France), EP plenary sessions and committee meetings are held in Brussels (Belgium), which are carried out in a traditional chamber, similar to a large conference room, with a capacity for one hundred seats and which is used about twenty times a year to hold sessions lasting between two and four days.

During the sessions, EP members meet with the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, politicians and spokespersons to debate legislation. There are specialized interpreters who are in charge of translating the procedures simultaneously into the twenty-four official languages ​​of the European Union..

Visualization Challenge

For this, the Brussels hemicycle has twenty-four interpretation booths to support the translation of official languages, which are located on the back of the camera, which is a visualization challenge, as interpreters need to see speakers and the material presented clearly to do their job with the greatest accuracy.

Room cameras are integrated to provide interpreters with a view of the podium and presenters while inside the interpreter booth. Even so, need to change fonts to simplify the viewing of cameras and the content of the presentations shown within the session.

Therefore, one of the demands was to have a solution with a minimum latency and with a instant switching between sources, to eliminate interruptions in the interpretation of sessions, along with an intuitive control interface that will simplify it.

The solution chosen to provide a single switch, Simplified and flexible throughout the camera series has been IP-Ninjar, developed by the Japanese manufacturer IDK Corporations. Each interpreter has its own screen, which allows you to switch between four sources, including camera view, of the presentation or the media and the speaker.

A fundamental element in the integration of this solution is that the speaker's vision facilitates the work of the interpreters by being able to see and read the speaker's lips up close.. The fountains are distributed in each of the cabins, including two interpreters and two screens in each. The initial phase of the project included more than eight hundred endpoints, while the second phase has focused on the interconnection and control interface.

IDK developed a four button selector allowing you to seamlessly switch between four fonts available for the interpreters, each programmed for simplified, instant switching.

Thanks to this, the traditional frozen frame or freeze frame and black screens between switches. The final solution currently includes more than a thousand endpoints, a landmark project with one of the broadest AV over IP integrations in the world.

The IP-Ninjar series is an SDVoE-based AV over IP solution from IDK, designed to provide low power consumption, by eliminating the need for an internal fan. In addition to fitting perfectly under interpreter booths, provides a reliable, low latency solution for transmitting and receiving AV content across the chambers of the European Parliament.

Besides, The solution is available with fiber optic and Cat6A connectors so users can choose based on extension distance needs, existing infrastructure or network switch configuration.

The Started SDVoE, to which the Japanese IDK belongs, offers a complete ecosystem of manufacturers with experience in signal distribution, screen manufacturing, IT infrastructure, AV software and chip design, so that the integrator has dozens of partners at its disposal to align with and products to choose from.