Extron promotes learning and collaboration with AV at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

The switching, distribución y control AV de Extron se ha desplegado en los dos nuevos edificios de esta universidad católica de Colombia, equipping your classes, laboratories, common spaces and auditorium.

The Pontifical Javeriana University (PUJ), considered the first in Colombia, has campuses in Bogotá and Cali, in which it welcomes some of 21.000 students that are formed in their 48 university programs and 191 postgraduate, with specializations in sciences and humanities.

The recent construction of two buildings from this Catholic university, each of fourteen plants, to welcome the faculties of science and engineering reinforces the leading position of this academic institution. The first houses 36 research laboratories, 27 teaching and 25 common areas spaces, while the second has more than 96 classes in which students and researchers work on collaborative projects focused on data analysis, IA, etc.

The professional AV design and integration firm Stream OF, based near the main PUJ campus in Bogotá, has equipped both buildings with the switching technology, Extron AV Distribution and Control, ranging from classroom systems WallVault Digital y PlenumVault Digital (only available for the American continent) to touch screens TouchLink Pro, controllers MediaLink Plus, control processors IP Link Pro xi, transmitters, receivers and switches DTP Systems, ShareLink Pro presentation kits, audio amplifiers, DSP processors and speakers, inter alia.

The classes and meeting rooms in the Science and Engineering buildings offer various capacity capacities, with varying AV functions to offer many types of teaching scenarios, collaboration and presentation: from a group of individuals who gather around a screen in small rooms, to large audiences in classrooms with staggered seating.

Los AV system designs have been optimized for size and function of the spaces, that depend on the DTP signal extension to connect AV content from sources to displays, which supports lengths of twisted pair cable up to 100 metros.

Virtually every room offers several ways to present AV content: a dedicated computer, the visitor's laptop or other devices, wired and wireless microphones and PTZ cameras. Projectors are used to display video in larger rooms, while screens equip smaller spaces, although there are others that use both types.

The smaller rooms depend on the speakers built into the display device flat screen for sound, and larger ones play audio through two or more ceiling speakers that work with Extron amplifiers, with different power capacities.

In most rooms, amplifiers receive analog audio from a projector, a flat screen display device or a DTP receiver. In the largest spaces, including auditoriums, los Extron DMP DSP processors 64 More 128 Plus, with acoustic echo cancellation, optimize the features that best suit the acoustics of the room.

Audiovisual content sources connect to DTP transmitters on wall plates or directly to the HDBaseT inputs of displays in smaller rooms.. In larger spaces, with multiple sources and display devices, DTP CrossPoint matrix switches are used to route this content.

Several meeting rooms and laboratories equip ShareLink Pro presentation systems by Extron, that allow attendees to share AV content wirelessly. In the Science building, Five rooms have mobile electronic flipcharts with 65” touch screen to display content delivered wirelessly from mobile devices through this system.

As pointed out Harold Camargo, general manager of Stream NG, “Extron AV systems are characterized by their quality, efficiency and reliability. Control and user interface software is logical and stable, making programming and configuration of systems clear and fast. Another strong point is the versatility of its CrossPoint switching matrices., that integrate everything necessary for equipment control, signal routing, audio amplification and management.

AV technology also plays a prominent role in informing and entertaining the audience in the Science Building auditorium., which is used for debates and theatrical and musical performances requiring high sound production values, lighting and audiovisual support.

The DTP switching and distribution Eases long AV signal cable runs in this large space. And MGP multi-window processor 641 xi Enhance presentations with the ability to display up to four video sources on a single canvas and an annotation processor, Annotator 401, allows you to draw, pointing and typing over live presentations.

To reach the audience even more, there is a SMP streaming media processor 351 for capturing and distributing AV sources and presentations, such as live streaming or recorded content. A climbing bridge MediaPort 300 facilitates video conferencing through leading unified communications applications.