Innomesh manages 350 spaces at the University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, one of the four oldest universities in Scotland with 12 different faculties, choose the Innomesh platform Innomate to manage a hybrid education aspect that has more than 350 spaces with audiovisual control systems and more than 2.500 network solutions that require maintenance.

To address this growing number of teams to manage, The direction of Digital and Computer Services of the academic institution decided to rethink the way in which monitored their systems. Its objective was to integrate a solution software as a service (SaaS) giving you freedom over the choice of monitored computers and providing an easy migration path.

After studying the market, and in collaboration with Mark Dunlop, multimedia services manager, the University of Aberdeen chose Innomesh of Innomate. This management platform with license, by subscription y cloud based supervises, controls, protect and automate processes of the academic institution.

“We had a mix of control and audiovisual supervision, but none of them were particularly well configured or reliable. As part of my job, I had the opportunity to visit AETM in Australia, where I attended some presentations on how many institutions there had moved to cloud-based AV control management. Taking this into account, and given that our existing platforms posed cost and maintenance problems, it made sense to move to a more modern platform, where all data and supporting capacity are in one place: “an “always on” solution for which new features are released regularly.”, explains Dunlop.

The integration of Innomesh, distributed in the UK by Polar, allowed to unify the management of connected devices, labor that was distributed between various platforms and independent subscriptions. This fragmentation in the audiovisual ecosystem often caused the University to face serious problems on your network as a result of the constant updates of firmware and security, which led to complex debugging tasks.

Now, the platform of Innomate speeds up these processes, streamlining the day-to-day operations of the institution: “Although the change to Innomesh has not involved a small investment, will be largely offset by the savings we will achieve over time. In addition to the valuable data we can collect, that will help us manage the space, There are many other aspects that allow us to save costs”.