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Audio Visual Technology for the City Council Chambers of Guelph,
2009-11-09

 Applied Electronics designed, supplied and installed audio visual systems in 4 Corporate Meeting Rooms, Committee Room, Council Chamber, and Councilor's Lounge in the City of Guelph's Civic Center. Three Corporate Meeting Rooms are each equipped with a 100 "(diagonal) The-Lite manual front projection screen while one meeting room has a 145" (diagonal) the-Lite manual front projection screen instead has XD2000U Mitsubishi projector and an Extron CIA111 wall plated-interface control system.

A brand new multi-purpose A / V system was built into the new Committee Room, incorporating the voting / microphone system from the existing council chamber. This room has a Panasonic DLP PTD5700UL projector with a the-Lite 100 "(diagonal) motorized screen. The Lectern is fully detachable and houses a high resolution document camera, laptop input and goose neck microphone. Seven delegate positions are each equipped with microphone / voting stations, a full voting display system and a fixed computer for running presentations. The system also has a DVD / VCR player, digital audio recorder, wireless microphone and is fully controlled by the Crestron control system and Crestron touch panel TPS6LB.

The new Council Chamber houses council members, the Mayor, CAO 2 seats, two Clerk positions, a Presenter's Lectern and table seats 8 staff, 4 press desk seats, and a 154-seat public gallery. The A / V system for the Council Chamber incorporates a Christie Digital DS +655 DLP projector, a the-lite 9 ft. x 12 ft. motorized screen, a ceiling-mounted document camera, table top and a document camera. In the Lectern that can swivel 180 degrees to address the council or the gallery is a display monitor, a delegate microphone station and a Crestron control panel, speakers, a DVD / VCR unit to run presentations, and projection screens. Twenty-five DIS microphone / voting stations are fully integrated with the AV system, Allowing display of the voting tabulations, request to speak and agenda items to be displayed. There are 3 wireless microphones and a complete hearing aid system available. The clerk's position also has a 10 "Crestron touchpanel on a swing arm that controls the lighting, microphone system, voting system, a separate DVD / VCR player, laptop computer input, and the Rogers cable TV feed. A Crestron TPS15B 15 "swivel touchpanel, base-mounted on the press desk for a remote system operator to assist clerks, allow full video preview capability and control.


The adjacent Councilor's Lounge is equipped with a complete A / V system and displays proceedings from the council chamber. Rogers also has 6 cameras feeding through the AV system to broadcast the proceedings to the public while Allowing the images to be viewed on the AV system.

 

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