Media
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Project Scope
The Paradise Forum Shopping Centre is a recently re-developed, high footfall commuter route that joins Birmingham’s main transport links with its business and shopping district as well as inner city exhibition, conference and event venues.
Two large 15 screen video walls, utilising the thin bezelled NEC 4620, one positioned above each entrance/exit of the centre incorporating live TV, local and national advertising plus local news as well as weather and travel information. Key objectives for the video walls are to provide vital travel and news information to the people of Birmingham as well as giving businesses and initiatives in the Birmingham area the platform to develop within the community. The project also sees Europe’s largest single use of directive ‘sound shower’ audio technology and a ‘festival’ specification Bluetooth broadcaster which beams latest offers and promotions to mobile users in the centre.
Overview
- A single Nexus Video Wall Player is used to drive the entire array of 15 screens.
- The NEC 4020 40” LCD screens were chosen for their world class display quality and ultra-thin 16mm bezels.
- The screens were arranged in a 5×3 strip configuration and uniquely mounted in landscape orientation to seamlessly blend in with the overall interior design space as an architectural feature.
- The Nexus Video Wall treats the entire visual area as one large logical canvas so that any piece of content can span across any number of screens for truly flexible visual layouts with full HD capabilities.
- Content for the video wall is designed, managed and delivered through the network using AppSpace.
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Higher Education
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Anglia Ruskin University Rivermead Campus, Cambridge, Peterborough & Fulbourn Campuses Cambridge, UK |
Anglia Ruskin University installed 12 screens in prominent, high traffic areas in the campus.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a busy 4 site University campus. In its first phase Nexus installed 12 screens in prominent, high traffic areas around these sites. The purpose of the network is to provide students with vital Campus, Classroom, Event, Social messages as well as “business critical” messages. The system also promotes another communication channel; the ARU website, where every one of these messages is also delivered to by the Nexus platform as an RSS feed. Simultaneously this is also delivered to student mobiles that have RSS readers.
Also incorporated was a custom component, normally not present with RSS, whereby ARU could gain sign off from administrators for messages provided by university departments before they go live to the various channels. Digital Signage network or website, no message takes more than 30 seconds from being published to it reaching its destination.
The next phases of the project see Nexus working in tandem with the university’s departments to develop design, efficiency, features and infrastructure so that the end result is a highly efficient, multi-channel communication tool.
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Higher Education
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Client Overview
Founded in Fayetteville in 1871, the University of Arkansas is both the major land grant university and official state university of Arkansas. The university has over 18,000 students and offers nearly 200 undergraduate, doctoral, and other graduate degree programs through eight different colleges. The campus includes 130 buildings on 345 acres that overlook Arkansas’ famous Ozark Mountains.
The Department of Health Science, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Dance at the University of Arkansas approached Nexus with the need for a digital signage strategy for their building, which facilitates classroom activities and includes the main student fitness center on campus. The department administrators realized the value of implementing a digital signage network and, consequently, Nexus delivered a customized digital signage solution specifically for the Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) building that included a total of three interactive digital signs installed in various highly trafficked areas.
The department administration can more effectively communicate targeted messages, such as mission statements, university and department announcements, fitness center rules, and proper use of fitness center equipment. Through such messaging, they are able to promote their department to the large number of students who utilize the fitness center. By interacting with the monitors, students and visitors can more easily locate faculty and staff who instruct class or fitness programs in the building by utilizing the 3D interior wayfinding application. They can also locate buildings, faculty and staff elsewhere on the university grounds through the use of the 2D exterior wayfinding application of the entire campus.
By simply logging on to the Nexus Portal-the web-based content management tool-network administrators are able to update, change, distribute, and manage all of the media and content on each digital sign individually.
Future plans include incorporating more digital signs to the HPER building and to other buildings throughout the university to create a campus-wide digital signage network.
Project Scope
Nexus installed three interactive digital signs in the university’s Healthcare, Physical Education and Recreation building. The building facilitates classroom activities and is the main student fitness center on campus.
Features and Functions:
- Cycle through graphics of the facility and university while the application is in “passive” and “active” mode.
- Directory with integrated 3D interior wayfinding
- Integrate with legacy scheduling software to show students and faculty when rooms or workout facilities are reserved or are available for use
- Cable TV
- Showcase Fitness Center management
- Communicate Fitness Center mission statement, facility rules and hours of operation
- Show students how to properly use exercise machines
- 2D wayfinding of the entire university campus
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Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus — Coslett Café Cambridge, UK |
Anglia Ruskin University Teaches How Video Walls Should Be Done Using Nexus Video Wall Technology
Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus leads the way with an addition to its existing information network in the form of an iconic ‘wall of light’ for their newly refurbished Coslett Café.
The Client
Spanning across four key locations: Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and Fulbourn, Anglia Ruskin University is one of the UK’s leading educational institutes. Since being awarded university status in 1992 the student population has rocketed to more than 20,000 and are regarded as one of the largest universities in the country
and second in part-time higher education only to the Open University.
Overview
- A single Nexus Video Wall Player is used to drive the entire array of 12 screens.
- The NEC 4020 40” LCD screens were chosen for their world class display quality and ultra-thin 16mm bezels.
- The screens were arranged in a 12×1 strip configuration and uniquely mounted in portrait orientation to seamlessly blend in with the overall interior design space as an architectural feature.
Living the Campus Life
Student life can be difficult as it is but with forward thinking and dynamic faculty ensuring that communications are optimal certainly helps to alleviate the stresses and strains of becoming one of country’s future movers and shakers. The defining message delivered to Nexus from the outset was that this campus network was far reaching, all encompassing and relevant to everyone associated with the university. This was about informing, educating, delivery and convenience. Such key points that are reflected in display location, on-screen clarity, delivery method and its multi-channel reach. overall system-wide network for content management and display.
Sign of the Times
The crown jewel of the university’s network is the unique video wall installation in the newly refurbished Coslett Café on the Cambridge campus. Situated in the heart of the International Business School the flourishing moguls of the future are never far away from the latest breaking news from around the world through a selection of live broadcasts from some of the world’s leading media networks: BBC, Bloomberg, China Business and Aljazeera. This centrepiece was created using a total of 12 LCD screens arranged in a 12×1 strip configuration and uniquely mounted in portrait orientation. To help make the vision a reality, Nexus provided the knowledge and expertise in innovative content experiences and worked alongside Anglia Ruskin’s dynamic media production team to plan and execute the delivery of the final video wall solution. Nexus recommended the world class NEC 4020 40” LCD screens as the final display panels of choice and were chosen for their high quality display output and ultra thin 16mm bezels.
The Nexus Experience
Continuously pushing boundaries and innovating content experiences, Nexus is able to drive and seamlessly control the entire 12-screen video wall using a single PC with the Nexus Video Wall. Content for the video wall is designed, managed and delivered through the network using AppSpace. This single PC is able to drive a single large logical canvas spanning across and fully utilizing all screens. Full HD content can be placed across the entire logical canvas or it can be displayed and cloned on as many of the screens in as many different configurations as possible.
The highest multiple video supported resolution has been achieved via collaborative technologies of a single platform, and this technology has been designed to support bespoke video wall configurations of greater and varied dimensions.
Key Solution Features
- The Nexus Video Wall treats the entire visual area as one large logical canvas so that any piece of content can span across any number of screens for truly flexible visual layouts with full HD capabilities.
- Content for the video wall is designed, managed and delivered through the network using AppSpace.
- A total video canvas resolution of 7200 x 960 pixels is achieved throughout all screens.
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