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TAKING A SHOT
Western Carolina University Cullowhee, N.C.
Easier and More Comfortable
Simplifying Operation
and Maintenance
Surrounded by the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains,
Western Carolina University (WCU) is well known for its
education experience. Its lean AV technical support team is
responsible for its 379 AV-equipped spaces and just under
2,000 networked AV devices. With a small team to design,
install and maintain such a large equipment pool, WCU
looked to standardize its AV system and chose Extron.
The standardization has yielded tangible, money-saving
benefits for WCU, including seamless designs and improved
interoperability. WCU's state-of-the-art, $110.5 million
Apodaca Science Building, dedicated in 2021, continues the
institution's standardization on Extron technology.
The AV system in most of WCU's 110 standard classrooms
centers on an IN1608 xi Scaling Presentation Switcher. With
eight inputs supporting a variety of video and audio signals,
an integrated control processor and an integrated audio
amplifier, this switcher provides the flexibility to fulfill most
classroom AV needs.
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Having the same AV system configuration in every classroom
makes users more comfortable, as they need to learn only
one AV user interface. Also, AV maintenance technicians
become very familiar with setting up and troubleshooting the
standardized system. Thus, they can save considerable time.
WCU's AV team notes their good fortune in having the
IN1608 xi in every classroom when the pandemic forced a
pivot to remote learning. With extensive audio-switching and
mic-ducking capabilities, the IN1608 xi in each classroom
provided the instructor microphone audio to the lectern PC.
The team also purchased and connected document
cameras to the USB port of the lectern PC in each classroom.
These functioned well as classroom cameras to capture
images of the instructor and the whiteboard at the front of
the classroom, creating a quick, elegant and simple - yet
functional - lecture-capture system.
The cameras further allowed storage and streaming
of classroom sessions via Panopto or Zoom applications
installed on the house PCs.
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