New user access is easy; an administrator simply logs into the admin page and assigns new users to the respective rooms. 

The ease with which this system operates is a source of pride, as our primary goal was to offer a great user experience from day one. Maximising use, value and ROI.

The result is a testament to the planning, design and forethought of what we did for this project to ensure a scalable and flexible system.

In the Passenger Experience Lab, the building’s most iconic location, 
we installed a pair of prominent Renkus Heinz line array column speakers on either side of the LED wall, which provide the programme audio for the space and creates a clear visual feature.

We also designed and installed 18 single monitor Dante line array Renkus Heinz speakers on a truss rail; the speakers were spaced with precision so that the entire lab area had full coverage audio. 

We created numerous presets for user-requested audio configurations, allowing users to set each speaker to play different output audio or enable/disable particular speakers.

As with all AV sources, this too was driven by NVX and utilised the Dante facility offered on the NVX-352, a high-performance AV over IP encoder/decoder supporting 4k 60fps video.

The entire building system uses Crestron Fusion, monitoring and scheduling software that allows support through alerts on Fusion or an on-demand support service. Users who need assistance can press the help button on any control panel menu and request rapid in-room support.

Alongside the flexible, scalable nature of the AV design, we ensured that the system offered sustainable efficiencies. Each area with installed AV was fitted with occupancy sensors, reacting to motion and light levels and linked with the room lighting and timed shutdowns programmed for day’s end. After a period when sensors and control panels have not been activated, lighting and AV systems will shut down automatically. 

Our designed system ensured maximum efficiency over the product's life and green efficiencies that additionally helped towards the BREEAM requirement for the building. Also, GVAV factored in long-term maintenance and redundancies into the design. 

By utilising AVoIP-based solutions, any new or changing equipment will not require new cabling infrastructure. Any additional sources that the client may need for future upgrades to the sharing system will only require an additional NVX, which they can then incorporate into the system themselves or via GVAV.

Our brief was to provide a world-class facility with a state-of-the-art system that is easy to use, with each space designed to suit both current and future requirements.

 Our client sees this project as a great success. It offers them all the facilities needed today and still looks to the future. We are proud to say we have managed to deliver this and much more besides.

The AV systems installed by us have provided capabilities that continue to support this as a world-class campus.

When designing the DARTeC audio visual systems, many factors were vital, from the technical and environmental considerations to the methodology of the system’s operation and the need for intuitive controls.

User experience was the spirit of the project right from the very outset. Controls needed to have clarity, be elegantly organised and be easy to use, particularly given the variable experience levels anticipated within the pool of end users.

The equipment is called upon to carry out an enormous number of complex tasks almost transparently. At the push of a button, ergonomic controls run screens and sound whilst complex environmental scenarios activate. All are integral to the system’s success.

Sophisticated routines automate entire room scenarios, and the advanced equipment has resulted in the buildings’ diverse user group enjoying a fully interactive experience.

The client required the functionality to show diverse content simultaneously in the labs whilst also providing options to cycle content through various timed windowing options.

The level of system complexity was further enhanced in the two key labs (Passenger experience and MRO). The client wanted the additional option to treat these LED and video walls as blank canvas. 

And, as only select users would require this particular level of functionality, enhanced training would be necessary for those users to use this capability. Therefore, we created tiered access levels assignable through the system admin page. This could be performed on any of the touch panels or through the remote access web portal and ensures each user is appropriately assigned the facilities they require. 

Furthermore, if these requirements changed over time, it would simply require reissuing additional systems permissions managed by the Cranfield  AV support team.

The faculty can also easily update live content and information on the screens. 

The awe-inspiring ability to transfer sources to and from any destination allows flexibility they could never have technically achieved before. It’s a truly unique system with levels of flexibility unparalleled within this space.