EDUCATION AMX INSPIRES AT LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
London South Bank University now offers highly improved teaching and social spaces
One of London’s largest and oldest universities, London
time digital signage. The brief to AMX was exacting; to
South Bank University (LSBU) has been providing students
deliver a solution that would help LSBU meet their digital
with relevant, accredited and professionally recognised
signage needs whilst successfully overcoming the content
education since 1892. Although the university may have
challenges posed by this large, multi-site deployment with
its roots in the past, its sights are set very much on the future
its multiple faculties and multiple content contributors. “We
and over the past five years, more than £50m has been
needed a signage solution that allowed us to deliver the
invested in its now state-of-the-art facilities which feature an
flexibility demanded by our four individual faculties, whilst
inspired digital signage solution from leading provider, AMX.
maintaining the consistency of messaging required by our Vice Chancellor.” Explains Gavin Warnock, Media Services
Located near the South Bank of the River Thames from which
Team Leader ICT Department, LSBU.
it takes its name, LSBU has grown substantially over the last decade, both in terms of its evolving educational offering
Enhancing internal and external communications strategy
but also its facilities. Since 2005, the university has embarked
across the various sites of this multi-faculty university,
on an exciting estates development programme which has
AMX’s Inspired Signage solution for LSBU incorporates
allowed it to not only regenerate its immediate surroundings,
twenty-five IS200 players, located throughout the main
but also to offer highly improved teaching and social spaces.
campus, as well as at the satellite Harold Wood campus.
This improvement is most tangible on Keyworth Street, the
By making the creation and management of digital
university’s main thoroughfare and the home to both the
messages simple, the Inspired Signage system has enabled
Keyworth Centre and the K2 building. Providing a cutting-
the university’s individual faculties to manage their own
edge and dynamic, street-facing presence for the university,
content, whilst ensuring consistency throughout. AMX’s
these impressive buildings have played an important part in
exclusive Composer 4 software delivers a permissions-
helping LSBU achieve its aim of a becoming a ‘university of
based workflow management tool that facilitates this
the future’. But, if these impressive facilities were to fulfill
approval process for the created content, giving the
their state-of-the-art potential, then the university knew that
university’s communications and marketing teams over-
a dynamic and interactive digital signage system was
arching control over the system deployment.
essential. Enter AMX, and a digital signage solution designed to enhance the vibrancy and interactivity of LSBU’s
In addition to the content created in-house, the solution
new learning spaces with the delivery of eye-catching, real-
also allows LSBU to incorporate an external weather feed
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We needed a signage solution that allowed us to deliver the flexibility demanded by our four individual faculties, whilst maintaining the consistency of messaging required by our Vice Chancellor. Explains Gavin Warnock, Media Services Team Leader ICT Department, LSBU. The University’s communications and marketing teams have over-arching control over system deployment
and a news feed from the BBC; ensuring a flow of varied, reactive and audience-appropriate messaging which is changed on screen in real time. Implicit in this versatile and scalable system is also a wealth of capability and possibility. There are plans within the deployments future to unlock the system’s full interactive potential by integrating a VIP playlist with RFID technology; allowing the university to deliver relevant and timely messages, triggered by the movements of the VIPs who regularly tour the university. AMX technology makes this, and much more, possible. And, it’s not just in the signage that AMX makes its mark. Within one hundred of the LSBU classrooms, AMX’s Novara CP3000 series eight-button control pads deliver an
AMX’s Novara CP3000 control pads deliver an easy to use interface
easy-to-use user interface and an unprecedented level of control when used in conjunction with AMX’s Resource Management Suite software. This intuitive solution gives users of LSBU’s classrooms the ability to easily control equipment and devices, whilst allowing facilities staff to gain an invaluable insight into Lamp Hours, Filter Times, Temperature, Power Status and Selected Source for monitoring, remote control, preventative maintenance and reporting. AMX technology is also featuring prominently in the university’s latest project; a state-of-the-art, AMX-driven lecture theatre in the Keyworth Centre. On completion, a 7” Modero podium-mounted touchpanel will afford fingertip control of all of the technology and audio-visual presentation devices in this impressive facility. With its state-of-the-art facilities, high-tech specification and inspired digital signage solution, London South Bank
A 7” Modero podium-mounted touchpanel affords fingertip control of audio-visual presentation devices
University appears to have achieved its goal of becoming the ‘university of the future’, today.
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LSBU now boasts state-of-the-art facilities, a high-tech specification and an inspired digital signage solution
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HIGHLIGHT
One of London’s largest and oldest universities, London
Enhancing internal and external communications strategy
South Bank University (LSBU) has been providing students
across the various sites of this multi-faculty university,
with relevant, accredited and professionally recognised
AMX’s Inspired Signage solution for LSBU incorporates
education since 1892. Although the university may have its
twenty-five IS200 players, located throughout the main
roots in the past, its sights are set very much on the future and
campus, as well as at the satellite Harold Wood campus.
over the past five years, more than £50m has been invested
By making the creation and management of digital
in its now state-of-the-art facilities which feature an inspired
messages simple, the Inspired Signage system has enabled
digital signage solution from leading provider, AMX.
the university’s individual faculties to manage their own content, whilst ensuring consistency throughout.
LOCATION London, UK
We’d had other systems in the past, but none of them had given us both the control and flexibility we needed from a corporate and faculty perspective. Inspired Signage by AMX gives us an unprecedented level of management capability, in a way that is simply not possible with other digital signage solutions.” Gavin Warnock, Media Services Team Leader ICT Department, LSBU
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