AMX Education Case Study_University of Vienna_AT

EDUCATION AMX MAKES THE CAMPUS OF THE FUTURE A REALITY, TODAY

Thanks to innovative AMX technology, installation, management and control of AV devices is greatly simplified.

Designed by a team of internationally renowned architects, the futuristic campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business sets a new standard for university construction. Campus WU, as it is known, is made up of six striking and distinctive buildings, each designed by a different architect in their own uncompromising style. The campus is dominated by the imposing Library & Learning Center (LC), designed by the award-winning architect Zaha Hadid, which rises as a polygonal block from its heart and stands in testimony to the central importance of research and teaching at WU. The LC is surrounded by the five other building complexes which, as different as they may look, are all united by a common infrastructure.

Yes, central to the heart of this unprecedented project is a unifying AMX backbone that is helping this forwardthinking university realise its economical, ecological and social sustainability ambitions by maximising energy efficiency, facilitating productivity and collaboration, and delivering simplified management control.

architectural diversity, it operates in an integrated manner and to maximum operational efficiency and productivity.

Providing IT-like remote management capabilities for the AV assets and other building functions throughout the campus, the central AMX system delivers the flexibility that the university wants, with all the standardisation and technological rigidity that it needs. After all, when you have over 300 rooms all equipped with multimedia technology including 54 seminar rooms, 21 lecture halls, a main 650-seat auditorium and several conference and celebration halls, the importance of having a centralised, over-arching control and monitoring system can’t be over emphasised!

“We were looking to partner with one manufacturer who could offer a complete end-to-end solution.” Explains Stefan Jester, WU Wien IT-SERVICES. “Put simply, AMX is the only company that could meet this requirement.

From the modular desktop panels with their integrated control, to its resource management and room booking system, RMS Enterprise; AMX was perfectly positioned to meet the system requirements, and all in a very scalable and cost effective way.”

With nearly 23,000 students from Austria and abroad, WU is one of the largest educational institution for business and economics, business law, and social sciences in Europe. More than just a place for academic research and teaching, Campus WU has been designed to create a new and inherently flexible space for social, cultural, and political life. But, whilst the campus may have been built for flexibility of use, it has certainly been standardised in terms of construction; ensuring that, for all its A U T O M AT E

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Designed and installed by leading systems integrator PKE Electronics AG, this AMX-centric solution scales from the smallest collaboration room to the largest lecture hall, whilst technologically accommodating everything in between. In the WU’s smaller rooms, elegant HydraPort |

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From the modular desktop panels with their integrated control, to its resource management and room booking system, RMS Enterprise; AMX was perfectly positioned to meet our system requirements, and all in a very scalable and cost effective way. units with integrated Metreau keypads provide the primary control interface; delivering a cost effective control solution for AV devices and other electronic equipment, with all the flexibility of a modular approach.

These sleek, flush-mounted units are used in conjunction with a NI-700 NetLinx controller to meet the control and connectivity needs of these more informal spaces.

The medium and large lecture halls boast Enova DVX Allin-One Presentation Switchers. An all-in-one controller, AV switcher, scaler, analogue to digital signal converter, twisted pair transmitter and amplifier with built-in professional grade audio processing, the Enova DVX negates the need for numerous individual components and the integration challenges that accompany them. By integrating all of the typical standalone devices into a single box and eliminating the dozens of interconnections between multiple boxes, installation, management and control is greatly simplified, energy efficiency optimised, and standardisation becomes a technological reality.

Additionally, exclusive AMX features such as InstaGate Pro technology eliminates HDCP key constraints and switching delays for trouble-free video distribution, whilst SmartScale ensures the best resolution across all of Campus WU’s connected displays. HydraPort units with integrated keypads provide an unobtrusive table-top control and connectivity interface for the medium lecture rooms, whilst stunning 10” Modero X Series touch panels provide a premium, multi-touch control solution for the larger areas. An independent network switch in each area ensures that every room can work autonomously, whilst future interconnection of rooms remains a technical possibility thanks to innovative DXLINK technology. The ability to further extend the system with Enova DGX units provides an additional upgrade path for the future.

The main 650 seat auditorium is a showcase for technology-enabled learning.

Fingertip control of automation elements is afforded by this innovative system.

Central to the management of Campus WU’s vast array of AV equipment is AMX’s award-winning Resource Management Suite (RMS).

This innovative software solution effectively networks all of the AMX-driven multimedia and facility operation equipment across the entire campus, into one time efficient and cost effective solution. Real-time monitoring and problem notifications allow proactive and remote maintenance, whilst detailed reporting gives Stefan Jester and his team an unrivalled understanding of equipment, resource and energy usage, right down to device level, for optimum operating efficiency.

So, with 300 rooms boasting a total of 80 NI-700 controllers, 80 DVX-2150s, 14 DVX-3150s, no fewer than 110 HydraPorts, 10 wall-mounted touch panels, 4 panoramic touch panels and 1 highly efficient central RMS system – it all adds up to a standout AMX project at Campus WU. A U T O M AT E

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10” Modero X Series touch panels provide a premium interface for the high-spec lecture rooms.

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The Library & Learning Center stands in testimony to the central importance of research and teaching at WU.

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Designed by a team of internationally renowned architects, the campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business sets a new standard for university construction. Campus WU, as it is known, is made up of six striking and distinctive buildings, each designed by a different architect in their own uncompromising style. But, as different as they as they may look, the buildings are all united by a common infrastructure. Yes, central to the heart of this unprecedented project is a unifying AMX backbone that is helping this forward-thinking university realise its economical, ecological and social sustainability ambitions by maximising energy efficiency, facilitating productivity and collaboration, and delivering simplified management control.

Designed to create a new and inherently flexible space for social, cultural, and political life, Campus WU may have been built for flexibility of use, but it has certainly been standardised in terms of construction. Innovative AMX technology ensures that, for all its architectural diversity, the campus operates in an integrated manner and to maximum operational efficiency and productivity. Providing IT-like remote management capabilities for the AV assets and other building functions throughout the campus, the central AMX system delivers the flexibility that the university wants, with all the standardisation and technological rigidity that it needs.

LOCATION Vienna, Austria

We were looking to partner with one manufacturer who could offer a complete end-to-end solution. Explains Stefan Jester, WU Wien IT-SERVICES. Put simply, AMX is the only company that could meet this requirement.

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