Video: UF’s State-of-the-Art Small Animal Hospital
The University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine opened a new small animal teaching hospital in 2010 and added a lecture hall last year. Both facilities run on an A/V infrastructure that includes extensive lecture capture and video conferencing capabilities.
We tour the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine new small animal hospital.
The gleaming, state-of-the-art facility houses 22 exam rooms and six medical specialty services with all the first-world-medicinal capabilities typically reserved for big city hospitals. It also has a $1.3 million A/V system with lecture capture and videoconferencing capabilities that make it a nexus of veterinary medicine information sharing.
Xerox Audio Visual Solutions built the UF small animal hospital’s A/V systems, and here they break down the major components of this install:
The high definition cameras in the hospital are Sony EVI-HD1’s.
The flat panels used around the facility are from Infocus, ranging in size from 42” up to 65”.
The medical image recorders are Sony ImageCore HD’s.
The backbone of the system has digital signals running over Volante VMT105/VRR104 HD transmitters/receivers.
There is also a high res computer signal carried over Magenta Research Multiview transmitters/receivers and an HD/SDI signal sent over coax.
All these signals run through their respective 36x36 AMX Autopatch switchers to route signals from any room to any combination of rooms or to video conferencing units to send outside the hospital.
Audio is handled separately by a three Biamp Audia digital processing units.
Completed in 2010, the hospital was joined last summer by a 160-seat auditorium that is fully hooked into the hospital’s A/V system. The auditorium is ADA compliant, with removable chairs, available hearing-impaired devices and large monitors for viewing lecture content from the back of the room.
It also has ceiling-mounted microphones for videoconferencing that are so powerful they had to be toned down because during videoconferences the noises from the audience were just as clear as the lecturer’s voice.
Confidence monitors in the front of the classroom allow the presenter to preview content before displaying it through a picture-in-picture presentation.
“It’s a completely interactive space,” said David John, Senior Electronic Technician at UF. “We really feel like we got a really versatile room to be able to do any type of teaching that we wanted to do.”
During last month’s AMX Enovation Tour, TechDecisions took a tour of the new medical facility, and the even newer lecture hall. To prevent contamination we were kept ouf of the most sensitive medical spaces, but check out the video to see the rest of the facility, and read the original story about the medical facility to get the lowdown on all the tech specs.
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