Facility
The Utah Traffic Lab's Video Conference Room is now complete!
The room includes:
- Two 50” plasma screens with video overhead
- TV with camera for use with whiteboard
- SMART Board
- Table equipped with microphones for participants
- Document camera
- Touch screen control panel for the instructor
This state of the art system is used by professionals, academics, and students. Graduate students use the room to view and participate in lectures offered at various universities around the country. Dr. Peter Martin is now able to offer courses to various remote sites.
This type of equipment works best within a large network of similar systems. With that in mind, we would like to offer some tips and ideas to DOTs, universities, or any other institution that might potentially participate in an advanced conferencing system:
- Make sure you work with a good system integrator.
- Take baby steps, i.e. try one advance at a time and modify as you proceed.
- Articulate your ideas in a written document with drawings.
- Remember that video conferencing is driven by corporate needs, not academic needs.
- Give yourself plenty of time to test.
- Eliminate IR remotes with a single touch screen panel (expensive, but worth it).