SOLUTIONS: GRUPPO CREDITO VALTELLINESE, MILAN ITALY
A meeting of minds
Up to six speakers can be hosted hosted on the podium communicating via a DIS Digital Discussion System
combining control room. This houses a Crestron 16 x 16 DigitalMedia matrix switcher, with nine fibre input cards, two output kits and a CP3 control processor. After passing through
A financial group continues to invest in AV to bring staff together, with impressive results, writes Mike Clark
ITALY’S GRUPPO Credito Valtellinese (Creval) consists of three local banks, three companies operating in specialised areas of finance, two insurance companies and three production companies. Parent company Credito Valtellinese, founded in Sondrio in 1908 and the first Italian bank to be awarded quality certification for its loan application, issue and management process, currently has 370 branches. Following its policy for quality based on innovative technological solutions, the group’s Via Feltre premises in Milan, Italy’s finance capital, recently underwent a high-profile expansion. The new facility includes a boardroom, meeting rooms and a professional training centre featuring cutting-edge AV and videoconferencing technology, designed and installed by video communication specialists Gecom. As well as a Full HD videoconferencing system, the set-up includes an impressive Crestron DigitalMedia system for digital AV and control signal management and distribution, and Crestron’s Fusion enterprise management platform, both
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installed for the first time by Gecom on this prestige application.
Gecom technical manager
Mirko Ciarlo followed the project from the preliminary stages, working with the client to establish the operational deployment of each room, the design of the AV/control solutions, and the execution of the work of planning the various areas in such a way as to enable the systems to be installed in a satisfactory manner from both a technical and aesthetic point of view. He explains: “We have
worked with Creval since 2010. Previous projects include the supply of a centralised video communications infrastructure (multiconference unit, gatekeeper, manager, etc), and specialised support for the complete integration of the videoconferencing system with other facilities already in use by the client, such as Cisco CUCM and Microsoft OCS.”
After its solution had been compared with those of three competitors, Gecom was appointed as contractor and chose the technology installed along with clients, according to their specific
requirements. Gecom worked directly with Claudio Miotti, who was in charge of the Creval department, as well as with Enrico Scarafoni, Sacha Petix and Cristian Paieri.
PLANNING AHEAD Ciarlo continues: “Apart from ensuring the technology installed had the lowest possible visual impact, to satisfy the architects’ brief, the main technical difficulty was that we were obliged to design the fibre infrastructure used to transport the contents combining the multimedia environments a year before the definitive design was completed. This meant forecasting everything that would eventually be realised in order to calculate how extensive the cabling had to be to connect the various rooms and ensure perfect multimedia data transport.” Preliminary work began in
February 2012; installation work was carried out by Gecom technicians and the rooms tested and handed over at the beginning of this year. All the rooms can exchange
an AV flow (1 TX and 1 RX for all of them, except the auditorium, with two TX and two RX flows), via a
the ground floor reception area, which features six wall-mounted Samsung 46in monitors, there are four small meeting rooms, a 200-seat auditorium also able to host large videoconference link-ups for key events such as shareholder meetings, and an equipment room containing all the building’s centralised control hardware. This auditorium features a videowall formed by nine Samsung UD55C LED displays; video content can also be viewed on four stand- mounted Samsung 55in monitors which can be moved around the room as required. Sound reinforcement is courtesy of six Tannoy VLS 30 array speakers and a pair of VX 15Q compact enclosures, powered by two MC2 amplifiers (a T1000 and a T2000). Six speakers hosted on the podium communicate via a DIS Digital Discussion System, while Audio-Technica handheld wireless mics are available for audience participation.
The first floor hosts [INSTALLED] CONTROL
All Crestron CP3 control systems 8 x 8 and 16 x 16 digital media matrices
DM-TX-201-C digital media transmitters
DM-RMC-100-C room solution boxes
TSW-1050-W-S 10in touchpanels
Capture-HD AV HD recorders
SW-Fusion+RV supervision and control software
AUDIO Biamp Nexia VC digital audio processors
Biamp Nexia PM presentation mixer
Apart Audiocontrol mixers Apart Champ 2, PA240P amplifiers
MC2 T1000/T2000 amplifiers
Tannoy Di5 DC, CVS4, VLS30W, VX15QW speakers
two 25-seat rooms with videoconferencing and projection facilities (NEC UM330W units), while two other adjacent almost identical training rooms with 25 workstations can either host separate events or (with the soundproofed dividing wall removed) be used as a single large room (sharing the audio/video/control facilities). On the second floor, another pair of modular rooms (used for various functions, such as trade union meetings) offers the same possibilities. Here too videoconferencing facilities are installed and the rooms are almost identical to the training rooms, with the exception of the latter’s MimioTeach interactive whiteboards, MimioCapture for recording whiteboard notes and graphics on a PC and wireless MimioPads to control the whiteboards from anywhere in the classroom. Audio in each of the
six rooms comprises four Tannoy ultra-compact Di 5DC speakers, an Apart Champ 2 amplifier, Apart Audiocontrol 12.8 digital mixer, Audio-Technica lavalier and handheld wireless microphones and Biamp Nexia VC for conference audio processing.
Audio-Technica ATW-3141, ATW-3110BDP3 wireless mics
DIS CU6105 digital conference system
VIDEO Radvision XT1200 codecs Sony EVI-H100VW PTZ cameras
NEC UM330W projectors Arthur Holm AH22D2 retractable monitors
Samsung HG22EA470 22in TVs, MD55C LED PRO monitors, UD46C 46in videowall panels
Samsung DE 46C 46in monitors, 32C monitors, UD55C 55in videowall panels, MD55C 55in monitors
MimioCapture interactive whiteboard module
MimioPad wireless tablet
MimioTeach interactive system
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