The University of Insubria has deployed Kramer’s audio-visual solution in over 40 educational spaces.
Kramer describes itself as the “leading audio-visual experience company”. It provides solutions from AVSM to advanced cloud-based communication, collaboration, and control solutions.
User numbers on the university’s previous system rocketed from 12 simultaneous connections to more than 250, which was not able to handle the extra users brought about by the pandemic.
Following funding from the Lombardy Regional Council, the university chose Adicom Group and Kramer to support its students in the classroom and at home.
Luca Mondini, Front and Back Office Service and User Support at the University of Insubria, said: “Our critical points were the lack of integration between new technologies and existing platforms.
“For example, Teams made it difficult for remote learners to interact transparently. It was difficult for the teacher and students to hear each other mutually and intelligibly.
“But as importantly, to ensure adoption, ease of use was key, so the technology wouldn’t become a burden on the teacher.”
“We connected all equipment with their respective management systems to dedicated VLANs, then built a centralized server where we inputted Kramer solutions for programming the matrices and keypads so that everything now works exactly as it was supposed to, and I can control everything from one place.”
Kramer’s AV solution was chosen to enable hybrid learning in 25 classrooms, five lecture halls, and ten mobile studios.
The central system to Kramer’s solution for the university is the Kramer VS 62DT matrix switch, which has been added to all classrooms.
It offers six HDMI inputs that can be routed to HDBaseT or HDMI output, supporting long-reach video and audio transmissions.
Kramer TP-583T and TP-583R 4K HDR were installed to provide the HDBaseT transmission for all the projectors.
