I-Shou University gets customised BXB solution
Published: ASIA
TAIWAN: The I-Shou University (ISU) in Taiwan recently contracted Mr Tsia and his team from Chuan Ying Co Ltd to upgrade its conferencing equipment for its International Congress Hall (ICH). Following several meetings with the ISU committee, Mr Tsai approached local manufacturer BXB to design customised units for this project.
Having been established in 1986, Kaohsiung Polytechnic Institute (KPI) changed its name in 1997 to I-Shou University in honour of its founder chairman I-Shou Lin of the E United Group. Today the eight colleges on campus accommodate 16,000 students in international academic studies, ranging from the arts to the sciences.
Located on the 10th floor of the Administrative Building, the ICH hosts a multitude of internal and external academic seminars, forums and academic exchanges. The school requested that the new system should fit into the same mounts as the original flush mounted conferencing units.
For its bespoke needs, BXB produced a combined conferencing and multi-lingual translation system that will now allow conference participants to listen to the subject matter being debated. In addition to system functionality, BXB paid great attention both to the appearance of the units and its durability. As such, Chuan Ying adopted a BXB customised aluminium alloy panel for combining the conference and translating units, which subsequently mount into the tables.
All 136 seats are now furnished with TS-5010 conferencing and translation systems, which are managed via the FCS-3050 control unit in an adjacent room by the facility manager. A total of 71 FCS-3026 flush mounted microphones cater for shared delegate response, whilst five FCS-3025 chairman microphones have been installed into the speaker positions on stage.
Various conference modes can be adopted, whilst microphone and connection status’ can be monitored via LCDs on the main FCS-3050 unit. Six TS-5020 translation consoles offer simultaneous translation for up to six different languages. The translation system has been equipped with multi-channel transmission, which clearly transmits conference content to the interpreters before being presented to the participants.
If the rate of speech is rapid, a notification button can be pressed alerting the speakers to slow down. Both systems adopt advanced Cat-5e cables, which should simplify future maintenance. ‘The system we employed is not only very stable, but it was also easy to install,’ commented Mr Tsia.