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Applied Electronics designed, supplied and installed audio visual systems in 4 Corporate Meeting Rooms, Committee Room, Council Chamber, and Councillor’s Lounge in the City of Guelph’s Civic Centre. Three Corporate Meeting Rooms are each equipped with a 100” (diagonal) Da-lite manual front projection screen while one meeting room has a 145” (diagonal) Da-lite manual front projection screen instead, a Mitsubishi XD2000U projector and an Extron CIA111 wall-plated interface control system.

A brand new multi-purpose A/V system was built into the new Committee Room, incorporating the voting/microphone system from the existing council chamber. This room has a Panasonic PTD5700UL DLP projector with a Da-lite 100” (diagonal) motorized screen. The lectern is fully detachable and houses a high resolution document camera, laptop input and goose neck microphone. Seven delegate positions are each equipped with microphone/voting stations, a full voting display system and a fixed computer for running presentations. The system also has a DVD/VCR player, digital audio recorder, wireless microphones and is fully controlled by the Crestron control system and Crestron TPS6LB touch panel.

The new Council Chamber houses council members, the Mayor, 2 CAO seats, two Clerk positions , a presenter’s lectern and table, 8 staff seats, 4 press desk seats, and a 154-seat public gallery. The A/V system for the Council Chamber incorporates a Christie Digital DS+655 DLP projector, a Da-lite 9 ft. x 12 ft. motorized screen, a ceiling-mounted document camera, and a table top document camera. In the lectern that can swivel 180 degrees to address the council or the gallery is a display monitor, a delegate microphone station and a Crestron control panel, speakers, a DVD/VCR unit to run presentations, and projection screens. Twenty-five DIS microphone/voting stations are fully integrated with the AV system, allowing display of the voting tabulations, request to speak and agenda items to be displayed. There are 3 wireless microphones and a complete hearing assistance system available. The clerk’s position also has a 10” Crestron touchpanel on a swing arm that controls the lighting, microphone system, voting system, a separate DVD/VCR player, laptop computer input, and the Rogers cable TV feed. A Crestron TPS15B 15” swivel touchpanel, base-mounted on the press desk for a remote system operator to assist clerks, allows full video preview capability and control. The adjacent Councillor’s Lounge is equipped with a complete A/V system and displays proceedings from the council chamber. Rogers also has 6 cameras feeding through the AV system to broadcast the proceedings to the public while allowing the images to be viewed on the AV system. This installation was completed May 2009.