Onondaga Beverage

Onondaga Beverage installs state-of-the-are system
Onondaga Beverage Corporation of Syracuse, New York found their growing business in need of a larger and more modern facility. Rather than relocate, they elected to construct a major addition to their existing office and warehouse location. New offices and meeting facilities called for new and progressive technology to be implemented as a new era in business approached. The staff at Francis Audio-Visual responded with a comprehensive design that embodied a state-of-the-art media presentation system.

Terraced seating The new staff training room is terraced with installed seating for staff and/or customers. The task for Francis AV designers was to allow twenty-eight laptop computer users to be seated in the audience and allow a presenter to access and project any of their images easily. The solution was derived by first installing custom plates for PC termination in pop-up units in the desktops. Because of the distance to the control room, line buffers from Extron were installed discretely under the tables for ample signal strength at the head-end. To accommodate the increasing use of wav files with presentations, Francis technicians also included stereo mini jacks in the termination plates. Once the signal reached the head-end, routing of all sources was accomplished with an Auto-Patch 4YDM matrix. The 4YDM handled not only the data and video signals, but also carried all two channel audio tracks for both the data and video feeds.

Seating view A quality projection image was required for the array of PC’s. A Sony VPL-X1000 was selected not only for it’s excellent 1,100 lumen XGA image, but also for it’s impressive reliability record. A Da-Lite Boardroom Electrol provided an excellent surface for the Sony to show off the images from throughout the room. And of course what would a presentation in the new millennium be without sound? TOA’s IP300 stereo power amp was utilized to deliver sound to four Tannoy Arena Monitor speakers installed strategically in the room. Wireless microphones from Shure enable presenters to maneuver around the room as they address the group. Feedback, normally an issue with wireless units, was kept in check by Shure’s DFR11EQ feedback eliminator. If you are unable to attend a presentation at Onondaga Beverage, a simple phone call and Gentner’s GT724 telecom interface gives the caller an opportunity to still address the gathering (a feature appreciated by many apprehensive travelers to the Syracuse area during our snowy winters).

Podium w/Crestron installed With all this impressive technology, surely operating the system must be complex? With the aid of a control system from Crestron and custom programming by Francis Audio-Visual, a simple touch screen was installed in the custom oak podium. Presenters are given control over a majority of functions in the control room, including selecting images from all data and video sources. Included in those updated video sources was a new Elmo EV600AF document camera located in the podium used for viewing many of the beverage products that the company distributes.

After some brief hands-on training from the staff at Francis Audio-Visual, the management at Onondaga Beverage began promptly the next day to utilize their investment. The facility stands as a testimonial to a growing and thriving company here in Syracuse, New York. We’re proud to have been a part of the success of their expansion. If you have the vision… we have the solution. For more information on this or other projects and media system equipment, please contact your local sales rep or Karl Paisley at Francis Audio-Visual.

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