The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law has completed deployment of state-of-the-art digital signage technology aimed at decreasing its carbon footprint and enhancing the aesthetics of its campus environment. Using a software product called CODA - Content Delivery Architecture - developed by Cambridge England-based Camvine, the School is reducing its environmental impact through the installation of electronic digital signage displays that minimize the need for hundreds of flyers, postings, and announcements generated by student groups and the School's administration.
"The CODA architecture gives us a powerful and cost effective way to provide our students with high quality service in an environmentally conscious manner," said Robert Congdon, director of Information Technology for UDM Law. "Cleaning up our environment and reducing the amount of paper used is a major focus of this project. Our students and the School's leadership have embraced this technology, and I'm constantly getting suggestions and ideas for future use. One exciting potential is to use this technology to link together three separate University campuses in Detroit, as well as campuses in Canada and Mexico, to improve communication and sense of belonging," Congdon said.
Nick Hawatmeh, president of the Student Bar Association, said, "We have over 38 student organizations, and we normally would have flyers littering the entire Law School. With this technology, we're able to put all of our content, such as our daily announcements and the student organization event calendars, on plasma screens centrally located on campus. Not only does it help us get 'with it' and into this new century of technology, but it also helps make the School look much nicer and much cleaner."
Camvine, founded by Internet pioneer Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser, developed the CODA software to blend today's Internet technologies with off-the-shelf hardware to produce a digital signage solution that lets users put information where it's needed, quickly and easily. Dr. Stafford-Fraser is a co-inventor of the webcam and one of the developers of the VNC software now installed on millions of machines worldwide.
"I'm delighted about the Law School's choice of the CODA system," said Dr. Stafford-Fraser. "This is an institution with a solid historical foundation, an innovative approach to education today, and a clear vision for the future. We firmly believe that its adoption of a modern network-based system like CODA will help promote its long-standing credentials, deal with the communications challenges of today, and provide a versatile platform that will equip the School of Law for tomorrow."
Published: Thu, Oct 28, 2010
