PAHO is the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Americas. At its Washington, DC headquarters, health officials from the 44 countries and territories that take part in PAHO meet to discuss public health policy, with interpretation and live broadcasts carrying the discussion beyond the meeting room.
The brief
The project renewed PAHO’s principal meeting spaces: Room A, a circular UN-style chamber; Rooms B and C; and reconfigurable Room 1017. Across Rooms A, B and C, meetings can generate up to 16 simultaneous live streams, with English, Spanish, French and Portuguese interpretation plus floor audio. Sessions run for eight to ten hours, making camera automation and coordinated video production central to the design.
Televic interpretation and automatic camera positioning
Televic conference systems combine delegate microphones, interpreter consoles and infrared language distribution. Pressing a delegate unit’s push-to-talk button automatically moves the camera to that speaker’s position. Room 1017 uses a Televic wireless conference system so its movable furniture can be arranged for different meetings.
Analog Way production for NanoLumens LED walls
Analog Way Aquilon C and C+ processors with an RC400T controller feed the NanoLumens direct view LED walls. The walls in one of PAHO’s conference rooms include curved displays. Analog Way coordinates video from the meeting floor with the content shown to delegates.
Crestron DM NVX across the meeting rooms
Crestron DM NVX carries video between sources and displays across the conference installation. Together, Televic, DM NVX and Analog Way automate production so a small team can run the building’s meetings. Panasonic PTZ cameras provide room coverage, while Cisco Webex conferencing connects remote participants.
The result
PAHO can hold simultaneous multilingual meetings while cameras follow the active speaker automatically and a small crew manages the broadcasts. The installation ran through 2023 and early 2024, following the main conference room’s inauguration during the September 2023 Directing Council meeting. ITI continues to staff every PAHO event today.
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Sector
- International public health
- ITI scope
- Systems integration and installation; continuing event staffing
- Design
- Pershing Technologies
- Systems
- Conference and interpretation, automated production, direct view LED, AV-over-IP, videoconferencing
- Systems integration
- ITI Systems
- AV consulting & design
- Pershing Technologies
Systems installed
- Conference positions
- Televic system with 164 uniCOS T/MM10 multimedia delegate units, 300 Confidea F-CS listening stations, 162 Plixus NP e-ink nameplates and 200 D-Mic 40 gooseneck microphones.
- Interpretation and distribution
- 26 Televic Lingua ID-MM interpreter consoles, 30 Lingua infrared radiators and 196 Lingua R12 infrared receivers.
- Conference platform
- Five Televic Plixus MME engines with CoCon discussion, interpretation, audio-routing, video-routing and signage software.
- Room 1017 wireless conference system
- 32 Televic Confidea Flex G4 wireless units in the reconfigurable tenth-floor meeting room.
- Direct view LED
- Four NanoLumens walls in one conference room, including curved walls: a 23.6 by 6.6-foot front wall, a 19.7 by 5.5-foot rear wall and two 31.5 by 4.4-foot ribbon walls. A 15.8 by 4.5-foot NanoLumens Engage wall serves the atrium. The installation uses 1.87 mm and 1.25 mm pixel pitches, NovaStar LED processing and three Analog Way Aquilon video wall processors.
- Analog Way production
- Two Analog Way Aquilon C processors, one Aquilon C+ processor and an RC400T controller, feeding the NanoLumens walls; Analog Way Zen200 with Dante card.
- AV-over-IP and network
- 84 Crestron DM-NVX-360 endpoints and 209 DM-NVX-360C cards in 28 DMF-CI-8 chassis; supplied network equipment: a Cisco Catalyst 9410R chassis switch, two Catalyst 9500 40G switches and six Catalyst 9300 switches.
- Cameras
- 16 Panasonic AW-UE100 4K NDI PTZ cameras with 24x optical zoom and seven Panasonic AW-UE150 4K PTZ cameras with 20x optical zoom, with four AW-RP60 controllers.
- Video conversion and conferencing
- 20 BirdDog 4K HDMI and four BirdDog 4K Quad NDI encoder/decoders, five Cisco Webex Codec Pro units and an AJA KUMO 3232-12G SDI router.
- Audio processing, recording and amplification
- Five Q-SYS Core 110f processors with Dante, Yamaha CL1 digital mixing console, three Tascam DA-6400 64-channel recorders and four LEA Connect 168D eight-channel amplifiers.
- Wireless microphones and intercom
- Nine Shure ULXD4Q quad receivers with 18 handheld and 18 bodypack transmitters; Riedel Bolero wireless intercom with 12 beltpacks.
- Commercial displays and monitors
- Nine Samsung 98-inch QM98T, nine 65-inch QM65B, six 50-inch QE50T and eight 43-inch QM43B displays, plus 22 NEC EA271U 27-inch 4K monitors.
- Room control
- Four Crestron CP4 processors and 41 Crestron touch screens.
- Automated production operation
- Televic push-to-talk camera positioning, Crestron DM NVX and Analog Way Aquilon allow two or three operators to run the building’s meeting production. Scope includes four principal meeting spaces: Room A, Rooms B and C, and Room 1017 on the tenth floor.