Customer Success Stories

Gateway Technical College HERO CENTER

GREEN AV BUILDING FOR HEALTH AND FIRE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OCCUPATIONS TRAINING- BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN

OVERVIEW
This unique facility houses state-of-the-art AV technology within a large Command and Operations Control room, a Vehicle Apparatus Bay, a rescue simulation structure, and several multimedia classrooms, fully functioning as a lab building for training and simulation.  With integration completed and unveiled in 2010, the HERO Center provides access to real-life, scenario-based training, disaster simulation and technology-equipped classroom instruction.

BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM
The HERO A/V control system was designed to operate and monitor most of the facility’s environmental features.  The control system will shut off lighting and open and close shades to take advantage of natural light and heat in the cooler seasons.  In the warmer seasons the system will use the window shades to help cool the building and in the future will monitor occupancy in each room adjusting temperature and lighting during extended periods of inactivity.  During long breaks during the holidays and summer, the system will shut down all non-essential equipment.

“Much of the innovation and training success that will happen at the HERO Center is attributed to the technology applications provided by Dascom. Gateway is proud to have a partnership with Dascom for providing AV solutions for world-class first responder training.”  - Bryan Albrecht, President, Gateway Technical College

All display devices will be set to “sleep” mode after a designated period of inactivity drawing very little power.   A manual override of automatic functions is available through touch control panel, and if an override takes place an incident report will be generated and stored for informational purposes.  All features of the control system will be available to pull from the mainframes database.  This will report the environmental impact, cost savings, system usage, component usage, and power loss events.

STANDOUT RESULTS

- All Display devices are Energy Star 5.0 compliant
- 80% of the AV Components are Energy Star qualified
- Non-activity automated shut down and shade/light control capabilities
- Network-based Remote monitoring and control reduces service travel
- HD Video and Telephone Conferencing reducing travel requirements
- 24 x 7 x 365 event timers for low/zero occupancy power-down scheduling