Clinical Skills
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Scottish Ballet select Cameron Communications
Camerons are installing a site wide digital archiving system at the new Scottish Ballet premises. Our Freeway Digital Signage system will also be installed in various locations throughout the building
Erskine-Stewarts Melville select Camerons
Further to the successful installation of their new digital signage system, Camerons will be installing the latest Promethean Pro300 whiteboards in two campusses later this summer
Morrisons PLC choose Freeway
This summer Morrisons PLC logistics site will be installing our Freeway digital signage system to keep their staff informed with corporate news and traffic reports
Freeway goes from strength to strength
The Freeway Digital Signage, exclusive to Camerons, continues to go from strength to strength with more and more systems being installed throughout the UK
Cameron Communications have over the past 6 years been at the heart of developing digital recording camera systems for the Nursing and Medical Simulation Market. With systems operating in University and National Health Teaching Schools, Cameron has the experience to develop a system to match your requirements.
There are a number of supporting documents that give more information with regards our clinical skills products. These are available in pdf format here.
Visual Recording System details
Clinical Skills Software manual
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If you want to get in touch to discuss your clinical monitoring needs, please contact us at clinicalskills@camcomms.com.
System Overview
This document gives details of typical system and specifications that may help in you choosing the right system configuration. The system uses high quality cameras located in various simulation areas which are connected to a master or sub control room area, where the camera images are recorded digitally on to a hard disk recorder system. All functions are controlled from master software allowing simple control from these areas. The software although simple to use is intelligent in that multiple recording sessions can simultaneously run from pre determined areas on a manual or timed basis. Other functions such as instant playback of any recording in dedicated ‘Breakout’ areas for analysis, and external Web Casting for local network or world web viewing can be implemented.
Cameras
The system uses high quality cameras which have optical zoom giving extremely sharp images. Low light performance means no external lighting is required. With integral pan and tilt it gives the camera a wide range of coverage around any simulation area. Cameras will either be IP or Base Band Video connections depending on the particular simulator set up.The cameras can be mounted as ceiling or any wall position giving flexibility within any system.
Ward Area Layout
Layout of ward areas will differ. As a guide usually a camera will be at the bottom of the bed area and inside the curtain area. The cameras will give a wide enough angle to cover most of the bed area and close enough to see the smallest detail if required. Audio is critical and two high sensitivity microphones will be placed above the bed area giving clear audible audio for the recordings. An intercom can be placed either at each bed area or communal depending on your application.
Sim Man Areas
Sim Man type areas use the same principal as the Ward for cameras and audio. Cameron have developed in addition to just recording the cameras from these areas the ability to mix the PC or Mac data signal(Sim Man Control) with the cameras as full frame or picture in picture mode allowing you to record digitally a signal where you can see in perfect sync the data to the visual response by the student. This allows detailed analysis of these areas.
Break Out Areas
After recordings have been made, any recorded clip can be played on any type of screen. This could be Plasma/LCD screens mounted on the wall or Projection type screens as shown. Cameron’s ‘Search’ software can instantly recall any ‘Student’ recording for desired analysis. These rooms can also be used for viewing any simulation ‘live’ allowing many more students to watch the simulation.
Hardware / Control Room
The amount of hardware used will depend on the number of cameras and simulation areas. The system can handle up to thirty two camera sources recording simultaneously. Cameras are switched through a video matrix allowing any camera to be recorded on any digital hard disk recorder. Each recorder has a small footprint being only approx 220mm square with silent operation. The software system operates on a Windows platform allowing easy integration with other networks. Other recordings devices such as DVD recorders can be used, although these do not give the same flexibility as networked hard disk systems. All equipment is rack mounted for neater installation. The quality of recording can be adjusted to suit, recording in a selection of universal formats such as Windows Media, AVI, and Div X allowing viewing on most PC’s. Any recording can also be copied to CD/DVD for viewing if desired.
Control Room Areas
The heart of the system is the Control Room area. As you can see from above all cameras can be monitored and all system parameters controlled from a central control PC system. This area allows the routing of any camera to any recorder and the ability to communicate with any area. Signals are also routed to Break Out room for ‘live’ presentation or Web Casting if installed. It is important that good air circulation is maintained in this room as the bulk of the hardware is located here.
System Software
System software allows control of cameras and routing. Operations from a single recording to multiple recordings can be controlled. Cameron has also included the feature allowing a Excel spreadsheet to be created showing ‘Student’ allocation for each bed. This spreadsheet can be stored and translated by the system allocating camera to recorder as per the spreadsheet instruction. This was designed for ‘Large Student Numbers Exams.
