Camvine Brings Galapagos Asparagus to The King's School, Peterborough

Camvine, a developer and provider of innovative digital signage solutions, has completed a showcase project at The King's School in Peterborough, England. The system, which now comprises 17 screens around the school, plays a key role in communications between school, students, parents and staff - including the news that, during National Science Week, 'Galapagos Asparagus' was on the canteen menu!

Camvine's Content Delivery Architecture (CODA) allows screens to be connected to the existing school network without the need for a PC, thus saving power and management complexity. Content sources - which can be anything from webcams to webpages to user-generated content of all types - can be dragged and dropped onto individual screens or groups of screens via a simple web interface, accessible from anywhere.

John Kinchin, Assistant Head Teacher at The King's School, commented: "We looked at a number of solutions - having a PC with every screen was just too hard to manage and the costs soon escalated. Others needed special-purpose networks to be installed, which was out of the question. Camvine offered us a system which was both lower cost and a much better solution. We find the system is very popular both with staff and students, and we regularly find new uses for it."

For example, the school can display seismology data from its own sensors alongside other seismology data sourced from around the world. And daily images from NASA are one of the system's biggest hits. Students take an active role in the screen network, often contributing their own work as content. "These are the advertising executives of the future," points out Mr Kinchin.

"We think The King's School is a good illustration of how organisations can improve their internal communications with minimal disruption and a very short learning curve", added Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Camvine's CEO. "We're seeing strong interest from schools, who face significant challenges in communicating with staff, students and parents."

A full case study can be downloaded from the Camvine website.

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1) The photographs accompanying this release can be downloaded from:
http://camvine.com/cases/coda-kings-school-peterborough

About Camvine

Cambridge Visual Networks Ltd (generally abbreviated to Camvine) creates new ways of deploying and interacting with visual information. Camvine's aim is to make digital signage simple to install, intuitive to manage and environmentally friendly. Their CODA (Content Delivery Architecture) system has been deployed in a range of industries including education, healthcare and manufacturing.

Based in Cambridge, England, the company is privately held. For more information, visit www.camvine.com.

About The King's School

The King's School is a Voluntary Aided Church of England comprehensive secondary school, with a large academic Sixth Form. It was founded by Henry VIII in 1541 as the Cathedral School to educate the Cathedral choristers and this close link with the Cathedral is still valued and maintained today.

Over 960 pupils attend The King's School, of whom over 340 are in the Sixth Form. For more information visit www.kings.peterborough.sch.uk