For students, there are 71 individual clinical workstations with a workbench and a mannequin head to mimic real-life practice. Each is fitted with an overhead dental microscope and Marshall Electronics 4K live camera and HP 24” FHD monitor – students can also connect their own laptop either manually or wirelessly, and switch between their own monitor and the information being shown on the lecturer’s display using a Crestron push button controller (although this can be overridden by the master control). These workstations enable every student to receive bespoke guidance and demonstrations, along with the option to record their work.
The lecturer’s station has a display with a camera, to allow practical demonstrations. A Crestron TSW-1060-B-S touch panel enables them to control what is shown on every monitor in the room. A key feature of the Crestron NVX AV over IP solution is that it not only allows flexible switching between different visual and audio systems within the same room, but also between different rooms and across multiple floors.
This flexibility has really enhanced the teaching within the Institute, as lecturers on the fourth floor can speak directly to the dentists who are actively working on patients on the second floor via a Dante audio over IP Beyerdynamic Unite AP4 microphone system. The dentist in the surgery can stream a live visual feed to all 71 students at once with almost zero latency, giving them real life, engaging experiences without any disruption to the patient. The visual is taken using a GoPro Hero 5, converted for microscope mounting and an overhead PTZ camera.