Impact kits out Essex college kitchen: VIDEO

Paul Milligan, August 25, 2009

Impact has specified and installed a range of a-v kit at the South-East Essex College to help modernise its cookery lessons. Impact has installed a combination of cameras, customised control panels and a central server to record the lessons in the Ora Kitchen and Students Skills Kitchen.

The college wanted its cookery teaching to offer students flexibility in a modern setting. The recording system, powered by Xenturixm, is operated via a wall-mounted Crestron control panel and a wireless water and heatproof Crestron lanyard system.

Using the tools, chefs are able to pause and review a current recording during a live lesson while continuing to record centrally. Students can then access these recordings on demand.

Both kitchens have waterproof LCD screens that allow lecturers to see the current camera view and review the last recorded content via a hard-disk recorder. Two ceiling-mounted cameras in each kitchen capture the action, with pre-set positions covering the major working areas; they have pan, tilt and zoom capabilities for fine-tuning.