The Youth Employment Center (YEC) is a unique project of the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population. Its purpose is to provide young people who have no work experience with real employment opportunities and assist in realizing their potential.
The YEC offers a new format of interaction among young people and employers, combining an online platform and an offline site in the center of Moscow to accumulate all relevant information flows about the city’s labor market and the best vacancies for young people.
The offline site is located in a four-storey building in Shchepkina Street and is visited by hundreds of people daily. The center offers master classes, training workshops and forums, as well as professional advice services in various fields related to employment of the youth.
To support work of the center’s staff and activities it holds, Avilex developed and introduced an integrated audiovisual solution including an electronic queue system, a digital signage solution, a conference hall, a small hall, a training area, and a work area for the center’s staff.
Conference hall
The conference hall is designed for events with a large number of participants, such as conferences, forums and seminars. Given that the hall serves a variety of purposes, it has been decided to abandon the concept with a podium and presidium on the stage, which is a standard solution for this kind of halls, and create as much as possible multi-purpose environment where tables and chairs can be arranged in any configuration.
A video wall consists of eighteen 55-inch LG displays in a 6х3 configuration connected by a Datapath processor and providing an image resolution of 11,520 х 3,240 pixels.
The video wall can display different information and presentation content to accompany presentations or can be used for communicating with remote participants via video or web conferencing.
The hall is provided with Panasonic PTZ cameras positioned to ensure an appropriate shooting angle for any arrangement of the hall. The video conferencing system in the hall is built using modern and flexible Polycom equipment.
A mobile speaker’s stand is provided for making presentations. It has a Sharp interactive display to manage presentations and two microphones for speech amplification. Those speakers who prefer to move around can use radio and head microphones.
Sound is provided by a system of wall-mounted loudspeakers controlled by a Biamp digital sound processor.
The functions of the hall equipment can be controlled from a control room which is located behind the conference hall. The operator workstation is equipped with three HP control monitors, a camera control unit, a monitor loudspeaker system, an interface for connecting external devices, and an AMX control panel. From here, the operator can monitor the event progress, switch video signals, manage the levels of sound and control dimming in the hall (all the windows in the conference hall are closed with controllable motorized curtains).
The equipment installed in the hall fully meets its purposes and provides the required flexibility of use, with possible applications ranging from serious conferences with the participation of the City’s top officials and foreign experts to programs for young people and entertaining shows.
Small hall
The small hall is designed for working meetings, seminars and training workshops for a rather small audience.
The hall has an 84-inch Promethean LCD display installed on a mobile rack enabling attendees to manage their presentations by themselves, provide graphic comments regarding others’ presentations, and even draw different diagrams, explanations and charts like on an ordinary whiteboard.
Images from attendees’ laptops are displayed using wireless technology and do not require any cables, adapters or alike to be connected.
The hall is provided with sound via a system of ceiling-mounted loudspeakers. 12 Bosch discussion system consoles are available on the table to amplify the speech of participants.
With these technical solutions the hall is equipped with every tool necessary for holding events of different formats.
Training area
The training area is comprised of individual similarly equipped transformable rooms designed for training sessions. Each room has an 84-inch Promethean interactive LCD display mounted on a mobile rack, which allows for changing the room configuration depending on the goal to be achieved. A touch screen allows for delivering illustrative presentations and work with training materials directly on the screen without returning to a desktop or laptop.
A manual microphone and a handing microphone that deliver sound to the ceiling-mounted loudspeaker system are available for speakers.
To control equipment in rooms, compact Extron controllers with a push-button control panel are used to allow for selecting the source of video signal for the screen and for adjusting the sound volume in the room.
Staff offices
As part of the project, offices of the Center’s staff are provided with all the equipment necessary for work, such as workstations and multifunctional devices.
For the front office staff, there is an electronic queue system with a preliminary appointment functionality which is integrated with the citywide management system and connects the My Documents city centers, the employment centers of the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population and many other organizations.
For the purposes of navigation in the building and displaying relevant information content in different areas of the Center, a flexible distributed display system, Digital Signage, was created in accordance with the modern trends in outfitting public spaces.
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