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Renkus-Heinz brings clarity to St. Mark’s Church... Deep in the heart of Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood lies St. Mark’s Church. Considered one of the best concert venues in the city, the church nave is quite large, with seating for more than 450 people. Parishioners celebrated the church's first service in 1849, under the overarching timber fretwork of the great roof. The Decorated Gothic style of the church, replete with vaulted ceilings, solid wood pews and stone masonry throughout, contributed to an unsatisfactory reverberation time of three seconds.

Church staff reached out to Joe DiSabatino, lead design engineer at JD Sound & Video, to design a new audio system for the sanctuary. DiSabatino partnered with local acoustical engineer, Hadi Sumoro of HX Audio Lab, to model the acoustics using EASE to design the system and SysTune to tune and optimise. Additionally, JD Sound & Video contacted Renkus Heinz’s regional manufacturer representatives, Audio Associates, to assist with the installation.

“We have an extensive history working with Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers, and the EASE model showed great performance in the nave,” said DiSabatino. “Their beam steering arrays eliminated the need for delay speakers which would have required mounting to columns, something the church would not approve.”

JD Sound & Video installed IC Live Gen5 ICL-F-DUAL-RN arrays in the nave to improve speech intelligibility and provide even front-to-back coverage. Renkus-Heinz’s RHAON II System Manager software lets the installer define the opening angles for as many as eight sonic beams from each ICL-F-DUAL-RN array module and aim them up or down. Meanwhile, the slim enclosure remains inconspicuous. For St. Mark’s installation, an artist custom-painted the cabinets in a complimentary stone motif to help them further blend into the space.

Renkus-Heinz brings clarity to St. Mark’s Church USA: Deep in the heart of Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood lies St. Mark’s Church. Considered one of the best concert venues in the city,...

How Data-Driven Video is Helping Keep K–12 Students Safe.

Faced with a near-overwhelming range of daunting issues in education today, school districts across the U.S. are challenged with creating optimal learning environments. And unfortunately, administrators must first work to provide their students with nutrition and a comfortable, secure, and safe environment.

Students have a tough time engaging with classroom learning if they are hungry or if the school lacks basic furnishings and utilities—and students will undoubtedly have trouble learning if they are fearful of being at school and are worried about their safety and security. The rise in school shootings, vandalism, bullying, and other violent incidents has caused district administrators to look for innovative solutions to help secure their schools and proactively protect their students and staff.

As school districts work to rise to the challenge while simultaneously being asked to do more with less, data-driven video has emerged as a viable and effective solution for helping secure the learning environment. Data-driven video management systems, along with today's smart cameras, sensors, and video analytic software, provide insights that can help schools identify and address potential safety and security threats. As technology has advanced, the costs of these devices and technologies have dropped significantly, and system usability has become easily manageable for non-security and non-technical users.

Real-Time Decision-Making Assistance
While almost every school today has some form of on-site video surveillance, these systems are often used to record video with the intent that if something happens, school administrators can go back and review the event..

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