Molloy College, a private liberal arts college on Long Island, New York, funded several new construction initiatives to meet rising enrollment demand. One of the most recently finished projects is the Barbara H. Hagan Center for Nursing, a new state-of-the-art academic building on Molloy’s Rockville Centre campus.
The sustainably designed building provides consolidated space for the school’s nursing division, including specially designed nursing laboratories, a telepresence room, a computer laboratory, simulation rooms, and a healing garden. Advance Sound Company was brought onto the core team to spearhead the audio-visual technology design, with Clockaudio microphones specified as key to the Nursing Center’s classrooms.
Learning happens when there is a clear ability for the professor and students to communicate. Within the classroom, the speaker’s voice needed to be clearly picked up and distributed evenly throughout the classroom so that everyone could hear and participate in question-and-answer segments. The technology also needed to support a way to channel multiple responses so that students were not talking over each other.
Advance Sound Company, a Long Island based AV integration firm, specified Clockaudio’s C012E-RF through-table cardioid boundary layer microphone, fixed and mounted into every desk surface in the tiered basement classrooms. Each C012E-RF is paired with a CH32 touch switch and status indication ring at its base, letting professors and students instantly identify who is speaking.
Working in tandem with a Crestron DM Matrix control system, the microphone and touch switch let students enter and remain in a queue while waiting their turn to speak. When a student presses the CH32 status button, the audio processor identifies them as “first in,” the base light turns green to signal “on,” and a camera in the room is cued to focus on the speaker. Other students who have opted in show a red “on but waiting” status. For the center’s multi-function spaces with no fixed layout, Clockaudio C007 ceiling microphones were also specified so coverage could move with the space.
The success of this project was the result of seamless collaboration between specialized partners, each contributing unique expertise to deliver an exceptional outcome.
Advance Sound Company, a 45-year-old Long Island based AV integration firm founded in 1971, spearheaded the technology design and specifications for the project, having previously worked with Molloy College.
Clockaudio supplied the C012E-RF through-table boundary microphones and C007 ceiling microphones central to the Nursing Center’s classroom audio design.
Molloy College is a private, Long Island, New York college providing a value-centered, multi-dimensional liberal arts education to approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
| Quantity | Brand | Model | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple | Clockaudio | C012E-RF | Through-table cardioid boundary layer microphone fixed into every desk surface in the tiered classrooms |
| Multiple | Clockaudio | CH32 | Touch switch and status indication ring paired with each C012E-RF microphone |
| Multiple | Clockaudio | C007 | Ceiling microphone specified for the center's multi-function spaces with no fixed layout |
| 1 | Crestron | DM Matrix | Control system integrated with the microphone touch-switch queuing workflow |
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