City councils
Engagement & Accessibility
The challenge for cities and communities today is to get active involvement of the citizens. All citizens. One way to achieve this is to provide audio and video material of the city hall debates. But what if you could let the public interact actively using social media and present the all accompanying information, such as speaker names, agenda items and voting results clearly and quickly? That's where one way broadcasting ends and egagement begins!
The Arbor software provides a full automatic and extremely powerful way of achieving the mentioned goals. As organization you are ensured of a robust and reliable recording archive and you allow your stakeholders to engage.
Accurate & Searchable
Accurate and correct information is essential for this purpose. A misspelled name, makes an unprofessional impression, but - much more important - leads confusion and to loss of faith from the citizens in the system and thus in the city council as a whole. That is why our software allows full review and correction possibilities of recorded meetings, before publishing them. Both speakernames and agenda items can be modified, added, deleted etc. When everything has been verified the publication of the debate onto the platform is a matter of pressing a button.The upload process of the video, audio and all of the metadata is full automatic process, and the debate will appear in the cloud when this process is finished successfully.
Even if - despite all good efforts - a mistake is discovered after publication, this mistake can be corrected and the whole debate can be re-published. The platform will automatically determine that this is a re-publication of an existing debate and will replace the debate with the older, previous version.
Robust & Reliable
LogDepot captures the video signal automatically from the microphone system using the LogDepot encoder. To control the meeting the staff of the city council can either use our easy web interface, or let the microphone system start and stop the live-stream or use room automation systems such as Crestron and AMX to start and stop streaming. All of this just to make sure that each action must only performed once!
Connect & Broadcast
A professional appearance in the media requires professional delivery of audio and video content from the city hall to local or national broadcasters. The software automatically records city council meetings in both a high quality broadcast recording format and an efficient web proxy format. Users of the system can freely browse the recorded content using their web browser and instruct the export server to export the high quality broadcast material in a pre-defined broadcast format(H.264, MPEG2, MP4).
Applications
Audio and Video recording and streaming for City Halls and City Councils typically involves the following applications:
- Live Webcasting of City Council meetings
- Webpublishing archived meetings on a Video-on-Demand portal
- Hansard / Transcription recording to create the written report (verbatim)
- In-house publishing
- Archiving, preservation of the recorded material
Arbor Media provides with LogDepot and ConnectedViews a suite of products that covers the above applications in one efficient system. LogDepot is the well known capturing system, responsible for recording and live streaming audio and video inputs. Connected Views is the online portal creating a very accessible entry to Live Streams and archived meetings including relevant metadata (speaker names, agenda items, meeting titles, voting results and more).
Big and small cities throughout Europe have experienced the benefits of our user friendly solution. Modern, Professional, efficient and scalable from small communities to big international cities. Full integration with well-known conference systems (Televic Conference, Taiden, Bosch DCN, DIS) allow efficient and robust operation. Efficiently dealing with multi-lingual recordings from interpreter booths is a standard feature on our systems.
