CHALLENGE:
The Boston University School of Law needed a cost effective way to better communicate throughout the campus with the faculty and staff.

Like most universities, Boston University’s School of Law had several announcements that it needed to communicate to students on a daily basis, such as meeting times and places for student organizations, news, information on campus-wide events, and special announcements like security or emergency messages. Until recently, the school had been relying on old-fashioned announcement ways, including paper posters and bulletin boards. Both of these methods were inefficient and required too much regular maintenance. Security alerts, in particular, needed to be centrally managed and activated immediately.
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The largest dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sidney-Pacific Graduate Student Residence (S-P), was looking to run a digital display network for its 700 residents with minimal effort by a small team of student volunteers. There was already a large display at the main foyer and 16 displays in front of all elevator doors. With a high frequency of content changes due to submissions from students, campus events, calendar updates, local time/weather information, and MIT bus schedules, the system needed to update automatically. S-P also wanted to have the option to use SMS applications, including Security Alerts.

Sidney-Pacific picked Aerva’s AerChannel solution to drive its display network, SPTV, after 8 months of evaluation. AerChannel replaced an existing student-built system due to AerChannel’s powerful features and easy operation. The student volunteers also using the AerChannel API to program their own scheduling rules, such as probabilistic scheduling and automatic content expiration.
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