CooEE
The Echo360 Lecture Recording Monitoring System

CooEE is a stand-alone application for monitoring both version 1 and 2 Echo360 capture appliances and SCHD appliances.

Any number of lecture rooms can be displayed with CooEE, from a single Echo360 capture right up to every Echo360 enabled venue in the campus. With a simple GUI you can split monitoring out to specific locations, or even have a video wall of multiple monitors showing every venue for a 'god-view' of Echo360 recordings in all theaters at the same time.

CooEE alerts users about any problems during the lecture in a simple visual format using graphical icons that are instantly recognisable. CooEE informs the users of both past, current and upcoming lectures visually, making support easier. CooEE is a 24/7 monitoring solution that does not need any user intervention to do its work.

Lecture failures

The most common point of failure in lecture capture recordings has, time and again, been identified by administrators of Echo360 as occuring in the venue. Microphone and video faults, easily fixed, cause most recording failures. Until now, the problem has been to quickly and easily identify them before multiple lectures are lost. Once a lecture is lost it is gone forever, unless the lecturer re-records it. A recording has been calculated as costing thousands of dollars in equipment, resources and lost time. CooEE aims to reduce that incidence to zero with real time monitoring, enabling microphone, display and camera faults to be instantly identified and corrected either immediatley, or with minimal loss of future recordings.

The Problem

Confidence monitoring capabilities in Echo360 capture appliances are limited and require constant checks to ensure they capture that all important lecture. Detailed information about the current capture and confidence monitoring images are separated and thus it is almost impossible to have an overview of what exactly is going on. Scale this out to 50+ venues and it becomes an impossible task. Add to this a constant stream of suspect warning messages and the real problems get lost in the noise. CooEE addresses this issue and filters the signal from the noise as well as automating many manual processes.

Development

CooEE has been designed to be used as a separate easy-to-use one-to-multi screen application that gives administrators, students, AV staff and lecturers information about all the current captures occuring. These display screens feeds can be distributed and broken down to specific rooms, monitoring the current and next Echo360 capture. CooEE also has icon alerts to let administrators know of any possible errors with environmenatal (such as temperature), hardware(fans, disks), video (RGB,HSV,gray scale), display and audio inputs.

CooEE provides a simple and reliable confidence monitoring solution to system administrators of Echo360, lecturers and professors. The application can be installed on an old computer and will run 24/7. Students, Lecturers and professors can step into the lecture hall and just by looking at the computers screen see when will the next capture start. During the capture CooEE gives contant updates on the health of each recording, and visually alerts the administrators when there is a problem with one of the inputs.

This product is activily developed with new releases and features being added regularly. Upgrades are easy with a single deployment step, and backups of historical data can all be handled within the application itself.