The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law has completed deployment of state-of-the-art digital signage technology aimed at decreasing its carbon footprint and enhancing the aesthetics of its campus environment.
The software product is called called CODA — Content Delivery Architecture — developed by Cambridge England-based Camvine. Officials say the law school is reducing its environmental impact through the installation of electronic digital signage displays that minimize the need for hundreds of flyers, postings, and announcements generated by student groups and the school’s administration.
“The CODA architecture gives us a powerful and cost effective way to provide our students with high quality service in an environmentally conscious manner,” said Robert Congdon, UDM Law’s director of information technology. “Cleaning up our environment and reducing the amount of paper used is a major focus of this project.
Congdon said students and school leadership “have embraced this technology, and I’m constantly getting suggestions and ideas for future use.
“One exciting potential,” he said, “is to use this technology to link together three separate university campuses in Detroit, as well as campuses in Canada and Mexico, to improve communication and sense of belonging.”
Nick Hawatmeh, president of the Student Bar Association, said that with more than 38 student organizations, flyers are usually “littering the entire law school.”
“With this technology, we’re able to put all of our content, such as our daily announcements and the student organization event calendars, on plasma screens centrally located on campus,” he said. “Not only does it help us get ‘with it’ and into this new century of technology, but it also helps make the school look much nicer and much cleaner.”
Camvine was founded by Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser, who said said the system will help UDM Mercy “ promote its long-standing credentials, deal with the communications challenges of today and provide a versatile platform that will equip the School of Law for tomorrow.”
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