If you manage AV systems, Sanyo’s new PJ-Net Organizer can be a tremendous help.

It will make your job easier. It will make your installed projectors more reliable. It will save you money.

Benefits

Remote support. The biggest advantage of PJ Net is your ability to remotely support users of your classroom or conference room projection systems.

Suppose you have a user in Room 223 who can’t get an image to come up on the projection screen. It’s possible there’s a hardware problem, but in 9 out of 10 cases or more, it’s a user error such as choosing the wrong input on the projector. What to do? You could run down the hall or across the campus to see what’s going on, but with PJ Net Organizer installed you would simply bring that projector up on your computer screen, troubleshoot and solve the problem. It’s a tremendous time-saver.

With PJ Net, you can control the projectors from any computer you choose: from your own desk, from the AV department or library, or from any computer you happen to be near when you get a call for help. PJ Net Organizer operates from standard web browsers. You can access it from any computer on your network as long as you know the username and password.

Control. With PJ Net you’ll have complete control of each networked projector. Any change or adjustment accessible from the remote control is now on your computer screen. These include:

Feedback. PJ Net allows you to check the projector’s status. You can look at

Scheduling. PJ Net allows you to turn the projector on and off and select various inputs on a timer. Now you can set up

E-mail alerts. You can set up your projectors using PJ Net so they will alert you if something is needed. Alerts can include:

Components

The PJ Net system uses an extremely simple setup. Required components:

PJ Net at Thorn Creek Reformed Church

Dave Huizenga is in charge of media at Thorn Creek Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois. Last year Media Resources installed three Sanyo PLC-XP46 projectors at Thorn Creek, two at the front of the sanctuary and one in the back for the minister and choir to read. Huizenga uses them to project hymn lyrics and video. He controls the projectors with PJ Net organizer on a WiFi network using a Sanyo Wireless Imager.

“I’m using a wireless network,” says Huizenga, “because it was cost prohibitive to run wires up through the ceiling of the church. We’ve got a 40-foot ceiling and they would have had to be run all the way to the back, so I put a wireless bridge in and an access point, and it works very well. I can control the projectors independently or at the same time.”

Interestingly, Huizenga set up wireless video transmission to the projectors as well. The WiFi network standard that Sanyo uses is not fast enough to transmit standard video, so Huizenga went with a dedicated video transmitter and receiver. “I had some problems with interference between the wireless LAN and the wireless video, but once I figured out what frequencies I was at, I was able to work around it.” Huizenga adds that “I found the video transmitter on my own and talked to Brian about it. He tells me, from talking to these people, that this is what they use at NASCAR races to transmit that live camera picture, so we felt that it would probably be pretty stable for a fixed installation. It’s working well.”

Huizenga is using PJ Net itself for two purposes: to turn the projectors on and off and to adjust them from his control area at the back of the church. It’s a relatively simple setup in that Huizenga can see what the projectors are doing as he accesses them over the network.

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