Parliament Broadcast System

Glensound's Parliamentary Broadcast System (PBS) is a combination of debating chamber & committee room equipment that provides the audio feeds for Broadcast, Recording & Sound Reinforcement with a software package that integrates control, voting & delegate management facilities and streamlines workflows.

Advanced software to simplify workflows for various user types
Off the shelf solutions that can be adapted for specrfic needs of any parliament
Committee rooms & main debating chamber audio solutions
Remote delagate integrated video confrencing with full voting
Voting, camera control, logging and graphic contrrol integration
Multiple redundant infrastructures for fail safe reliability
Broadcast, recording & sound reinforcement circuits

Glensound has been designing and manufacturing bespoke audio solutions for parliamentary debating chambers and committee rooms since the late 1980s. Our expertise has been refined over the years and now culminates in the new PBS Committee Room and Main Chamber solution:

Streamline parliamentary proceedings and organizational meetings with our state-of the-art audio & control system. Designed for seamless integration and unparalleled performance, the PBS solution offers advanced conferencing capabilities, remote participation options, and customizable configurations to meet the unique needs of a parliamentary, government or court room environment.

Tthe facilities in the PBS system are modular to allow a system that meets your requirements. However our systems have been designed to provide the facilities for the following three similar but distinctly different scenarios:

1) SEATED MAIN CHAMBER
In this scenario every delegate has their own microphone/ loudspeaker/ voting keys etc. either free standing on, or built into the desk. Importantly selection of whom is speaking and the turning on/ off of microphones is done in an organised fashion and the Chairperson or an operator will manually control this.

2) AD HOC MAIN CHAMBER
Think of the Westminster Parliament in England. Delegates are packed into benches and therefore many microphones are suspended from above and hundreds of loudspeakers are discreetly built into the backs of the benches. Selection of microphone on/ off is carried out by an operator.

3) COMMITTEE ROOM
The main difference between our concept of a Committee Room and Main Chamber is that a Committee Room is generally a more reserved environment where the delegates discuss their agendas in a civilized manor. This means microphone selection
can be performed completely automatically by our system therefore eliminating the cost of an in room operator. However both in room and off site operators can be assigned if needed.

The seminar below goes into some details of the PBS system as used by the Scottish Parliament.