Cost-Effective Team Training Remote System for Computer Aided Design
Team performance depends on both individual and collaborative skills. This dependence creates increasing education and training demand while striving to improve teams’ efficiency. Consequentially, training and education systems emerge with new capabilities that are changing the learning landscape. With increasingly disperse and mobile teams it can be very inefficient and costly to provide training and education in a centralized instructor-led classes’ manner. Remote solutions are able to reach far more potential users at any moment, and tend to be satisfactory and possibly preferred in many different training and education areas. Computer Aided Design (CAD) requires high quality graphics for positive impact and high satisfaction. Software tools used for hands-on CAD training exercises depend on dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to deal with complex graphics processing needed to visualize virtual models in real-time. It is challenging for the remote training system to offer this high level of experience to remote users. In this paper, synergy of conventional CAD laboratory workstations into cells is proposed in order to create a cost-effective team training remote system. The system utilizes existing capabilities of dedicated GPUs and custom software modules to capture video, perform hardware HEVC encoding, and stream the video at low bitrates and sub-second latency to remote team members.