MC-S supplies the Digibeter foundation with EVI-D100P cameras for their remote classroom system. This system makes it possible for children with a disease or disability, to follow classes and keep in touch with their schoolmates.
The system exists of a "pillar" consisting of a computing unit, display and a Sony EVI camera integrated as seen on the picture. This device is located in the classroom and is being remote-controlled by the student with pc.

Since the EVI-D100P camera is a Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera this gives the student the opportunity to look around and interact like he or she is actually in the classroom.

Due to this project, a long term disease or handicap does not increase the time spend to finish school.

About "Stichting Digibeter":
English:

The Digibeter Foundation enables children, who are away from school due to an illness or disability for a long time, to go to school and participate in their own education. The Digibeter equipment "brings" the classroom to their home. In this way, the time to finish a study is not unduly prolonged and contacts with fellow students can proceed as normally as possible.
The aim of this initiative is to give young people, with a chronic or prolonged illness, a normal life to lead. In the Netherlands there are over 250,000 children who are chronically ill. There have been many techniques developed in this field.

Digibeter is focused on:

• Facilitating distance education
• Contacts

Dutch:

Stichting Digibeter maakt het voor kinderen, die door hun ziekte of handicap gedurende een langere tijd niet naar school kunnen, mogelijk deel te nemen aan hun eigen onderwijs. De Digibeter apparatuur "brengt" de klas naar huis. Op deze manier wordt de schooltijd niet onnodig verlengd en de contacten met medeleerlingen kunnen zo normaal mogelijk blijven verlopen.

Doel van dit initiatief is om jongeren met een chronische of langdurige ziekte een zo normaal mogelijk leven te laten leiden. In Nederland zijn er meer dan 250.000 kinderen die een chronische ziekte hebben. Er zijn al veel technieken ontwikkelt op dit gebied.
Digibeter richt zich op:
• onderwijs op afstand
• faciliteren contacten onderhouden

More information (in Dutch) can be found here: http://www.digibeter.nl/ or via this brochure (in Dutch)