The
standard DCN hardware has integral parliamentary style voting
facilities, and special dedicated voting software
modules allows considerably
more, including audience response, multiple choice and rating
voting.
Scripts
can be prepared in advance, and results can be displayed
in the conference venue. In every mode, the chairman or
operator can start, stop and suspend voting as required.
Voting
can be made by delegates from
Concentus
units (illustrated right) or
flush-mounted
voting panels. The use of standard
credit-card format chip-cards can be used by delegates to
identify themselves to the DCN system. This can be a prerequisite
for access to conference facilities such as microphone use
and voting.