Ultimate Visual Solutions (UVS), a company specialising in control room video walls and audiovisual (AV) technologies, is expanding its network of demonstration rooms across the United Kingdom. The move will allow a wide range of sectors, including CCTV, security and traffic control to see products which can help them. The…
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VuWall solutions power gas utility control room in Greece
VuWall has provided hardware and software for the control room of a government natural gas utility organisation in Greece. The VuWall system at DESFA, which was installed by integration firm Avidex, includes video wall controllers and advanced management software in order to streamline, control and visualise the incoming flow of…
AV Essentials: All under control in the control room
The control room market for AV has burgeoned in recent years, as more verticals have adopted the technology, and traditional situational awareness and process control implementations have been augmented by new applications, such as network security and online surveillance. “There’s a trend towards consolidating control room operations to fewer, larger…
Security by design: How Barco’s control room infrastructure helps to deal with threats
Control rooms are not islands. They are linked to the IP-network to connect with their many content sources. This means that there are gateways to the outside world, and where cybercriminals see a gateway, they smell an opportunity. It is the task of the platform designers to outsmart any intruder,…
Aetria: The scalable and future- proof control room solution
Awareness of how audio visual solutions can help consolidate control room operations, improve team collaboration and increase situational awareness for operators is growing, but is still far from comprehensive. It means traditional control rooms often lack the scalability and flexibility required to accommodate future technological advancements and changing operational needs.…
Gude Systems: Size matters – when smart power management meets small AV rooms
In times of hybrid work and an increasing number of UC rooms and huddle spaces in offices, the demand for AV and power supply technology to fit in any size and type of room is becoming ever more relevant. That’s why GUDE’s new compact power distributors have been optimised in…
Christie projectors display winemaker’s data on ceiling
Christie projection solutions are helping a US vineyard make the fermentation of its wine a more collaborative process. Six M 4K25 RGB pure laser projectors are displaying real-time data on the ceiling of the fermentation room at Palmaz Vineyards, in California's Napa Valley. At the heart of the 18-storey winery…
Matrox devices take to sea aboard underwater cabling ship
Media integrator AmyDV has installed a range of Matrox devices onboard a ship that undertakes underwater cabling operations. Asso Group – which specialises in the installation and maintenance of cables – tasked Matrox Video with designing and installing the video processing and distribution systems for the two control rooms and…
Crisis management centre equipped with Sony Crystal LED
A crisis management centre in Turkey is using Sony Crystal LED with a 1.26mm pixel pitch to monitor information on natural, technological and man-made disasters. AKOM – which opened in Istanbul in 2000, 16 months after an earthquake killed more than 17,000 people in Turkey – is the control centre…
Control room network failure crashes Dutch rail system
The failure of a small form factor pluggable transceiver brought the railway system in the Netherlands to a standstill on 4 June. The node outage, which occurred at about 5pm in a control room at Amsterdam Centraal station, crashed the control and safety network in the capital region for 15…