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Revisiting some of our favourite technology innovations 25 years down the track!

Revisiting some of our favourite technology innovations 25 years down the track!

25 Years. 25 Million Installs.*

Okay. That’s clearly an exaggeration.* We don’t exactly know how many installations we’ve performed over the course of our 25-year history. What we do know, though, is that we have a pretty awesome portfolio that we couldn’t be more proud of.

Today, we’ll open the doors again, and share with you some of our favourite, most innovative techology deployments in our history.

ESTA

In 2018-19, ESTA implemented its Integrated Strategic Plan 2023 (ISP2023), a five-year road map to align its core services with the expectations of its partner agencies and the community. One of the core directives involved strengthening service resilience and surge management by moving to an “all services at multiple sites model.” Primarily, this involved a move of core facilities to a new site at Williams Landing.

As part of this move, ESTA – with the guidance of Lucid Consulting Australia – contracted the design and integration team at Vision One to develop and deploy audio visual turnkey solutions to support the needs of the new facility.

Elite Football

Elite Football in Maribyrnong is Melbourne’s ultimate indoor soccer experience. The team at Vision One Technologies – with no shortage of their own indoor football fanatics – collaborated with the team at Elite to create a stunning audio visual showpiece for their new facility.

Stealing the show and hanging 6 metres above the artificial turf below, 9x Phillips Video Wall Display Panels were hung on a Vogel’s custom mounting structure. The video wall primarily transmits content from Foxtel’s beIN Sports and Optus’ Fetch box.

Carey Baptist Grammar School

In 2017, Vision One were proud to have worked with Carey Baptist Grammar School in the design, development and deployment of their Centre for Learning & Innovation building.

The showpiece of Carey Grammar School’s Centre for Learning & Innovation (CLI) building is the Imaginarium Alpha room. Originally designed to provide students and staff with a space where they could interact with new and exciting innovative technology, the Imaginarium allows for the space to be used in many varying applications, limited only by the users ‘imagination’.

Domaine Chandon

In 2019, Vision One collaborated alongside the team at Alaud, a creative studio and production company that specialises in visionary work for global, innovative brands to create a visual marvel for Domaine Chandon‘s refurbished winery tour exhibit.

Located in the prestigious Yarra Valley, such a luxurious setting could only be accompanied by the most esteemed line of audio visual technology, with rooms bearing innovative wonders like the 4m x 1.5m VuePix QE2 LED Video Wall Display, Philips 2×2 49″ video walls and Philips 65” 65BDL3000Q Signage Panels.

Wyrestorm Creates Case Study for Elite Football’s Audio Visual Solution

Wyrestorm Creates Case Study for Elite Football’s Audio Visual Solution

There’s no doubt that we had a ball with Wyrestorm’s AV-over-IP solution when crafting and delivering the audio visual solution for Elite Football in Maribyrnong. Now, the wonderful team at Wyrestorm have collated and released their very own case study summary of the project, highlighting the scope of works along with some in-depth analyses from James Sismanes of our projects team.

wyrestorm elite football audio visual case study

Click here to view the full case study or check out a snippet below:

Elite Football in Maribyrnong is Melbourne’s ultimate indoor soccer experience. The team at Vision One Technologies – with no shortageof their own indoor football fanatics – collaborated with the team at Elite to create a stunning audio visual showpiece for their new facility powered by WyreStorm NetworkHD AV over IP. Vision One’s James Sismanes notes the decision to use WyreStorm to handle the AV signal management for this unique project was based on previous experience with the brand and the reliability offered by the company’s products: “We’ve been actively using WyreStorm’s range of HDMI extenders, splitters and switchers for some time now and have grown to rely on their durability. We’re in the business of automated upkeep without the constant need for service/repair/replacement and with WyreStorm’s product range, we’re confident knowing that any scope of works we recommend will be self-maintainable and as close to bulletproof as possible.”

Without doubt the highly visible centerpiece of the project is a 3×3 video wall comprising 9x Phillips Display Panels hanging 6m above the artificial turf below a Vogel custom mounting structure. The video wall primarily transmits content from Foxtel beIN Sports and Optus Fetch box.

wyrestorm elite football audio visual case study

Userful is Your Easy & Powerful Custom Video Wall Solution

Userful turns a standard PC into a flexible and powerful video wall controller that delivers visually stunning video wall displays over the network with unparalleled simplicity and ease, at an affordable price. With Userful you can:

  • Using virtually unlimited simultaneous internal and external content sources
  • …on preset zones across a single video wall
  • …or onto a mix of video walls and digital signs
  • All controlled in real time through Userful’s API or with remote control tools which staff can use to invoke zone and content presets created by Administrators

Industry Standard Hardware

Userful video walls use standard, off-the-shelf server or PC hardware and network zero client devices connected over a standard gigabit Ethernet network. Single install setup turns a standard Intel Core i7 PC into a browser-managed video wall controller. Optionally add extra Nvidia video cards which are used by Userful software to offload video rendering thereby increasing the power of the PC and the number of screens and size of content supported.

Artistic and Grid Configurations

Arrange video walls in standard grid or artistic formats. Rotate individual displays to any angle to create a unique video wall.

Add virtually unlimited content inputs from just about any source: Local CMS player, Live TV, RTSP, RDP, VNC, an interactive desktop or full screen browser or just about any content using one or more HDMI or SDI capture cards.

Configuration Flexibility

Preset zone support allows for the display of simultaneous content streams on specified displays within the video wall which can be changed on the fly as needed.

With a single touch customers can instantly change the content playing on the video wall using a smart phone or tablet.

Powerful Control Features

Userful has a powerful suite of control tools. Administrator can preset zone and content options for all displays, and then staff are able to invoke those presets using a tablet or smartphone switching content and zones across all video walls and displays with a single touch. Userful also allows users to control the mouse and keyboard of an interactive video wall from a smartphone or tablet. Ths effectively turns every video wall into a touch video wall.

The Userful platform began as a virtual desktop solution, reducing the cost and simplifying desktop deployments around the world. Delivering cost effective centralized and virtualized desktops however was just the beginning for Userful. Since then, we’ve developed our software platform to do amazing things for displays of all kinds. Userful also supports high performance video walls, digital signs and locked down kiosks that are easy to manage, cost effective to deploy. From interactive video walls, to artistic, mosaic-style video walls, or simple control room applications, Userful is a high-end video wall controller that makes it easy to synchronize and add intelligence to displays.

NEC adds 55-inch Ultra-Narrow Bezel Display to Video Wall Portfolio

NEC adds 55-inch Ultra-Narrow Bezel Display to Video Wall Portfolio

Commercial LCD display and projector solutions provider NEC Display Solutions of America has announced its X554UNV display, designed to be ideal for indoor video wall applications in control rooms, retail stores and transportation environments.

According to NEC, forward-looking organizations continue to deploy video walls for strategic business advantage. According to market research firm DisplaySearch, the global large-screen display market is expected to grow 27 percent this year to more than 3 million units shipped, and video walls are contributing to that expansion, the company said in the announcement.

The new display launch is in response to those rising market expectations, NEC said. With an ultra-narrow bezel design of just 3.5mm between neighboring displays, commercial-grade brightness and ultra-HD TileMatrix support, the X554UNV delivers a 3840 x 2160 UHD resolution across an entire video wall. Its direct LED-backlighting also delivers improved brightness uniformity, reduced power consumption and mercury-free components, the company said.

In addition, Auto TileMatrix features allow a user to simply set up the size of the video wall on the first display and automatically scale the content through the remaining displays. With the press of a few buttons, the entire video wall is set up. The result is faster installation, which reduces costs and improves the customer experience, NEC Display said.

“Video-wall displays, like the X554UNV, help a variety of organizations not only make bold statements but also deliver on business objectives,” said Keith Yanke, senior director of product marketing for large-screen displays and projectors at NEC Display. “They are just some of the solutions that NEC Display is leveraging to help people and organizations communicate, build relationships, inspire, impart knowledge and improve productivity.”

The X554UNV also supports Intel’s Open Pluggable Specification, the first industry-wide standardization in option slots to simplify digital signage. The OPS option slot allows for easier installation, use and maintenance of digital signage.

Among its other features:

Full commercial build with steel chassis, commercial-grade cooling fans and temperature sensor;
Auto ID feature, which reduces install time in the single press of a button;
Expanded connectivity panel, including DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and OPS slot support;
Expanded daisy chain options with DisplayPort 1.2, which enables 4K resolution;
Brightness of 500 cd/m² and 4000:1 contrast ratio;
Auto ID/Auto TileMatrix technology for video walls up to 100 displays;
Carbon footprint meter, which calculates and tracks carbon savings;
ENERGY STAR 6.0, which meets strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy; and
NaViSet Administrator 2, which eases administration and management.

Rise of the Network Video Wall

Rise of the Network Video Wall

Video walls are becoming increasingly visible in our world. They make big statements, capture attention and promote brands in a unique fashion. Sales and installations of video walls are experiencing record growth as customers seek a new, high-impact approach to digital signage.

This is driving companies to seek video wall solutions that are more powerful, more flexible and yet, like everyone else in the world, they don’t want to break the bank. Unfortunately, the current video wall market is hampered with costly and complicated solutions that all too often turn out to be limited in functionality. It’s time for new approaches to bring simplicity, flexibility and affordability to the video wall market.

The answer to this problem is leveraging standardized PC hardware instead of specialized AV hardware, and taking advantage of networks to simplify delivery. Deploying video walls using PC and LAN infrastructure means less specialized knowledge is required for setup, while also reducing the hardware and support staff needed to deploy large-scale video walls.

There are three different approaches to using the network to stream content to multiple displays within a video wall. The first way is to deliver the entire image to every display on the video wall and then have each display output only the appropriate cropped portion of the content. For example, with a 25-display video wall, all displays receive the entire image, but the player device located at each display crops and outputs only 1/25 of the total image. This approach works well for 1080p and lower resolution, but is not ideal for 4K and higher content because of its high-data requirements.

The second approach lets users pre-split and separately upload the cropped portions of the video. Player devices on each display talk to each other in order to maintain image synchronization. However, this method makes it time-consuming for customers to create content and upload portions to the video wall. It also eliminates many capabilities such as interactive content or real-time feeds.

The third approach to network video wall deployment involves content that is split, cropped, rotated, scaled at the server location. The server only sends the required section of the image to each display. It also uses network bandwidth much more efficiently, while also creating a high-performance and flexible video wall. This way, content is pre-split in real time and customers don’t have to waste valuable time preparing their video wall content.

More and more people are switching to network video walls, not only for cost-savings, but also for the flexibility benefits. Using the network allows for the PC or server to be placed anywhere in the building. Most other solutions require the server to be located right at the video wall, making it difficult to manage in high-traffic areas or hard-to-reach places.

Small zero-client devices can be placed at each display to connect over the network to significantly reduce downtime and allow the server to be located almost anywhere. Customers can even have displays in high-heat or greasy areas such as quick-service restaurants, without worrying about ruining the server.

Utilizing the network to power digital signage enables anyone to centralize the CPU and GPU processing. Previous approaches with network delivery required video walls to maximize the computing power at each display in order to support content and proper image synchronization. When done correctly, network-delivered video walls are more efficient and require much less hardware when computing power is centralized to one PC or server. The server connects to the client devices at each display, meaning all processing is centralized and easily supports stunning 4K content in a low-cost way.

Connecting video walls over the network provides a great range of capabilities for customers, while still remaining simple to manage and deploy. The amazing visual impact video walls have is undeniable. For those seeking simpler, more cost-effective video walls, the rise of solutions that leverage PCs and utilize the network is a very welcome improvement.

Userful Corp. is an industry provider of centralised, interactive display and virtualised desktop software designed to make it simple and affordable for organisations to implement and centrally manage interactive display infrastructure in the post-PC era.

A Video Wall With a Twist

A Video Wall With a Twist

Challenge

A cellular store in a Canadian mall wanted to catch the eyes of passing shoppers. The architect wanted more than a simple 5×5 video wall and designed it to fit into a corner with the last column on the adjacent surface. On top of that, the installer only had 3-4 days to get the job done.

“The challenge was the super narrow bezel, a 90 degree bend, and to maintain serviceability,” said Gil Gauthier, Certified Technology Design Specialist at Advance Pro in Winnipeg, Canada. Advance Pro is an electronic systems integrator for audio, video, communications, security and multimedia.

 

Solution

Installing

Gauthier said the biggest advantage of the ConnexSys system is the ability to hang the mount from standard strut channel, a common item for AV installers. “It’s kind of like the Lego block of the installer world,” he added.

Senior technician, Joe Premecz, expects to encounter imperfect walls on the job site, which makes lining up displays a challenge with individual mounts. The use of strut channel, though, to provide an even reference surface, allowed him to accommodate the distortions of the wall.

“By attaching the mounts to the steel, the panels were near proper alignment from the start,” he said.

The installer only had three days on site to put in the wall on top of working around the electrician, flooring and lighting installers. They were using ultra narrow NEC displays with no bezel and a total gap of 1 millimeter between displays. On top of that, the last column’s perpendicular placement would be a huge challenge.

To meet that challenge, Premecz said the ability to slide the displays horizontally and adjust the depth made it easy to line up the corner edges. They spent half a day making sure the strut channel was installed and square, then put up the 25 panels in about three hours.

“They were a huge time saver,” Premecz said.side shot

Though there was a short turn around for delivery, Chief was able to ship the new mounts directly from the factory to arrive on site when needed.

“I know the installer kind of went white when he heard the 90 degree part,” Gauthier said. “It’s already a challenge to line up. If it wasn’t for those brackets, I don’t know how he would have done it.”

The micro adjustment allowed by the ConnexSys system to line up the screens safely before locking them in place, the quick leveling using strut channel to hang the main row of four screens, and the need for ultra precise alignment for the high definition content made the job possible.

“There’s no way it would have happened otherwise,” Gauthier said. “It keeps the installer happy. It keeps the job on track. And even if the customer doesn’t care about the bracket, they care that the wall works.”

Serviceability was also key. They needed front access to adjust and change content and software. The RapidDraw release system helped the installer pop out only the displays he needed to access at the time.

 

Results

The client is running live video, sporting events, and ads to draw people in to the store. Gauthier said any specs he does, he just puts Chief in now – that whatever extra price might be involved is more than covered by savings in installation costs, allowing the company to work tighter deadlines.

“Chief listened to installers,” Gauthier said. “This is a prime example of making life easier for installation guys. They said this makes life better and easier. It makes clients happier. The overall project was easier and smoother. It’s win win win. By looking after the installers, we are looking after everybody.”

Inside Interactivity

Vision One has been providing excellence in the AV/T (Audio, Visual, Information Technology) industry for over 16 years to Melbourne’s schools and businesses. Providing audio, visual and information technologies, Vision One offers an expansive range of integrated solutions, tailor-made to fit each individual customer’s needs.

Our “Inside Interactivity” video gives customers an inside look into how interactive technologies can change any operational landscape.

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