The Secu credit cooperative implements a complete digital signage solution at its headquarters

State Employees Credit Union Leverages the Benefits of Digital Signage for its New Building in Raleigh. A large interactive video wall with 18 Christie displays welcomes visitors, while a vertical Samsung screen serves as an information point. Besides, the conference room is equipped with different AV systems.

The officers of State Employees Credit Union (Secu), the second largest credit union in the United States, wanted to find a dynamic way to engage visitors entering their new office building 17 apartments located in the center of the capital of the state of North Carolina (Raleigh) y, besides, Take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital signage to apply it to your new headquarters to reinforce your identity. Besides, was also looking for a way to integrate a complete audiovisual solution into the new conference and meeting room.

To carry out this project, it had the collaboration of the integrator Whitlock Group and different technology companies such as Materials & Methods who was in charge of developing and managing the content, y Float4, who was in charge of interactive programming.

The key element of this installation is located in the first floor lobby.. It is an interactive video wall, composed of 18 LCD screens 55 inches of Christie, that responds to the gestural movements of the people who are in front of it. The staggered configuration of the LCD screens in this composition are surrounded by glass panels that are backlit with low-resolution LED tiles.. LED and LCD technologies have been combined to create a virtual canvas where content flows seamlessly between high and low resolution zones.

Materials & Methods has been the company in charge of developing and managing the content of this great video wall, project that has been carried out in collaboration with Secu and the team of architects from O'Brien Taquín. This content has been produced according to five scenarios: color fields, views, ink and water, models in nature and North Carolina state workers. The animations and interactive art content has been developed to engage visitors entering the building's lobby., while evoking a sense of curiosity that invites you to interact with the large mural.

Other scenarios, as Views, They allow navigation through the different images that open to show panoramic views of beautiful landscapes in the area.

Materials & Methods has had the participation of Float4 to integrate these contents into the visual system, for which an interactive RealMotion server has been used.. In addition, has also had the collaboration of Whitlock Group to develop the designs of the personalized interfaces of the touch panels of Crestron that control audio systems, building video and lighting.

A second audiovisual solution is located in the elevator area. A 1" LCD vertical screen has been installed here.×2 of Samsung of 46 inches that serves as a digital signage directory. The background content of this directory is programmed to support the information on the large interactive wall.

AV in the meeting room

The third project that has been carried out in this building affects the conference room and meeting room for employees. The integration of this area has been carried out by Whitlock Group, in collaboration with Coherent Design, which has implemented different technologies such as LED video screens, interactive content systems, IR video cameras, AV conference systems, multiple LCD and plasma screens 55, 70 y 103 inches, Creston control systems to manage lighting and different microphones and speakers have also been installed.

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