DataPath manages Shimizu Corporation's control center video wall

The Japanese architecture and civil engineering firm Shimizu Corporation use the controller DataPath VSN1182, together with your WallControl management software 10 Professional, for managing sources and content of your video wall, composed of 33 55” screens LG flat and curved.

With annual sales of approximately 15.000 millions of American dollars, the specialist in architecture and civil engineering Shimizu Corporation is one of the top five contractors in Japan and recognized among the top twenty in the world.

The company has installed a large video wall to modernize its Smart control center (SCC) multipurpose, located in its headquarters in central Tokyo, in order to monitor in detail and with data from numerous sources the process of no less than three new skyscrapers currently being built in the capital of Japan.

The new video wall, configured with 33 55” LG screens, allows you to monitor different elements and be used for more things, from monitoring the construction site of skyscrapers, via multiple network video cameras, to show the design and progress of each plant and the documents, as well as make videoconferences and presentations.

The search for a technically and commercially optimal solution for a video wall solution that would not only allow a large number of source inputs and outputs (from up to 4K60), but also flexible content and control, without the need for extensive programming of external controllers was a challenge.

Finally, Shimizu Corporation technology managers selected video wall controller Data path VSN1182, running management software WallControl 10 Professional to enhance the content.

The Datapath controller allows you to manage the video wall and even configure the bevel correction, plus display different fonts anywhere and at any size, which are started directly from the web page, reducing the requirement for external PC source machines.

Another of its capabilities is the ability to independently manage content layouts within subsections of the video wall., as well as expand the number of entrances and/or exits in the future if necessary.

The video wall is made up of 55” flat and curved screens from LG, in configuration of 11×3, that wraps around the left and right walls of the SCC. With the Multi Wall function of the WallControl software 10 de Datapath, Operators can control the left areas, middle and right independently, or change it as a single display surface.

Graphics settings could be adjusted to correctly apply bezel correction on multiple display models (flat and curve) what, although they offered the same active display area, they had slightly different vertical alignments and bezel dimensions.

While the solution began operating within the construction management building with one of the three towers under construction, video wall controller can be moved, and even expand or reconfigure to meet long-term future needs, as a control center inside one of these towers.

As these three new skyscrapers rise above the Tokyo skyline, All building elements currently have a centralized control center that provides a huge amount of data and information, from live on-site camera feeds to important logistics information.

Michael Austin, Datapath APAC Sales Director, explains that “the challenge of monitoring all the elements of this construction project, along with internal messages, was considerable. Using Datapath's VSN system and WallControl10 software, Smart Control Center has flexible management of this content, ensuring that staff and management can instantly change focus when necessary and as the construction project develops.”.