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PROJECT

Mercury Energy Head Office

Mighty River Power

Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand

Liquid Automation provided a fibre solution for audio visual distribution and control system.

The System

Control

5 x CRESTRON 6” Colour LCD Touch panels.

 

Distribution

8 X 8 Crestron Fiber Digital Media Matrix with a 12.5Gbps back plane. Easily handling HDMI, HDCP, 1080P content delivery.

 

Video

4 x 55 LED screens

4 x 1080P Projector screens

2 x Sky HDI sat TV decoders

5 x Blu-ray players

 

Video Conference

Polycom with Crestron 2 way control this allows extremily simple control by having the address book come up on the touch panel and easy one step dialing.

 

Digital Signage

3 x 55’ LED screens showing in house advertising and content via the Digital Media Solution

 

Radio

Crestron Tuners allowing full Radio text broadcast info and signal strength to come up directly on the touch panels. This shows the Artist and Song name along with the station info when broadcast.

 

Partitioned areas

On the first floor there are three separate areas separated by two large partitions.

  

Zone one: there is a full board room complete with Video Conferencing, motorized screen, projector, Blu-ray player, mic input, Digital/Analog Laptop inputs , Local PC and recessed inceiling speakers.

Zone Two: has a 55” LED screen with another motorized screen, projector, mic input and recessed inceiling speakers.

Zone Three: has a 55” LED screen with recessed inceiling speakers.

  

We have put sensors in the partition tracks to automatically link the rooms that are open to each other creating an extremely simple user interface on the touch panels.

 

Training Areas

2  X Computer training rooms with projector, Blu-ray player, mic input, Digital/Analog Laptop inputs, Local PC and recessed inceiling speakers. 

   

Features

  • System is integrated with the building alarm system to turn of all the AV equipment once the alarm is set. Once the alarm is disarmed then preset monitors around the building will turn on; saving power and bulb life.
  • Digital Media Laptop inputs will sense and convert VGA, Display Port, and DVI to HDMI for high definition digital distribution.
  • Digital Media also allows for quick switching between multiple HDCP HDMI inputs.
  • Fibre optic solution allows a reliable high bandwidth signal path over long distances with the benefit of being immune to electrical and RF interference. 
  • Local Mouse / Keyboard control automatically switches between local PC's and Laptops when the associated source is selected on the touch panel.
  • Crestron Network is compleatly isolated from corporate network. 

 

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