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Bell Helicopter HQ lands digital signage video wall
A digital signage video wall is welcoming visitors to the new headquarters of Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, according to an announcement from German display provider eyevis.
August 11, 2015
A digital signage video wall is welcoming visitors to the new headquarters of Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, according to an announcement from German display provider eyevis.
Bell Helicopter implemented a convex video wall consisting of 48 eyevis omniSHAPES, which offer a high-bright resolution of 8192 x 4608 pixels on an 8.4-square-meter canvas, to greet visitors in the main lobby.
According to the announcement, the new headquarters building of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. in Fort Worth was a redevelopment of the existing corporate campus. The design of the building was already completed and the construction had begun, when Bell decided to install a convex video wall in its main lobby. So a video wall solution had to be found that could fit in the outer wall of an already planned elliptical architectural element in the lobby. Datacom Design Group LLC, which was responsible for the design of the building's AV systems, picked the eyevis omniSHAPES exclusively distributed in North America through Ayon Visual Solutions in Tucker, Georgia.
"Datacom selected the eyevis omniSHAPE because it was the only video wall cube system that can be configured into convex shapes and fit the elliptical architectural element appropriately," said Richard Bumpass, consultant at Datacom Design Group, in the announcement.
The omniSHAPES video wall is used in the lobby primarily to display marketing information and the internally produced Rotorvision content, according to eyevis. Additionally there are local signal inputs so that the non-secure lobby space can be used for presentations. The local inputs contain multiple source signals that run over fiber optic cables to the netPIX graphics controller from eyevis. These include a Blu-ray player, TV tuner and a content manager that enables RSS feeds and scheduling of content played. In order to achieve a future-proof system the whole signal transmission had to be 4K ready, which could be realized through a netPIX graphics controller from eyevis with professional input and output cards.
"We are very proud to be involved in such a magnificent project by a world-leading brand [such] as Bell Helicopter," said Rainer Link, director of international sales at eyevis. "With our unique omniSHAPES solution we were able to fulfil the demanding requirements of the project. The new video wall will surely bring their company message across to visitors and employees passing the video wall in their splendid new headquarters building."
