The New South Wales Fire Service Control Room Features QuadView Multiple Window Display Technology
The New South Wales Fire Service Control Room Features QuadView Multiple Window Display Technology
November 22, 2005 Alameda, CA - The New South Wales (NSW) Fire Service in Sydney, Australia, recently opened its new control room featuring two RGB Spectrum's QuadView® XL windowing processors.
The goal was to replace felt-tip pens and paper maps by a state-of-the-art real-time information system. About 30 fire control centers across the state currently connect to the operations system over a wide area network, which will soon be expanded to 80 centers. Two QuadView windowing processors feed the large 1x2 projector array. Each processor displays four high-resolution computer sources consisting of geographic information systems (GIS) maps, satellite images and weather data, or video inputs consisting of multimedia presentations stored on CDs and DVDs.
The NSW Fire Service contracted ELECTROBOARD, a leading audio-visual integration company in Australia. ELECTROBOARD chose RGB Spectrum's QuadView multi-input, multi-window display processor for the control room viewing system. According to Damian Bolton, Marketing Manager at ELECTROBOARD, "The QuadView processor was an obvious choice. It has excellent image quality and allows displaying multiple high-resolution computer sources at up to 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution in real-time. The ease of use of the QuadView greatly facilitated the installation and was helpful in keeping us on schedule".
The QuadView processor combines high-resolution computer images and videos, and feeds them to both a video projector and several screens. It is the latest of a new generation of windowing systems, providing the most powerful image processing available and outstanding image quality. The QuadView accepts up to sixteen sources, four of which can be displayed simultaneously, and supports high resolution RGB, HDTV 1080i/720p, S-Video, component, and composite video, and optional DVI inputs. Each input can be independently sized and positioned anywhere on the screen, as well as panned and zoomed to emphasize particular areas of interest. Leading-edge features include smooth zooming and panning, fast image processing with dynamic window sizing and instant display setting changes, built-in Web-based graphical user interface, dual RGB/DVI outputs, titling, borders, fade effects, and colored backgrounds.
About the New South Wales Fire Service:
The New South Wales Fire Service is part of the New South Wales Fire Brigade (NSWFB), responsible for managing fire emergencies in the major Australian cities, metropolitan areas and towns. It also protects the State from hazardous material incidents and by extension of this capability, the consequences of terrorism, and supports other government agencies during and after bush fires, storms, floods, landslides, building collapses, earthquakes and other emergency situations.
The NSWFB has a central office in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, a logistics support center at Greenacre, operational communication centers at Alexandria, Newcastle, Wollongong and Katoomba, a training college at Alexandria, and a network of 338 fire stations across the State and a fleet of 882 vehicles. For more information about the New South Wales Fire Brigade, visit http://www.nswfb.nsw.gov.au/.
About ELECTROBOARD:
ELECTROBOARD is Australia's leading audio-visual integration company and is recognized nationwide for its outstanding products and services. Having strong relationships with the world's leading suppliers, we offer innovative audio-visual, conferencing and digital signage solutions to the corporate, government and education markets.
Committed to quality of service to our customers, ELECTROBOARD can offer you and your organization:
Extensive Audio Visual Experience
Complete Product Range
Experienced Account Management
System Integration Capabilities
National Coverage
Comprehensive Service & Support
Complete Finance Options
Quality Assurance
For more information about ELECTROBOARD, visit http://www.electroboard.com.au/.
RGB Spectrum® is a leading designer and manufacturer of videographic and multimedia hardware subsystems. Products include the View(TM) family of video windowing systems, the RGB/Videolink® line of scan converters, the DGy(TM) digital recording system, Quadra® universal scaler and synchronizer, SynchroMaster® keyers and overlayers and SuperWall(TM), ComputerWall® and MediaWall® multi-screen display controllers. RGB Spectrum is based in Alameda, California, and can be reached at 510-814-7000 and on the internet at www.rgb.com.
