Galileo Delivers
Army Corps of Engineers delivers a captivating visitor experience
- By Michael Callahan
- Mar 01, 2020
The Army Corps of Engineer’s
Engineer Research
and Development Center
(ERDC) in Vicksburg,
Mississippi recently enhanced
its headquarters building. The objective
of this upgrade was to educate visitors
on the role of the ERDC and about
government research.
ERDC enlisted the services of M3 Technology
Group, an audio-visual integrator
based in Nashville, Tennessee, to create a
unique audio-visual experience not seen in
other government facilities.
To maximize appeal to visitors, M3
created a dramatic atrium display environment.
The new display environment contains
an immersive pavilion and mosaic
video walls all driven by RGB Spectrum’s
Galileo video wall processors. M3 Technology
chose the Galileo processors for
their unmatched display layout flexibility,
ability to output to multiple walls and superior
image quality.
The Galileo processors receives feeds
from digital signage players, media servers
and PCs with custom-created content.
In the immersive pavilion, a single
Galileo processor outputs this content in
portrait orientation to two OLED video
walls; a 2 x 5 video inside the structure
and a 1 x 4 video wall on its exterior. Two
additional Galileo processors drive 32-
foot high, 15-monitor mosaic video walls
presented vertically.
The mosaic video walls posed particular
challenges. First, the images feeding
the displays needed to be rotated in a variety
of angles. Secondly, the processors
had to support two different display sizes,
55 and 45-inches, intermixed in the digital
signage mosaic. Thus, the processors had
to scale the output for each display and
properly align them to form a seamless
image. The result is stunning. Galileo produced
a seamless, contiguous visual across
the multi-screen mosaic with dazzling visual
appeal.
The Galileo processor supports inputs
and outputs at up to 4K resolution. The
processor offers the flexibility to output in
rotated and portrait orientation, and display
content in any size windows anywhere
on the video wall. Display layouts can be
changed instantly to focus on particular areas
of interest. Operators can select preset
display layouts, switch and route sources,
and size and position windows.
The Galileo processor works with all
types of video walls: an image overlap
capability is available for projector-based
video walls, custom timings accommodate
the special resolutions of LED walls and
bezel compensation optimizes viewing
with LCD video walls.
The Galileo processor delivers real-time
throughput and superb image quality, unlike
other PC-based systems that can drop
frames or cause image tearing. Its solidstate
drive and dual-redundant power supplies
add an extra level of reliability.
Advanced features include a unique
“wall mimic,” whereby the entire video
wall or any region of interest can be encoded
and streamed for live viewing elsewhere,
HDCP content protection, scripting
for third party system control and
automatic IP stream discovery for RGB
Spectrum’s Zio AV-over-IP encoders.
The Galileo processor is the ideal solution
for conference rooms, security operations
centers, control rooms, command
centers, entertainment and sports venues,
boardrooms, education,
corporate lobbies and
digital signage.
This article originally appeared in the March 2020 issue of Security Today.