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Software solution uses standard PCs and monitors to make video walls accessible to businesses and agencies of all sizes.
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Hiperwall Inc. (Irvine, CA) has expanded the availability of its video-wall system, which features software that allows non-technical users to easily manage the display of video and data feeds. Used to view large quantities of information at a single glance on a “wall” of monitors, video-wall technology has previously been considered the exclusive domain of large organizations because of high costs and complexity. However, this software-centric solution requires ordinary PCs and monitors and a standard Ethernet network, making the technology accessible to small-to-medium businesses and state and local government agencies for the first time.
The system displays still images up to 1GB resolution or larger, HD videos, HD streaming content and PC applications. The system enables multiple feeds to be displayed on the wall simultaneously and allows the user to reposition and resize each feed easily. A feed can be scaled up for viewing on several monitors or the entire wall instantly depending upon the user’s discretion.
Suitable applications include command-and-control rooms at government, military, utility, transportation installations as well as use on trading floors, and in digital signage, medical/scientific imaging, aerial imaging, broadcast and fleet management.
In addition to locating and sizing data feeds on the video wall, the software allows various, custom-display configurations, including the ability to:
• Reproduce on the video wall everything on the screen of any network-attached PC;
• Designate any portion of the wall to cycle through any sequence of images, videos, streams or virtually any data from the PC;
• Rotate any piece of content to any orientation;
• Adjust the transparency of any piece of content from fully opaque to fully transparent, particularly helpful for visual overlays; and
• Adjust the color shading of any content.
The Hiperwall system can work with LCD, plasma, CRT or rear-projection displays, of any size and resolution, as well as any PC that meets the minimum requirements of today’s standard PC, including dual-core process, 1GB RAM, GbE Ethernet and 256MB video memory. The PCs can be connected using almost any layer 2-Gigabit switch.
Having begun in 2005 as a research project at UC Irvine’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Hiperwall was designed to be a collaborative visualization platform that can display any type of content in real time. The Hiperwall technology was profiled by Apple Inc. on its website in 2006 and featured on CNN in 2007, and was subsequently commercialized. In early 2009, Hiperwall signed an OEM agreement with Samsung Electronics that allowed Samsung to distribute and support Hiperwall’s video-wall technology via its network of worldwide sales and marketing subsidiaries.
The Hiperwall system is now available through VARs, network integrators, system integrators, IT consultants, AV integrators and AV rental companies.
For more information about the Hiperwall system or about becoming an authorized reseller, call (888) 520-1760 or email info@hiperwall.com.
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