National Grid
Case study
National Grid (NG) dispatches and transmits electricity currently generated by over 128 generators to suppliers who meet the demands of over 28 million customers throughout England and Wales.
Since April 2005 NG have expanded their operation to include Scotland and this has necessitated an upgrade and expansion of the existing facilities to monitor and track the usage of electricity.
Work on site commenced in September 2004 with the provision of a temporary screen being installed in front of the existing mimic wall and two Barco projectors were used to provide a continuous display of the network status. The extensive work involved removing the original equipment and building of the new wall and during this time the control room remained in full 24/7 operation negating the need for any operators to be re-located. This was a significant factor to the National Grid.
Before the new wall could be built TEW, Barco’s partner, undertook an ergonomic review of the room and decided that the new wall should, in fact, be slightly curved. The curved wall had implications on the room infrastructure and design and meant quite a few changes to the building layout that TEW eagerly undertook, again, causing minimal disruption to the operation of the room.
The new video wall comprises of 40 (10 x4) Barco Atlas 67” rear projection cubes using state of the art dual lamp technology. Each cube has SXGA native resolution - 1280 x 1024 pixels. The total wall resolution is 12800 x 4096 pixels.
TEW’s relationship with the NG goes back nearly 20 years since they supplied the original mosaic mimic wall during the late eighties. In 1996 four 50” cubes were incorporated into the mosaic diagram and this was increased to nine in 1999 which resulted in a dynamic display area of 3 x 2.75meters.
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| Date | April, 2005 | ||||||
| Location | UNITED KINGDOM | ||||||
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