Serving as the nerve center for its recreational, intramural, and club sports on the campus, the new University of California, Riverside (UCR) Student Recreation Center houses a vast array of health and sporting activities designed to help its students have fun and stay fit. With so many options available, the school needed a way to showcase events, share news, stream sports and games in a visually, high-tech format. The perfect solution: a Barco LCD video wall, of course!


Barco with AV integrator High-Tech Electric and Almo Professional A/V created a low-profile, versatile media wall system that enables the University to broadcast live news, sporting events, recreation activity schedules and more, with guaranteed consistent image quality and 24/7 reliability. A highly affordable video wall among large-scale visual displays, it is also economical to operate thanks to its energy-efficiency, low maintenance and minimal maintenance.

Comprised of 49 OverView KVD LCD displays and powered by a pre-configured and easy-to-use TransForm ECU-110 controller, the near-seamless video wall features automatically calibrated, continuous color and brightness enabled by Barco's exclusive Sense X software technology. Administrators can create a multitude of layouts, controlling content remotely via tablets and smartphones - without impacting the university network.

The video wall's remote power supply is especially unique in that it can be located on a rack mount system 100 m away from the wall for easy servicing, while also reducing the heat/load conversion on the panels themselves. "We were the first to use the Barco KVD LCD displays with their ingenious remote power supply, which worked immediately and delivered beyond expectations," commented James Gulke, Project Lead at High-Tech Electric.

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