2010 Best Government AV Project (State & Local)
When building a situation room for New York's City Hall, AVI-SPL and its team had to work within the confines of a 200-year-old historic building. Control systems were key to success.
AV Integrator • AVI-SPL
After 9/11, New York City built a state-of-the-art Office of Emergency Management. In spring 2009, it christened a similarly high-tech situation room to give the city’s mayor an integrated view of video sources from around the city, secure videoconferencing with federal authorities, and more.
Integrator AVI-SPL, consultant Shen Milsom Wilke, and programmer PepperDash Technology had to work within the confines of a 199-year-old historic city hall, meaning 15 10-foot-high equipment racks that contain everything from the Crestron RACK2 control systems, to a Tandberg VTC codec, to Contemporary Research tuners and an Extron CrossPoint 48x48 matrix router, had to be located in an adjacent room.
Crestron touch panels route video to a multiwindow, 10-foot-wide videowall composed of Barco fDR+70-DL video cubes—no small feat considering the variety of video routers feeding into the wall processor. And for added ease-of-use, Crestron UPX-2 Universal Presentation Processors and DTT DualTouch panels allow users to annotate what they’re seeing onscreen.



















