CASE STUDY – Audio Visual Systems – City of Salisbury

The Initial Problem/Need

The City of Salisbury embarked on a project to build the Burton Park Clubrooms. They wanted to install an audio visual system that was able to provide for a cross section of tenants, some sporting orientated and some corporate. They also wanted a system that was high quality and utilised high definition signal reticulation, rather than standard. They also wanted to be sure that the system was capable of providing future connectivity such as Ethernet and other audio visual conversions such as HDMI over UTP. This called for a innovative design which provided flexibility. Enter A-COM Solutions.

The Solution

An original design concept was put together by an electrical engineering firm, which was used to form the basis for a final system design put together by A-COM Solutions. The A-COM Solutions design integrated television, Pay-TV, High Definition Playback and Computer presentations across a series of large scale flat screen monitors and a large screen projection system. The final design was able to reticulate full high-definition video and analogue audio to each monitor and projector. Similarly, through the use of scaling equipment, computer presentations are able to be watched both on the big projection screen and the LCD monitors. Likewise, TV and DVD/BluRay playback was able to be watched on the big screen. Actually, it didn’t matter what possible permutation was required, the Matrix switching system was able to provide it – simply and easily. Sound was catered for by a separate pro-audio system consisting of internal and external speakers, radio microphones and wired microphones.

How The Solution Was Implemented

During the course of building construction, A-COM Solutions technicians ran all of the necessary cables for all the audio visual equipment. This included installation of a 18RU wall mounted audio visual cabinet to house all future AV equipment such as scaling equipment, switching equipment, set top boxes, DVD and Blu Ray playback devices, Pro-audio equipment, and television distribution equipment.

AV wall plates were placed behind each of the displays (TV’s) and cable looms were constructed for the projection equipment. As a fail-safe measure, dual UTP cables were run from the central cabinet out to each audio visual device to enable future connections via UTP cable.

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