Eyevis: supports public institution motorway operation in Italy

Eyevis: supports public institution motorway operation in Italy. ANAS S.p.A. (Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade), with headquarters in Rome, is the public body responsible for managing the operation and maintenance of the national public road and motorway network in Italy. Its 6,700 employees supervise a network of approx. 27,000 km.

The Italian motorways are operated by 24 different licensed companies and ANAS is the public institution which controls these companies, directly subordinate to the Italian Ministry of Transport.

Under the “EasyWay” project, the key implementation programme for Europe-wide ITS deployment on main Trans-European road network (TERN) corridors, ANAS installed 19 new control rooms all over Italy for the operation and survey of its network. For the visualisation of these modern ITS applications (video cameras, telematics systems, etc.), ANAS chose German large screen technology by eyevis.

By the end of 2008, a total of 100 rear-projection cubes were built up to video walls of different sizes in these 19 new control centres. The main advantage of these DLP cubes is their suitability for 24/7 continuous operation; a decisive feature for mission-critical applications such as traffc control.

Additional reliability is provided through the double-lamp system, which automatically switches to a spare lamp in case one lamp breaks.

Building Blocks

The cubes can be combined to almost seamless video walls of any size. The small gap of less than 0.6 mm allows a coherent desktop surface on which any video or data signal can be displayed in any size or position. Each control room also uses a netpix graphics controller which gathers the inputs of the various signal types and creates the combined desktop over the cubes of a video wall.

The netpix controllers are equipped with the newly-developed eyevis Netpix IP Decoder Boards that provide simultaneous hardware decoding of several IP video streams in real-time, independent of codec and manufacturer.

Convenient control of the entire system is guaranteed thanks to the eyecon wall management software. This allows not only the intuitive operation of the system, but also provides numerous features and functions enhancing the effcient use of the system enormously. For example, window confgurations can be automated, alarms of any kind can be integrated, and the signals can be captured automatically.

The 19 installations comprise the following components from the Company:

• 100 x EC-50-SXT+-DL 
• (DLP rear-projection cubes with SXGA+ resolution, 50” screen diagonal and automatic double-lamp system)
• 21 x Netpix graphics controller 
• 21 x eyecon wall management software 
• 21 x ECS eyecon control server 

Contact:

Eyevis GmbH,
Reutlingen, Germany
Tel.: + 49 7121 43303 0
Fax: + 49 7121 43303 22
info@eyevis.de
www.eyevis.de