‘Trafik Stockholm’ are responsible for traffic management on Stockholm’s city streets and on the state roads of Stockholm County. They have just equipped their control room with a new Electrosonic display system in an attempt to handle the information they receive more efficiently.
By interpreting data from cameras, sensors and information systems, the organisation hopes to reduce congestion and the number of accidents on Stockholm’s roads. With this in mind, clarity was key.
The actual display is approximately 2m high and 11m wide, and is made up of 16 Mitsubishi 67 inch SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) projection “cubes”. The display receives its inputs from an Electrosonic VN-QUANTUM(TM) videowall image processor, which Electrosonic say has the ability to integrate functionality and performance in a single 6U frame. At Trafik Stockholm’s HQ, 36 real-time video inputs, 2 real-time RGB inputs, and 8 additional RGB inputs can be shown simultaneously on 19 high resolution displays.
Founded in 1964, Electrosonic are confident that the system is intuitive to use and that it will allow operators to move quickly to the most relevant images on the overview display.
The company see the Trafik Stockholm installation as highly significant. It is, Electrosinic says, “a site which exploits the combined strengths of VN-QUANTUM (image processor) VN-MATRIX (real time network codec for high resolution images) and VN GLIMPSE (lossless spatial encoding of graphic images for transmission over networks).”