Advantech is working with Matrox Graphics on a video wall system designed for Matrox’s Mura MPX video wall controller boards.
The system incorporates industrial serverboards and chassis from Matrox and Advantech Video Wall Controllers.
It is designed for 8-output and 20-output video walls, and will be used in control rooms for factory automation, transportation, surveillance, digital signage, video conference.
“With technology advances, video wall performance continues to improve while total cost of ownership goes down, making video walls the fastest-growing area in the IT and digital electronics industries," said Franz Wei, v-p of Advantech Embedded Systems. Advantech has developed a series of industrial serverboards, chassis and pre-configured systems (AVS series products) supporting two to five Mura MPX cards.
The AVS-540 pre-configured system or ASMB-822 serverboard with five PCIe x16 slots can support five Mura MPX cards, allowing for a maximum of twenty video source inputs and display outputs corresponding to twenty monitors.Eight of the inputs could be connected to surveillance system NVR machines or directly to CCTV cameras that monitor the working fields or important equipment; ten connected to operator workstations running production management, process management, access control software programs; and the other two connected to the servers running various SCADA software.
All information can be immediately displayed on the video wall.
The Mura MPX series, featuring Gen 2.0 PCI Express x16 connection interface, provides up to a maximum of four inputs and four outputs on a single card that can capture a variety of input sources then scale, rotate, position and display them across the video wall canvas in real-time.
Video source feeds may include live videos from surveillance cameras, satellite signal receivers, high resolution HDCP-encrypted content from Blu–ray players, software operating screens of PCs or servers.
Users can configure the video display wall with great flexibility, opening one or multiple sessions on each display or spanning a single spreadsheet across several monitors—depending on the focus requirements of any given situation.
