by Eclipse Digital | 10 Feb 2016 |
Costain (international engineering and construction group) were awarded an eight year contract by the National Grid to carry out tunnelling under London for improved cabling. This tunnelling contract, worth approximately £200 million, will help meet increased energy flows across the city of London and it will also support increasing electricity demand, including the new Crossrail and the replacement of existing buried cables in London.
Costain wanted to show to staff within the National Grid project office how the project was progressing in real time and also be able to display project information in the Nation Grid Energy Education Centre. They approached Eclipse Digital Media with the idea and tasked us with implementing a real time solution that meets their needs.
We designed and developed a digital signage content package that would show the drilling rigs working their way under London, in real time using data.
The content package pulls in live data from the TIM (Tunnel Information Management) software which uses Google Maps to display it.
The real time data is displayed via AV displays within two National Grid / Costain project offices in London and one AV display mounted within the Energy Education Centre.
The digital signage network runs using a main publisher unit with two subscribers mounted behind each screen to display the live drilling information.
by Eclipse Digital | 10 Feb 2016 |
Elliott have been in business for over 100 years and are the go to company for the design, manufacture and service of their critical turbomachinery. Elliott is wholly owned by Ebara Corporation headquartered in Haneda, Japan and have manufacturing facilities worldwide, with their primary locations being Jeannette, Pennsylvania, USA and in Sodegaura, Chiba, Japan. Elliott maintain a global network of service facilities with field service engineers and technicians in locations such as UK, Switzerland, Italy, UAE and Bahrain.
Elliott Turbomachinery UK wanted to enhance their existing Digital Signage installation at their offices in Reading, by placing two screens in the main reception area to deliver core information to visitors and staff alike.
The core requirements for the digital signage project were:
- ability to update screens from a central location
- have different content on each screen
- display health & safety data in a graphical format in real time
- provide staff with different levels of access to certain zones of information to update content on a regular basis without the ability to alter the core signage design
- scaleable to allow for expansion to other locations
Eclipse Digital installed a ONELAN publisher, rack mounted in the network / comms room together with a ONELAN subscriber to drive one 55″ Full HD LED Samsung Display. The existing ONELAN media player driving another 55″ Full HD LED Samsung Display was configured to subscriber status to poll content from the new Publisher.
Two channels of content were designed and developed, one to show welcome messaging and corporate information and the other to deliver the health and safety graphical data and daily updates. Within each channel Eclipse configured specific zones with ‘ad hoc’ user access whereby certain users can log in to update just that zone of content, without altering the core layout.
Eclipse Digital have provided Elliott with ONELAN Data Collection Engine (DCE) software so they have the facility to pull in data from either Excel, XML or SQL to display graphically, in real time.
by Eclipse Digital | 10 Feb 2016 |
Covance is one of the largest and comprehensive drug development services companies in the world with more than 11,000 employees in 60 countries. Covance has helped biotech and pharmaceutical companies develop one-third of all prescription medicines on the market today.
Covance UK, were looking at a streamlined way to communicate with staff and visitors in their new UK head office based in Maidenhead. They wanted to keep them informed of corporate information, national news and local traffic as well as being able to internally broadcast live, secure video presentations from their CEO in America.
Eclipse Digita Media supplied one NTB publisher, three subscriber units and an IPTV system.
One subscriber is used to display welcome messages, local traffic and corporate information on an AV display in reception, the two other subscribers are used to display company information, local traffic and live BBC news to screens in the staff restaurant area, helping to keep the staff informed of news at all times.
Two AV displays are also used to display the live, secure video link from their head office in the US via the IPTV system, negating the need for all of the staff to leave the office to watch the presentation.
by Eclipse Digital | 10 Feb 2016 |
Solus is the UK’s leading supplier of Garden, Leisure and Home Décor products that has been in business for over 30 years. With several large offices in the UK, Solus are the main supplier of key brands to many garden and leisure retailers across the UK and overseas.
Solus required a Digital Signage system at their corporate head office to communicate more efficiently with staff about sales figures and general corporate information. They also required the ability to stream live news onto the screens as well as display in the latest industry news to keep the staff informed of events that could influence their business.
Eclipse Digital installed a ONELAN publisher that included a TV card. This publisher supplies content to a ceiling mounted 60″ screen in their corporate head office.
The digital signage content pulls in live RSS feed information from a leading gardening industry website, live BBC News and local weather information to keep the staff updated about influences that could have an effect on their business.
There is another zone that is specifically for corporate information and in the main zone, live sales data is displayed in graphical format to show the staff how they are performing in real time.
