In Sydney, Australia, a giant command and control LED display was installed in its nearly completed new Rail Operations Centre (ROC). The LED display is claimed to be the world’s largest control room display with the largest number of pixels, according to the supplier NanoLumens, a U.S. based LED display provider.

Critical Room Solutions (CRS), a specialist in command and control room installations, and Digital Place Solutions (DPS), have commenced discussions with Sydney Trains in 2017 to determine the display solution to allow the new control center staff to effectively monitor all 178 stations on the Sydney Trains rail network.

They have selected NanoLumens as the solutions provider from design in the initial phase to the final installation. NanoLumens set up a 1.6mm Performance Series LED display measures 32m x 3.6m and contains 41 million pixels, which is the largest number of processors ever installed in an LED display, said the company.

(Image: NanoLumens)

The super fine resolution design provides an entire display resolution of 19,200 pixels wide by 2,160 pixels high, equivalent to 20 windows of native Full HD resolution or 5 windows of 4K resolution, all without the need for scaling.

Tony Eid, Sydney Trains Executive Director, said, “The Operational Visual Display Screen (OVDS) plays a key role in providing the control centre real-time information to make informed decisions with train operations, incident and customer management,” Eid continued. “The OVDS, now dubbed the WOW board due to its sheer size and stature, is the first of its kind used in Australian control centres.”