Collaborative Spaces for Intertek

The Minerals Expo room had no single mode of operation. On any given day it might host a video conference, a client presentation, a training session, or several of those at once.

The sources reflected that: media players, PCs and live CCTV feeds, all needing to reach the LED wall. A conventional dual-screen setup would have forced every session into the same fixed layout — one full image, or two halves.

Audio had to hold up both in the room and at the far end of a conference, and the whole system had to be operable by Intertek's own people without a technician present.

Every system was customised in liaison with Intertek representatives.

• LED wall sources are handled by a professional Extron display processor, allowing content to be arranged across the wall in any configuration rather than fixed halves or quarters.

• Audio is reinforced with Bose in-ceiling speakers and a Yamaha amplifier, an Extron digital signal processor, a Shure ceiling microphone tile and a wireless handheld and lapel microphone system — all delivered over Dante audio networking.

• Video conferencing runs on a Poly G10-T system, split across the LED screen in a dual-screen preset and paired with PTZ cameras.

• HDMI inputs sit in floor boxes, with enough of them to bring Intertek's media players, PCs and live CCTV feeds to the wall in any picture-in-picture arrangement.

• Control is via a professional Extron automation system with a roaming iPad touch interface.

The LED wall can be divided into whatever configuration a session calls for, not just one image, two halves or quarters — so the room genuinely changes use rather than pretending to.

Eight dongle connections can be spread across the wall at once, which is what makes it a working collaborative space rather than a presentation screen. A professional audio commissioner tuned the system so it performs both in the room and to the far end of a conference.