ANAS Chooses eyevis Technology for Motorway Operation in Italy
04 December 2008
Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade (ANAS) is the public body responsible for managing the national road network in Italy, with headquarters in Rome. ANAS’ duty is the operation and maintenance of public roads and motorways. ANAS has 6,700 employees and operates a network of roads and motorways of approximately 27,000km.
The Italian motorways are operated by 24 different licensed companies. ANAS is the public institution which controls these companies and is a direct subordinate to the Italian Ministry of Transport.
In the turn of the “EasyWay” project, the key implementation programme for a Europe-wide ITS deployment on main Trans-European road network (TERN) corridors, ANAS installed 19 new control rooms all over Italy for the operation and survey of its network. For the visualisation of these modern ITS applications (video cameras, telematics systems), ANAS chose German large-screen technology by eyevis. By the end of 2008, a total of 100 rear-projection cubes were built-up to video walls of different sizes in these 19 new control centres.
The main advantage of these DLP™ cubes is their suitability for 24/7 continuous operation; a decisive feature for mission-critical applications such as traffic control. Additional reliability is provided through the automatic double-lamp system, which automatically switches to a spare lamp in case one lamp breaks. The cubes can be combined to almost seamless video walls of any size. The small gap of less than 0.6mm allows a coherent desktop surface on which any video or data signal can be displayed in any size or position.
Each control room also applies a netpix graphics controller. This device provides the inputs for the various signal types and creates the combined desktop over the cubes of a video wall. The netpix controllers are equipped with the newly developed eyevis Netpix IP decoder boards. These new boards provide simultaneous hardware decoding of several IP video streams in real-time, independent from codecs and manufacturer.
The comfortable control of the entire system is guaranteed thanks to the eyecon wall management software. eyecon allows not only the intuitive operation of the system, but also provides numerous features and functions enhancing the efficient use of the system enormously. For example, window configurations can be automated, alarms of any kind can be integrated, and the signals can be captured automatically.
The 19 installations comprise following components from eyevis:
- 100 x EC-50-SXT+-DL (DLP rear-projection cubes with SXGA+ resolution, 50in screen, diagonal and automatic double-lamp system)
- 21 x Netpix graphics controller
- 21 x eyecon wall management software
- 21 x ECS eyecon control server
