Many video walls show critical information to help maintain the safety of a community or the productivity of a manufacturing plant or to monitor the behavior of complex networks and systems. The data and video feeds on these video walls are essential to the success of their organizations.
So how do we make sure your video wall content is available when it is needed?
Hiperwall’s HiperFailSafe approach to keeping your system operational even if a controller fails is part of the solution. Hiperwall’s distributed architecture means a failure of a display computer only affects a portion of your video wall, and the rest keeps running normally.
These are great solutions, but we needed to address data and source reliability problems as well.
In most systems, if the video capture device sending an important stream to the video wall fails or if a PC sending a data feed or a browser showing a dashboard fails, that content disappears. Throwing more hardware and software at the problem works by providing redundant feeds, but it doesn’t make operations with them seamless.
We developed HiperFailSafe Content to make sure your important data or video content can be shown even in the face of source failures. As long as there is an alternate source available, HiperFailSafe Content will show it if the primary source is missing. It is easy to have an alternate PC send the mission critical dashboard to the video wall, then the original plus the alternate can be combined into a HiperFailSafe Content item with priority to define their order. If the item being shown disappears, the first available alternate is shown in the same place(s) on the video wall. No operator intervention is required, and the integrity of the content is maintained.
As another example, if a news feed is part of the information needed in a public safety control room, and that feed is from an HDMI capture device, an alternate can be a screen capture computer sending the web version of that or a different news feed. HiperFailSafe Content objects are not limited to just two items – you can have alternates to your alternates, and even finally a static image warning that all the sources have disconnected to make the system operators aware. If the original content feed reconnects, it will replace whatever alternate is being shown, again without operator intervention.
How much does this very helpful capability cost?
HiperFailSafe Content has been available to all Hiperwall customers since version 7.1 and is available for no additional cost. We feel the feature is so valuable and important to our customers that everyone with modern Hiperwall systems should be able to use it to make their system even more powerful and reliable.
Contact Hiperwall, your video wall reseller, or visit the Sharp NEC Display Solutions exhibit at ISE2024 in Barcelona Jan 30 to Feb 2.
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