A large eyevis video wall manages security at the Imam Al-Abbas mosque in Karbala

A video wall composed of 27 eyevis rear projection cubes, from where the images captured by the hundreds of surveillance cameras installed in the Karbala mosque are managed.

The Al-Attaba Al-Abbasiya Mosque in Karbala (Irak) It is considered by Shia Muslims as one of the most sacred places. Dedicated to Imam Al-Abbas, The sanctuary is visited by millions of visitors every year and is attended by more than 3.000 professionals and tens of thousands of volunteers.

A holy place that is also the target of a large number of terrorist threats, which is why they decided to provide the building with security measures that would protect both those who work there and the faithful..

In 2014, The facilities were equipped with a closed circuit television system (CCTV), composed of hundreds of surveillance cameras, and a powerful and intelligent video analysis system has been implemented iOmniscient who is able to manage the large crowd that comes. For this, the mosque has been equipped with facial recognition applications, people counting, crowd control, abandoned object detection, license plate recognition…

The management of all this security infrastructure is carried out from a control center, operation 24×7, in which a large video wall has been installed consisting of 27 rear projection hubs eyevis EC-56-LWXT-1000 DLP.

“We needed a display solution that was capable of displaying images collected by hundreds of cameras and that could be mounted in a limited space that is difficult to maintain.. Besides, we needed reliability and great resolution. “eyevis’ 1,920×1,200 pixel DLP solution was the answer to our requirements”, comments Firas Abbas, project Manager en Al-Moashour Ing.

The EC-56-LWXT-1000 DLP is a modular solution that features a screen diagonal of 56 inches and WUXGA resolution (1920×1200 pixels). It uses LED technology and is specially designed for applications that require reliable operation 24×7, as is the case of the Karbala mosque.

As it is a large format video wall, composed of a large number of screens, The assembly has been carried out on an infrastructure that moves on a servomotor that facilitates maintenance.

This video wall has been installed together with an ACT-CommBoard eyevis for automatic color tracking, solution completed with Eyecon V4 software, that allows you to control large format screens like this one, and the netPIX video wall management system 4800.

Eyevis worked on this project with the companies that had been responsible for installing the video analysis system, iOmniscient y Al-Moashour Co, information technology pioneer in Iraq.