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November 22nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
‘Largest digital video wall in the southern hemisphere’
Australia’s largest digital video wall comprises 100 LCD screens
The latest weapon to combat fires in NSW – an audio visual information centre with what is being described as “the largest digital video wall in the Southern Hemisphere” comprising 100 46-inch (116.8cm) LCD screens – has been completed.
The wall, based at the NSW Rural Fire Service headquarters in Homebush, was installed in under seven weeks and comes just in time for the bushfire season.
The 100 NEC 46-inch LCD energy saving screens are supported by 14 computer systems, four dedicated servers and 32 digital video inputs including digital television, Sky News and a helicopter-mounted camera system which can transmit video from the fire front back to the command centre video wall.
Telstra also has a mammoth video wall at its Global Operations Centre, based in Victoria. According to tech site iTnews, the centre Telstra’s video wall is in monitors “234,000 network elements and more than eight million kilometres of fibre”.
There was some dispute over whose installation was the largest. Telstra’s media spokesman joked on Twitter that he’d have to break out the ruler, saying Telstra’s GOC wall was 24m x 2.5m (60 square metres). But NEC said the Rural Fire Service one wasn’t a rear projection system like Telstra’s and that it was in fact bigger – 16.5m x 16.5m (272.25 square metres).
NSW Rural Fire Service’s wall will be used for numerous purposes, but primarily as an information source to assist in organising firefighting teams and to develop emergency response plans, according to the technology company NEC, who helped install and design the centre along with Eo Design, an audio visual design and installation company.
In the past, NEC said the NSW Royal Fire Service used four projectors screening the information onto a blank wall, plus large stickers outlining emergency contact details below the projection. That solution, NEC said, limited the amount of information able to be displayed, was slow at uploading new information and restricted the types of data able to be presented.
The facility will also be used to monitor media coverage during fire response times, to assess the various statements being delivered by the media and determine what public information the Rural Fire Service needs to further provide when making formal statements to advise the public and the government on vital information, the technology company said.
“By introducing a state-of-the-art video wall into the information centre, the Royal Fire Service can now access and share incident information, and monitor weather data and bushfire movement in real time, ” said NSW Royal Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.
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