International music festival, BelgiumA mobile, networked visualization system

to help keep festival-goers safe

How do you ensure the security at a three-day music festival where over 180,000

music lovers gather to party to the beats of the world’s greatest artists, on several

stages? In 2015, Barco helped one of the world’s largest music festivals keep their

guests safe, by setting up a visualization system in their temporary command center.

At the heart of the set-up: Barco’s full, network-centric control room solution. Split

over three control rooms, it combined the images and data coming from diverse

sources to then create on-the-fly views, distribute these and visualize them. So that

everyone involved in security had all eyes on what was happening in the festival

grounds.

Key benefits:

• Time-to-decision 10x quicker

• Better decisions (enriched content)

• Simple/ easy-to-use (common interfaces)

= easy to re-use concept for other events

• Improved command and control

• Optimization of manpower

• Cost-efficient: reduced set-up, time

and sourcing costs

Everyone, from top management – ‘Gold level’ – down to the

people in the field – ‘Silver and Bronze levels’ – had

access to the real-time information they needed

to take swift, decisive action

Access the right information, at the right time

On the festival grounds, Barco equipped three temporary control rooms with displays/video walls and its full, network-centric control room solution (TransForm N controller + CMS software). Using secure IP technology, Transform N retrieved all security-related information from sources as diverse as CCTV cameras, live streams, weather forecasts and crowd management. One single operator took care of controlling, managing and distributing the appropriate views to the police forces, first responders, the management, etc., either at their control rooms or in the field. In this way, everyone had access to the right information at the right time, thus allowing them to focus on the right task, without being overwhelmed by information overload.

Improved command and control

The Barco set-up took command and control at the festival to whole new levels. The information reached lower echelons easily, without the need for a hierarchical command structure. Everyone, from the senior management – ‘Gold level’ – to the people in the field – ‘Silver and Bronze levels’ – had access to the real-time information they needed to take swift, decisive action. The police and fire department in the public authority room, for example, were very enthusiastic about the availability and switching flexibility of the data sources provided to them, as it really gave them extra eyes on the field.

Efficiency x10

As there was no need for a heavy command structure, the solution significantly boosted efficiency. Compared to the year before, when the organizers had used an HTML5 solution that had allowed everyone involved to see and select every source available and define their own layout, the response time now was impressively shorter, increasing efficiency by a factor of 10! Moreover, the decisions taken were better as they were based on real-time information that directly reflected reality. The possibility to enrich the video content with an extra data layer, also helped improve the quality of information – and, consequently, of decision-making. The result? The cost-effective, easy-to-use – and easy-to-reuse – set-up helped ensure a ‘peaceful’ edition of the music festival, just like the organizers had dreamt of …

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With risks and threats ranging from pickpocketing, violence and crowd disorder thru’ to extreme weather conditions or even acts of terrorism, physical security is absolutely crucial at music festivals and concerts. Ensuring that security goes far beyond checking backpacks at the entrance! The level of security that one of the world’s largest electronic music festivals guaranteed in 2015 exceeded all earlier measures. Inspired by an earlier Barco project, the festival had called in Barco’s help to set up a temporary security control center.

All together, the approach significantly

reduced response times, increasing efficiency by

a factor of 10