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Sochi-2014 Olympic Games Main Press Center Polymedia project
Sochi-2014 Olympic Games
Main Press Center
Polymedia project
Category
Leisure & Entertainment Facility
Start date
April – mid-May, 2013 (survey of the facility), June 4 (contract)
Completion date
December 25, 2013
Approximate value
3.1 million EUR
Integrator
Polymedia JSC
Client
Omega Center JSC
Facility
Main Media Centre of XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games
Address
Russia, Krasnodar region, Sochi, Adler district, Imereti lowland
While implementing Main Press Center project for Sochi-2014 Olympic Games
Polymedia has equipped with high technology facilities the following premises:
• 4 conference halls named after Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov
• Conference halls at a hotel for media personnel
• Press room for 500 seats
• Photo reporter room for 100 seats
• Entrance zone of the Main Press Center (MPC)
Products of Panasonic, a World Olympic Partner and longstanding partner of Polymedia,
constitute a bulk of audiovisual equipment. For the sake of optimal controlling information
visualization tasks Polymedia integrated into MPC its proprietary Polywall software.
The solution facilitates holding press conferences, presentations, video bridges, live
broadcast of sport competitions and awarding ceremonies, cultural and promotional events.
The Polymedia project's goal was to create a world
class press center that fully correspond to contemporary
tendencies and needs of multimedia system users
As part of the project implementation Polymedia has developed a concept of
equipping multifunctional conference halls that provides the Main Press Center
with the following functionality:
• Displaying information at a large screen with high image quality
• Comfortable and trouble-free press conferencing, conducting meetings,
negotiations and videoconferences
• Sound reinforcement of microphone and audio sources signals
• Integrated control over all the facility using a common intuitive interface
• Documenting all the events held at the Center
• Providing simultaneous interpretation to all event attendees
Total space of 158,000 square meters for 2,000
world and Russian leading media personnel and
6,000 TV and radio broadcasters of 70
companies from all over the world.
Press working room - 4,500 square meters
with 500 work seats
Photographer working room - 1,500 square
meters with 100 work seats
4 halls for holding press conferences:
Pushkin with 465 seats
Tolstoy with 220 seats
Dostoyevskiy with 140 seats and
Chekhov with 50 seats
as well as three rooms for preparing
speakers to press conferences .
Main Press Center zones
Multifunctional press conference halls operation has been provided by integrating the
following facilities:
• Information display system
• Audio conference system
• Video conference system
• Simultaneous interpreting system
• Sound system
• Integrated control system
• Switching system
• Multimedia sources
• Visualization control system
• Documenting system
Logistics
Pushkin
Dostoyevsky Tolstoy
Chekhov
Information display system. MPC conference halls
Video walls of 2x2 Panasonic TH-
55LFV50W thin frame LCD panels
Panasonic TX-L(R)50ET60 repeater panels
2 x video walls 3x3
PanasonicTH-55LFV50W
thin frame LCD panels
and 2 x Panasonic TX-
L(R)60DT60 repeater
panels
2 х Panasonic
TX-L(R)50ET60
panels
Pushkin hall
15 equipped seats at the top table
465 seats for guests and journalists
18 seats for simultaneous interpreters
6 equipped seats at the top table
220 seats for guests and journalists
8 seats for simultaneous interpreters
Tolstoy hall
Dostoyevskiy hall
6 equipped seats at the top table
140 seats for guests and journalists
8 seats for simultaneous interpreters
3 equipped seats at the top table
50 seats for guests and journalists
8 seats for simultaneous interpreters
Chekhov hall
A top table of Pushkin hall is equipped with 12 Element One sliding monitors which facilitate taking
spectacular pictures: when photographers work the monitor can be getting off not to cover speaker faces.
At Tolstoy and Dostoyevskiy halls information can be
repeated to speaker at built-in tablets.
Main Press Center conference halls
Panasonic TX-L42DT60 Digital Signage YCD panel of
a shared displays unified system is installed at the
entrance to every hall.
All 4 halls are supported by alone
Panasonic HDVC KX-VC600CX
videoconferencing codec that allows
holding videoconferences at all halls.
Main Press Center conference halls
• 4 x video walls of 2x2 Panasonic TH-
55LFV50W thin frame LCD panels
• 3 x Panasonic ТН-65PF50E plasma panels
• 1 x Panasonic HDVC KX-VC600CX
videoconferencing codec at each conference
hall
7 codecs altogether
Conference halls at Main Press Center hotel
Video walls at the hotel and the press center use thin frame panel on-board codecs instead of
external ones.
A video wall and displays located here are combined into
Digital Signage system that allows broadcasting
competition programs, video, announcements, news and
other multimedia content.
Main Press Center entrance zone
The Polywall software (Polymedia’s
product) is a full pledged visualization
control and management tool that
allow swiftly and easily controlling
hardware and software information
sources and display received date in
the best demonstrative form.
A server part of the solution is installed
at a video wall controller while a client
part (en editor) runs at an operator's
computer with intuitive user interface.
Visualization control system
Audio conference system (congress system) Main Press Center congress system provides audio interacting between speakers as well as supporting off-
line and on-line participants and listeners, simultaneous interpreting, electronic archiving and on-line
broadcasting.
The system includes table top microphone units of DIS delegates and DIS central unit allowing controlling
microphones according to a certain regulations. A hallmark of the equipment is using a crypto algorithm that prevents eavesdropping voice signals at the
channel with various radio scanners. The technology is patented and approved by a number of international
state security services.
Simultaneous interpreting system
Simultaneous interpreting facilities used at press conferences and other events provided comfortable
conditions for journalists from all over the world and supported high quality 8 language interpreting in spite
of the fact than during Olympic Games 2014 at peak periods they number up to 18 per a day. The system
has been built on the basis of the following equipment:
• DIS DT 6008 eight channel digital transmitter
• DIS RA6013 digital emitter
• DIS IS 6132 Р table top simultaneous interpreter unit with DIS IH 6000 headset
• DIS DR 6004 four channel digital receiver with DIS DH 6021 earphones
View from an interpreter booth Listener headset
Documenting and broadcasting system
The system performs the following MPC missions:
• Recording multimedia resources
• Indexing records relative to electronic resources (slides)
• Cataloging, storing and review multimedia resources
Epiphan VGADVI Recorder Pro recording server provides at any conference hall a possibility to
simultaneously record two VGA, DVI and/or HDMI signals as well as analog composite or S-video signal and
audio at the same AVI file.
Epiphan VGADVI Recorder Pro
connection layout
Sound system
The Main Press Center is equipped with an intelligent sound system on the basis of Biamp and Bose units
that enables automate voice control.
The function is implemented with Biamp Tesira Server-IO digital network server equipped with additional I/O
cards.
Using such a system allowed to provide high quality sounds and convenient control over sonic flow inside
rooms. The modes are controlled distantly by means of an integrated control system.
Bose facilities are used for sound amplification. PowerMatch PM8500N is only 2U in height. It combines very
high quality of the best AB class units with D class efficiency. Bose PeakBank power supply unit works in 4 quadrant mode with a real time power factor correction.
Biamp Tesira Server-IO network server Power Match PM8500N amplifier
Switching system
MPC switching system is designed on the basis of Extron equipment and contains all necessary tools for
signal retrieval, conversion and distributing as well as cable passages. Using Extron tools Polymedia
consolidated HD-SDI video signals from video cameras at all halls into one DVI Matrix Switchers HDCP-
Compliant HD-SDI switch.
Extron HDCP-Compliant DVI Matrix Switchers
The integrated system functions correspond to the
extreme requirements of the highest audio and video
quality inherent to medical equipment, cartography and
other institutes where such solutions play a critical role.
Main Press Center integrated control system Polymedia Company used its partner Crestron equipment for intelligent controlling all integrated systems of
the Main Press Center.
• The newest Crestron PR03 central controller (six RS-232/422/485 configured control ports, eight infrared
ports, eight low-current relays, eight I/O ports, two RJ45 ports for accessing Ethernet 10/100Mbit/s local
area network)
• Crestron TPS-6x table top touch screen control panel Integrated control system provides a possibility
to create a individual graphic interface for each
system and each user with due regard to
ergonomic and even its aesthetic preferences.
All the functions of controlling and managing
integrated systems are consolidated at a
specialized operator's PC. Its graphic user
interface can be complemented with simple
control functions absolutely clear to any user
even without additional training as well as
service functions necessary to skilled
technicians for fine tuning particular tasks.
Consideration of the environment
When selecting AV equipment Polymedia generally opted for Panasonic because of ergonomics, high
quality and ecological design.
To minimize environmental impact the manufacturer offers a great variety of product design and
engineering.
Panasonic focuses on constant development of eco-friendly products that fully meet requirements of
environmental protection standards basing on reconstructed models and careful material selection.
Nowadays Panasonic may state with certainty that it has reached full compliance with RoHS directive
due
to understanding ecological problems and necessity to solve them. All the manufacturer’s products —
31,400 models altogether — fully comply with RoHS requirements. Using state-of-the-art equipment for
testing chemical substances the company carefully checks all manufacturing stages down to material
entered to be sure in full congruity of its manufacturing system.
About Polymedia Polymedia is a leader of the display systems market in Russia, a system integrator and
software developer.
Year of foundation: 1998.
Geography: 14 subsidiaries in largest Russian and CIS cities.
Company engineers are professionals in creating projects for conference halls, situation
centers, control rooms, monitoring and control centers, stadiums and multipurpose sport
areas, meeting rooms and classrooms.
Polymedia is focused on developing and implementing innovative solutions and equipment
that form a market of audiovisual technologies in Russia. Its primary goal is to design
professional creative solutions that meet customer needs and match their aims to the
maximum extent possible.
