With all the preliminary planning, our experts have to overcome unexpected difficulties again and again when they drive to the customer to install a media solution. However, as our technicians Thomas Schmid and Christian Arnsberg learned on a project in Africa, distance is not always the biggest problem ...
One of the strengths of the AUDITORIUM is to plan even larger projects in advance and in consultation with all parties involved so that implementation and commissioning can proceed as smoothly as possible. But despite all this planning, it happens again and again that the conditions on site do not correspond to the construction plans, a short-term customer request has to be implemented, or that one has simply forgotten an important tool or component. If something like this happens on a project in the vicinity of our locations in Hamm and Münster, it is already annoying enough. There has to be phone calls and discussions, in the worst case one or two hours can be spent driving to get the forgotten. But what if the construction site is 10,000 km away, in the middle of the East African Kenya? These and other considerations went through Christian and Thomas' heads when they dealt with a customer inquiry. In an existing hotel complex, 60 rooms should be retrofitted with televisions, along with the distribution of signals from a central satellite system in all rooms, of course. A project of this magnitude is always a technical and logistical challenge, the climatic conditions on site and the Kenyan stable system with completely different standards and encryption increased the level of difficulty considerably. However, together with a large German manufacturer of satellite reception technology, the two of them designed a matrix that, starting from a large head-end station, distributes the TV programs as analog cable signals to all terminals. This solution should meet all requirements and guarantee robust operation.
