BARCO visualization and management solutions
Barco is one of the leading developers and manufacturers of various visualization solutions, including hardware and software systems for management and integration.
Today the company offers the following types of equipment:
- Projectors
- Video Cubes
- LCD panels
- LED screens
- Video Controllers
- Barco OpSpace and Barco CMS hardware and software systems
Barco’s wide product range includes projectors that use various light sources and technologies. Depending on the goals and objectives of the project, engineers can choose devices with various resolutions, brightness levels, noise levels, weight and size: from small business projectors for small conference rooms, meeting rooms, training classes and auditoriums to installation projectors with brightness up to 75,000 Lm and 4K resolution for large conference rooms, exhibition halls, theaters, exhibitions, shows and other large-scale projects, including architectural mappings. The use of ground-breaking technologies allows to create the brightest projectors and makes it possible to install projection equipment in rooms with average lighting levels to operate in round-the-clock mode, for example, in large situation centers and control centers. In addition, Barco manufactures specialized projection equipment for simulators, stereoscopic 3D projectors suited for virtual reality, as well as laser and lamp-based cinema projectors.
Barco has pioneered in the production of RGB laser rear-projection cubes. These cubes deliver 2x more brightness than mainstream rear-projection video cubes, but still provide great color rendition and contrast, making them suitable to use in the daylight. These features, as well as the life-span of more than 11 years, determine the key application area of laser rear-projection cubes: 24/7 control centers.
Barco offers turn-key OSV seamless video wall systems (OverView Seamless Videowall), which are rear-projection screens of certain sizes that show data and high-quality video without seams or bezels. Display range include flat and curved screens of different resolution and brightness levels, suitable for working in a variety of applications: from emergency centers to shared brainstorming and planning spaces, as well as in more typical utilities control centers, energy control centers and industrial control centers.
Barco’s traditionally professional high-resolution LCD panels are the ideal solution for video walls in small and medium-sized control rooms, corporate lobbies and training centers. The UniSee 55″ bezel-less tiled LCD video wall platform has become a revolutionary solution on the LCD-video wall market, allowing to create practically seamless video walls. In order to guarantee perfect and automatic panel alignment, revolutionary UniSee Mount mounting structure is used. Sense X remote diagnostics and video wall management software automatically measures and adjusts the color and brightness levels in real time, ensuring a perfectly balanced image.
Barco offers an extensive range of high-quality LED screens for both indoor and outdoor installations. These solutions are used in various spectacular productions, shows and presentations; in theaters and museums; for indoor and outdoor advertising in public places, stores, retail chains etc. LED screens are also used in brightly lit control centers.
Barco manufactures a wide range of high-quality leading-edge video controllers for various applications: from video wall controllers that support a large number of video sources and graphic data in control rooms to powerful real-time image processing systems that provide complex video walls for large events or complex fixed-site installations.
An important part in Barco’s portfolio is the Barco OpSpace and Barco CMS software and hardware systems (Control Room Management Suite).
OpSpace is an operator workspace solution that significantly increases efficiency and productivity by providing the operator with a personal, ergonomic, secure and integrated visualization and interaction system that brings together multiple sources of information. All relevant information can be consulted and manipulated within a single pixel space, with just one mouse and keyboard. In this way, the operator is at the center of the information and has all data within easy reach.
• OpSpace provides the operator with total control over the situation, offering a personal, combined overview and management of applications, remote desktops and IP video streams, and gives an opportunity to combine them in a single pixel space with high-resolution multi-monitor setup;
• Using OpSpace allows operators to quickly manage all remote desktops and applications with low latency, as if they were sitting right in front of the home computer;
Barco CMS is a networked content management system. Barco CMS ensures collaboration between multiple workstations and direct exchange with all visualization solutions in real time. The simultaneous use of content and the exchange of information between the objects of the system ensure quick decision-making in emergency situations, which makes Barco CMS an ideal tool for work in control rooms and situation centers. The CMS system is designed for standard IP networks, application servers, software, decoding technology, workstations and video walls, so it can be easily integrated into the control room environment.
Barco produces systems for collecting, processing, distributing, monitoring and displaying information. A variety of high-tech solutions suitable for complex projects coming from one vendor ensures compatibility of all components, simplifies the design, and ultimately reduces the cost of implementation and technical support for the project.
ClickShare Wireless Presentation System
Creativity is your asset. Thanks to ClickShare you will be sure that all your ideas will get the attention they deserve. Using this wireless presentation system, users can easily share information from the screen of their laptop or mobile device to the display screen for more efficient collaboration.
It does not require any cables, settings or wating! Simply connect the ClickShare Button to the USB port of the device, click it and display your presentation on the screen in optimal resolution. If you want to share information from a tablet or smartphone, just use the free ClichShare application for mobile devices, it is available for both iOS and Android! f
Now the company offers 3 versions of ClickShare, the main features are shown in the table below:
| CS-100 | CS-200 | CS-800 | |
| Meeting room type | Small | Small to medium | Boardroom & conference room |
| Central management | + | + | |
| Number of users on screen | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Outputs | 1 (HDMI) | 1 (HDMI) | |
| Moderation | + | ||
| Blackboarding & annotation | + | ||
| Configurable security | + |