GE's New Grid IQ Global Innovation Center Features Massive 58-Foot Video Wall

SEEN & NOTED: MARKHAM, ONTARIO — GE has announced the opening of its newly constructed Grid IQ™ Global Innovation Center in Markham, Ontario. The state-of-the-art, 200,000-square-foot facility is designed to foster innovation and global collaboration to improve the efficiency, reliability and security of the world's electrical grids. The new facility includes 100,000 square feet of production space and will help GE meet both current and future product demands as utilities around the world continue to look for ways to improve their energy infrastructures. The facility incorporates on-site research and test and simulation laboratories that provide GE engineers with easy access to the tools needed to help customers solve energy challenges. The building includes a technical training center providing both on-site and distance learning offerings for GE employees, partners and customers. The $40 million project is supported by a grant of $7.9 million from the Government of Ontario.

To help bring the new center to life in the most engaging, customer-friendly way possible, GE partnered with Advanced, Canada’s leading AV integrator, to envision, design and install an integrated audio-video and IT solution that encompasses 55 rooms including a Customer Experience Center that features a massive 58-foot Prysm LPD video wall.

Advanced utilized Prysm's video wall technology along with several wall-mounted touchscreens to enable customers to explore GE’s energy technologies firsthand and provide them with ways to discover solutions to improve and enhance their energy grids. In fact, it's the world’s largest curved Prysm video wall, measuring 58 feet wide by 7 feet tall using 175 individual tiles with the thinnest seams currently possible.  Video processing is provided by the latest Extron Quantum™ Elite processor and a professional grade multi-zone audio system was installed to complete the media experience. The entire Customer Experience Center features Crestron automation and can be controlled through an iPad.

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