Virtual Wall

One video wall for everything your control room needs to see

PC-based video wall control. Route any source to any screen, put cameras, documents, web pages and video on one wall, control it from the E-Map and recall Scenarios with one click.

Simulated

The problem

  • Cameras, computer screens, documents and video sit on separate machines, so getting them onto the wall means juggling programs.
  • When the situation changes, walls are rearranged pane by pane, wall by wall, and a restart loses the layout.
  • When a pane goes dark, operators cannot tell a lost camera from a pane with no source.

How it works

01

Sources

CCTV cameras, computers on the HDMI inputs, PDF documents, web pages, images and video.

02

Display management program

Operators see a scaled model of every wall, pick sources from the E-Map for each pane or recall a saved Scenario.

03

Wall controller (PC)

Drives the monitors through HDMI / DisplayPort / DVI outputs in a virtual matrix arrangement and keeps the latest layout.

Capabilities

Switching and layout

  • Any source to any screen — one monitor or the whole wall, with each input assigned to any screen or layout position.
  • Free-form layouts — combine monitors into one display or split one monitor into several panes.
  • Window sizing with Snap to Grid — any size, any position, aligned to the grid.
  • One-click full screen — toggle a pane between full screen and normal view.
  • Wall layout preview — a scaled model of each wall, with every pane's position, size and source matching the physical wall.

Nested and multiple walls

  • Wall in Wall — a plug-in on the source computer lets the controller split its layout and show cameras: a nested wall inside a window of the main wall, both levels from one program.
  • Multiple nested walls — proven in the field with ten source computers nested inside one main wall of ten monitors at 9600 × 2160.
  • Multi-wall control — several walls, each with its own controller PC, side by side in one program; other walls appear as miniature views.

E-Map

  • E-Map from real plans — import building, control-room or project-area plans as JPG / PNG, or use an online map.
  • Icons at real positions — cameras, source computers on the input channels and monitors.
  • Click or drag onto the wall — pick a source from its icon and raise it onto any monitor and position.
  • Air-gapped operation — locally hosted map tiles and KML import for sites with no internet.

Sources on the wall

  • Camera feeds on the wall — raise live project cameras onto any monitor and move them within the layout.
  • Multi-vendor cameras in one layout — Milestone XProtect, Bosch and any RTSP-capable device.
  • Documents and media — PDF documents, web pages, image files and video files on any monitor and position.
  • Online video and live feeds — YouTube videos and live-feed URLs alongside cameras and web pages.
  • Computer screens over HDMI inputs — Datapath Vision capture cards and standard DirectShow devices.

Scenarios and continuity

  • One-click Scenarios — layout, sources and display positions saved together.
  • Multi-wall Scenarios — one Scenario stores and restores the layouts of several walls together.
  • Last-state recovery — each wall restores its latest layout after the controller or wall PC restarts.
  • Per-pane status — Connecting, Online, Reconnecting, Offline or No Source, telling a lost camera from an empty pane.
  • Automatic reconnection — a pane whose stream drops reconnects by itself; verified in continuous 25-hour operation.

Access control and audit

  • Role-based access control — rights assigned per display, per source and per E-Map.
  • Audit log — records which user changed which video wall display, and when.

With SafeAll CSIM

  • Raise the incident's camera from the incident record — the wall is managed from the same program as CSIM.
  • Wall as a notification channel — alongside sound, SOP, e-mail and SMS.

Who uses it

CCTV control rooms

Cameras raised onto the wall from the building or project-area E-Map, with layouts switched per incident through Scenarios.

Command centres running CSIM

The camera covering an active incident raised straight from the incident record.

Sites with several video walls

Many walls from one program, all changed together with one Scenario.

Sites with no internet

The E-Map runs fully offline with local map tiles and KML.

Deployment

  • PC-based controller installed in the control room
  • Virtual matrix
  • HDMI / DisplayPort / DVI outputs

Available capabilities depend on the monitor, camera and source models; we check models before every project.

Minimum controller hardware (per Datasheet v1.1):

  • CPU with not fewer than 6 cores
  • DDR4 memory, not smaller than 16 GB
  • SSD storage, not smaller than 512 GB
  • Not fewer than 8 HDMI video inputs
  • Not fewer than 8 video outputs in HDMI, DisplayPort or DVI

Documents

A team member emails you the file.

See it on your own video wall

Book a 30-minute demo, then start with one wall and the Scenario you use most.

For partners — the sales deck, FAQ and sample TOR are in the partner portal.