When the new Golf Play
Café asks patrons to “swing on
over,” they mean that literally. The restaurant/bar that opened this year in
Rochester, New York features over 50 world-renowned golf courses on its four state-of-the-art
PGA TOUR® simulators. Players/diners can hit into the four simulators’ 20 x
20-foot screens and watch their friends do so on a dozen LG 60- and 42-inch LCD
monitors throughout the bar and restaurant, linked by 12 Xantech IPRS232 XtraLink IP™ controller/switchers that
enable transmission of RS232, RS422, or RS485 serial commands over an existing
IP network to a specific IP address, and all controlled by a Xantech WIC1200
Web Intelligent Controller. This all-Xantech control system was installed and
integrated by Muzak/Functional Communications, with offices in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and Albany, New York.
Muzak/Functional
Communications installed a total of 16 video displays in Golf Play Café to
complement the restaurant’s four golf simulators, which allow short-formatted
play of nine holes on one of the 50 best courses in the world stored in the PGA
TOUR system’s memory and projected onto the four large screens. To create a
seamless and consistent experience throughout the facility, Muzak/Functional
Communications installed the system comprising Xantech IPRS232s and WIC1200 Web
Intelligent Controller.
“Those LCDs are tied into
the head-end equipment rack that’s controlled by the WIC1200,” explains Dru
Biehler, Service Manager at Muzak/Functional Communications. The firm’s
technicians then integrated eight Dell tablet computers with the WIC1200,
allowing patrons to choose their own channels from anywhere in the restaurant
or bar, to watch sports on popular channels such as DISH Network or to tune
into the virtual courses that golfers are playing on and watch them. “The
entire system is running over Cat-6 cabling with an HD video signal extended to
all the displays, and the WIC1200 is the brains of the entire operation,” says
Biehler. “The Xantech WIC1200 is the only piece of equipment that can do all of
this, including interfacing with the Dell tablets, at a cost-effective price
point. And Xantech’s technical service is amazing – you call and you get help
right away. That means the world when you’re working on a project like this
one, where we had a tight deadline.” In fact, says Biehler, Muzak/Functional
Communications’ winning bid for the project was based in part on its ability to
get the work down in the shortest time frame. “And Xantech’s ease of use and
reliability helped us meet that requirement,” he says.
Xantech's Web Intelligent
Controller WIC1200 is a stand-alone room controller for Networked/Web-based control
featuring 2 IR Ports, 2 Serial Ports, 2 Contact Closure ports, and 2 Digital
i/o ports as well as 2 Ethernet ports (one with Power over Ethernet [POE]) for
TCP/IP telnet control with less intrusion into facility IP networks. On its
own, the Web Intelligent Controller is an Event-driven component with two RS232
ports (configurable for RS422 and RS232) and a single IP port. The Event
Manager is capable of Timed Events, Calendar Events, Telnet and Serial Events
as well a full FTP site, Web Server and Email Server.
“We have access to the
WIC1200 via the Golf Play Café’s SSLVPN,” added Biehler. “By browsing through
the URL it will prompt you for your username and password. Then we have
complete control over the WIC programming and the web control page from our
office. That is only one of the many great features of Xantech. We also love
the service and support.”
The IPRS232 XtraLink IP
enables the transmission of RS232, RS422, or RS485 serial commands over an
existing IP network to a specific IP address now with Power over Ethernet (POE)
for streamlined installation. By allowing the use of an existing wired or
wireless IP network, it offers new opportunities in installation and system
flexibility, particularly in retrofitting older buildings, where new wire runs
may not be practical.
For more information,
please visit www.xantechcommercial.com.
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