Hennepin County’s partnership with iSpace Environments outfits their traffic monitoring center – an extension of the Hennepin County Emergency Operations Center.
Hennepin County, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, monitors over 1200 traffic signals throughout the county and state. To do so, Hennepin County needed massive improvement to the technology within the Traffic Control Center.
iSpace Environments provided displays, controls and interconnected programming with a total of 136 infrastructure endpoints. At the time of installation, it was one of the largest NVX systems deployed in Minnesota.
Hennepin County
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Aaron Smith | © Smitty’s Workshop
Technology: Crestron NVX (AV over IP), Crestron touch control panels, Samsung Video Wall, Biamp DSP with Crestron Pendant Speakers
The improvements consisted of 8 PCs controlling a giant display wall, spanning 9.5’ high and 33.5’ wide, made of up of thirty-two 55” individual screens with 15,360 x 4,320 pixel resolution. The 32 screens can display one giant image or sectioned into quadrants of 16, 8, 4, 2 or single images to display traffic signals, event tracking data and web content at the same time. Six pre-programmed display layouts are available to select via the Crestron control panel–or a user can easily create a custom layout to display.
From this control center, the traffic engineers and researchers can adjust the viewing angles of each intersection camera. In the future, the TCC will be able to record and save up to 3-5 days’ worth of data collected from monitored intersections and will be able to assist with traffic incidents, road issues & other emergency needs, with their partners at County Dispatch.
This control center will also be used to evaluate the timing plan for each intersection within their jurisdiction. Optimized for safety and volume, there are up to 7 different timing plans for each semaphore and freeway entrance ramp throughout the day.
