NanoLumens LED lights up Singapore’s Changi Airport
Singapore’s Changi airport sits high on the list of the world’s best airports, featuring robotic ‘housekeepers’, a full suite of self-service options from check-in, and most recently, two state-of-the-art NanoLumens Performance Series LED displays that churn out HD digital content 24 hours a day.
Located above T4’s centralised security screening area, the ‘Immersive Wall’ is 70m-wide by 5m-tall with a 6mm pixel pitch and has been dubbed one of the largest indoor airport displays in the world. The second display is a 10m-wide by 6m-tall, 4mm pixel pitch display in the departure transit area’s Heritage Zone, which is built directly into a shophouse facade with several faux building fronts that highlight Singapore’s architectural evolution from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Chosen because of their ability to meet strict RFP specifications, NanoLumens created a custom solution specifically for Changi based on a redesign of their proprietary Nixel Series technology that was able to accommodate the demanding Moment Factory content. The solution required several mechanical enhancements in order to overcome EMI, EMC and other strict RFP specifications. The new rigid Nixel technology is truly optimised for being flat with a larger diode for the highest brightness and is rear serviceable. Being able to access the displays from a high vantage point through rear service will keep traveler visibility of the displays at an absolute maximum.
Moment Factory created the enthralling visual content for both displays. Immersive Wall shows flowing, geometric waves of 3D animations, picturesque lifelike scenes from throughout Singapore, and a funny, playful animation of the imaginary journey luggage takes after check-in. The Heritage Zone display, on the other hand, is integrated convincingly into the zone’s facade, comprising the second floor of two of the buildings and showing Peranakan Love Story, a dramatic original film set in 1930s Singapore. According to NanoLumens Vice President of Sales Almir DeCarvalho, the gorgeous final product is the result of successful collaboration and a highly detailed bidding and engineering process.
“This project was one of the most rigorous, competitive bidding processes we’ve ever been part of,” DeCarvalho said. “After a series of gruelling demonstrations, investors, executives and government representatives all scored the displays on visual appeal and underlying technology, and unanimously voted NanoLumens the best of the best. We met or beat every spec they required, including weight, power draw, brightness, viewing angles, electromagnetic compatibility and electronic magnetic interference limits.”
“With roughly a year of just the bidding process, not to mention the actual installation, this was a highly complex project with many, many moving parts,” said Martin Leclerc, NanoLumens Director of International Sales. “When one considers the consistent, rigorous testing we performed to ensure our specs were accurate and lived up to Moment Factory’s requirements, it’s obvious everyone involved was focused on every detail, every step of the way.”
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