"The project has been very thoroughly researched, and we believe we have a soccer-based attraction that is second only to the thrill of taking part in a professional match," says Keegan.
Soccer Circus is centred on football skill games intended to allow everyone to play. Visitors are guided through a series of interactive and fully automated games that use real footballs.
Six Medialon Manager PRO licenses control four Ektacom StreamCoders, 12 ArtNet DownLynx DMX units, 17 Barco IQG500 projectors, two Barco RLM R6+ projectors, 17 Barco LC42 TFT screens, and three TVOne C2-7100 Universal Video Scalers. Medialon also exchanges data with 20 Beckhoff TwinCAT Modbus TCP PLC Windows CE controllers. All data is related directly to the central Soccer Circus SQL Database.
In addition, 45 multi-instance Medialon Display Player boxes (MDPX) provide video and audio replay either as part of the interactive games, or as dynamic signage. Five more Medialon Manager panel licenses are used as remote user interfaces to the show-control systems from various locations around the attraction.
The entire attraction system was designed in-house by the Soccer Circus engineering team led by Clive Mockford. "Working in close collaboration with Medialon throughout the project, from concept through to delivery, has been a key part of our success," he comments.
(Jim Evans)
