ABSTRACT
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Control rooms and control centres tend to have something in common, even though control rooms are used in several areas of application. The specic types of applications are many and varied and include telecommunication, military and aerospace, industry, energy (generation, distribution, and transmission), security (national and domestic), water (production, sewage, and purication), trafc monitoring and control (roads, tunnels), airports, railway and metro networks, police and re departments, emergency services and call centres, data centres for governments, and commercial enterprises. In general, the central medium of such a room nowadays is a large screen system. Other terms for large screen display include: video wall, large display screen, large video screen, display wall, large video screen, large screen display, and monitor wall. Other technical and specic terms used in connection with this display screen technology are contained in a glossary at the end of this chapter.
