The Forest County Potawatomi recently opened a community center that includes a network of 13 interior LED video screens from SNA Displays' Bold Interior display series, according to a company press release.

Located near in Crandon, Wisconsin, the 105,000-square-foot community center is a hub for cultural education, recreation, athletic training, competition, wellness, and social events.

Camera Corner Connecting Point, a technology integrator specializing in audio-visual solutions, managed the project and Peerless-AV engineered all mounting systems for the wall-mounted displays on campus. Polar Focus provided design and engineering for the mounting structure needed to hang the video circles in the fieldhouse and gymnasium.

"From the beginning of this project, there were four main goals," Scott Tomashek, senior vice president of AV strategy at Camera Corner, said in the release. "Deliver cutting-edge display technology, integrate flexible AV solutions, make the entire system easy to operate for community center users, and most of all, incorporate everything into the facility's existing aesthetic rather than detracting from it. Our teams have done a great job in accomplishing those goals."

The building's design was informed by the Forest County Potawatomi culture, from the two levels that follow the natural grade to lessen environmental impact to the floorplan inspired by the form of an eagle in flight. The community center houses a 20,000 square-foot wood court gymnasium, 20,000 square-foot fieldhouse with synthetic field turf, and 8,000 square-foot pool. The fieldhouse serves as a training and competition venue for field sports such as lacrosse, with seating for up to 1,500 spectators, and as a venue for tribal events. The LED screens are used primarily as scoreboards and to share information with visitors.

In addition, the fieldhouse includes a digital chandelier. The 2.9 millimeter pixel pitch center-hung display has two main digital signage elements, an outward-facing, 360-degree ring display and a circular screen that faces down toward the field.

After the fieldhouse chandelier was installed, the Forest County Potawatomi decided to add a second center-hung to the digital signage network in the venue's gymnasium. The gymnasium digital chandelier consists of a ring section only. It also has a 2.9-millimeter pixel pitch.

The common area, welcoming visitors to the center, includes three wall-mounted, high-definition 2.5 mm interior displays. Camera Corner provided a cloud-based digital signage network that allows each screen to show synchronized or unique content, and the video-over-IP routing system allows for flexible usage of the screens for the space.

The community center's pool area has two 2.5 mm displays used for exercise videos, informational purposes and family night activities.

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