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Utilities, Power, Oil & Gas Keep Pace with Trending Solutions for Utility Control Room Operations. Utility companies need to create more energy fast, while facing an increasing risk of cyberattacks and sabotage. Compromised data or loss of service for electric, water, or gas for even just a short time can paralyze a community or organization. To mitigate these risks, many utility companies are rethinking their control room setups. Learn more at our webinar. Watch The Webinar
Fail-Safe, High-Performance Control Rooms for Critical Infrastructures Complex processes in control rooms for utility, power, or oil & gas companies are part of a volatile critical infrastructure. Recent energy shortages, alternative energies, frequent cyberattacks, and sabotage acts add to the complexity. Time is of the essence to protect your critical infrastructure. An ever-increasing amount of data needs to be quickly monitored and easily controlled to allow operators to respond instantly based on informed decisions. Tailored AV/KVM/IoT solutions from Black Box installed in a central control room provide instant access to distributed systems or local command rooms, comprehensive data visualization, as well as data capture through intelligent IoT sensor hubs. These solutions are designed to help you mitigate inherent risks in your control room processes.
New Solutions Benefit Your Utility Control Room in Many Ways Trust Black Box to deliver flexible, scalable, easy-to-install control room solutions tailored to your exact requirements. Simple-to-use solutions are ideal for collaboration. You get 24/7 fail-safe operation, improved situational awareness, and instant response times from highly secure systems, spanning multisite deployments, with long-term availability and global design support.
Signal Distribution Tailored to Your Needs Choose technologies that best fit your exact requirements: number of workstations, screens, servers, and peripherals. Flexible Seating and Scalable Design Operators can work from their desks and access their workspaces through their login. Systems and users features can be added exactly in line with the control room upgrades. Easy-to-Use, Ideal for Collaboration Set up your control room with one-click presets, glide and switch systems with your mouse, enjoy a clean workspace, and share information. 24/7 Error-Free Fail-safe Operation Get multiple levels of redundancy for links, power, devices, management, and manual or automatic network fallback switching. Improved Situational Awareness Multi-screen, multi-view, video wall processing helps you visualize data quickly, efficiently, and completely. Instant Response Times High-speed switching enables operators to respond in real-time to mitigate sensitive or dangerous conditions. Highly Secure Control room solutions deliver high-level network security, authentication tools, isolation between public and critical systems, and integrate security camera feeds. Multisite Deployments Connect distributed facilities, remote control rooms over LAN, WAN, and dedicated fiber links. Long-Term Availability These control room solutions won’t go out of style; Black Box supports long product life cycles. Easy to Install and Integrate Pre-configured, compatible control room solutions require minimum training and are easy to manage with simple-to-understand configuration tools. Global Design Support An experienced, well-educated support team works together with system integrators and their end users, and includes virtual control room pre-planning. Trusted Partner With more than 40 years in the business and a large amount of successful utility control room rollouts and updates, Black Box builds control rooms around the world that are second-to-none.
Emerald KVM-over-IP Consider these two ways of extending and switching signals over your network. With the Emerald 4K KVM Matrix Switching over IP system, you can extend and switch pixel-perfect HD or 4K video over a dedicated or existing IP network. With the DKM KVM system, you can directly connect your matrix KVM switching and extension system for instantaneous HD video switching. Watch the videos to learn more.
Emerald 4K KVM Matrix Switching over IP Learn how to extend and switch video, USB 2.0, and analog audio from any combination of physical and virtual desktops and servers.
Solutions For the utilities industry, Black Box is your IT source to bring your control rooms to life. Leverage KVM over IP, direct connect, local control rooms, multisite deployments, or video wall solutions to keep you ahead of the technology wave. Choose from our comprehensive IT solutions to suit your requirements.
Multisite Deployments Local Control Room Surveying the situation – concept of signal distribution in a central control room. DKM – Direct Connect Distribution concept for utilities control rooms. KVM over IP Multisite Deployments Expand your IT control rooms to multiple sites with Black Box solutions. Local Control Room Connectivity concept for smaller or remote control rooms Surveying the situation – concept of signal distribution in a central control room. DKM – Direct Connect Distribution concept for utilities control rooms. KVM over IP Emerald KVM over IP Distribution Concept for utilities control rooms.
Featured Solutions KVM Switching and Extension Access and switch between multiple remote computers, video channels, and USB peripherals from a single keyboard, video monitor, and mouse console. View more Video Wall Processing Visualize and instantly respond to mission-critical information in real-time with video wall solutions for any application size. View more Redundant and Remote Networking In industrial or office environments, or at the edge of your network, create a fail-safe Ethernet application, control, and monitor all your equipment. View more AV Distribution Choose Black Box AV, multimedia, solutions to allow latency-free, high-performance AV distribution. View more Network Cabling & infrastructure Our wide selection of high quality copper, fiber, and video cabling ensures the full performance of your devices. Passive components and custom-made fiber trunks are also available. View more Environmental Monitoring, Redundant and Remote Access Wired or wireless IoT sensors instantly relay status and notify you to correct environmental problems with your remote equipment before they harm your equipment. View more
Featured Product Emerald Extend and switch. View Product DKM Direct connect KVM. View Product Freedom Glide and Switch. View Product
Customer Success Stories Read how scalable, futureproof KVM solutions helped several customers optimize workflows and increase productivity. Sabesp Selects Emerald & Boxilla for Control Room A Brazilian waste management company improves performance and streamlines management for remote users who access its new command/control room. Read Case Study Black Box Explains Key Advantages of KVM over IP Read More KVM Switching vs. Hardware Virtualization Read More 7 Best Practices for AV-over-IP Security Read More The Benefits of Using Managed Switches Read More
Additional Resources
Brochure Emerald Unified KVM Brochure Extend, switch, and manage a KVM over IP network with Emerald Unified KVM. Download Brochure Brochure Control Room Brochure Get details about a wide range of control room solutions from Black Box. Download Brochure Brochure MCX Brochure Visualize everything behind the screens with the next-generation MCX AV-over-IP solution. Download Brochure Flyer Utilities Flyer Learn about the advantages of using Black Box technologies for modern utilities control rooms. Download Flyer Flyer Freedom Flyer Glide and switch to respond instantly from a neat, efficient, organized workspace. Download Flyer White Paper The Evolution of Intelligent Control Rooms Learn about intelligent control rooms, past, present, and future trends. Download White Paper White Paper How to Future-proof Connectivity for Modern Control Rooms Learn about control room connectivity. Discover the best solution for your control room application. Download White Paper Webinar Utilities OnDemand Webinar Join us to learn how you can optimize your utilities control room. Watch The Webinar
Why Black Box? Just as your control rooms are the connectivity point for all you do, we make a point of connecting your needs to our services. We bring human-centric technology solutions to assist you in a seamless adaptation toward today’s dynamic utilities control room environments and into the future. We analyze your requirements and suggest how control room technology can help meet those goals. We’re committed to objective analysis and honest appraisals. By continually investing in R&D, world-class infrastructure, and bringing the best talent from all across the world, we co-create path-breaking technology solutions that deliver flexible, reliable solutions for our customers. Let us assist you in your project and answer any questions related to your application. Contact Us