West Virginia University Site: Milan Puskar Stadium is the home of the West Virginia University (WVU) Mountaineers football team. Since 1891, the Mountaineers have been uniting WVU fans at NCAA Division 1A athletic events and on game days the stadium sees crowds of over 60,000, making it the largest population center in West Virginia. For indoor sports, the 14,000-seat WVU Coliseum is home to the Mountaineers basketball teams in addition to a variety of other sports, plus concerts and events. Challenge: Universities rely on the excitement generated by their sports programs to draw interest to their academic programs and help maintain high application rates. In addition, a fully realized athletics program should bring additional revenue to the school through concessions, souvenirs and advertising. WVU needed a complete sports entertainment solution that would help to support all of these objectives while generating excitement and inspiring fans and players at athletic events. Solution: The new digital signage solution at Puskar Stadium includes an LED screen which is three times wider than the system it replaced in the south end zone, with higher resolution LED quality. Two new full-color LED fascia boards running down each sideline display game and scoring information. Two additional LED auxiliary matrix boards in the south end zone replace older discrete digit scoring systems, now allowing a wide variety of in-game statistics. All screens also display messaging, game statistics and sponsor advertising. In the Coliseum, the dynamic video solution includes a center-hung, four-sided LED video replay system. Halo boards above and below the LED show live event coverage and real-time statistics as well as replays, messaging, sponsor advertising, and graphics. Two additional new LED auxiliary matrix boards in each backcourt zone and a completely new LED scorer's table at courtside display in-game statistics. The new video systems are capable of displaying both standard definition and HD content in bright, vivid colors. On par with professional sports arenas, these LEDs deliver quality, performance and incremental revenue-generation potential – along with fan and team excitement – many times greater than the static panels and display systems they replaced. Project: Coliseum and Milan Puskar Stadium at West Virginia University Indoor/Outdoor LED Signage for Sports Arenas
Milan Puskar Stadium • Main Video Replay Screen 85.0' x 23.6' 22.5mm Full-Color LED • East Fascia Display 306.1' x 3.8' 24mm Full-Color LED • West Fascia Display 306.1' x 3.8' 24mm Full-Color LED • South Left Auxiliary 20.9' x 4.5' 25mm Amber LED • South Right Auxiliary 4.5' x 22' 25mm Amber LED
Coliseum • New Center-hung structure, hoist and rigging system • Main Video Replay Screens (4) 16' x 15' 12mm Full-Color SMD-LED • Upper LED Halo Ring 28’ x 2.5’ 12mm Full-Color SMD-LED • Lower LED Halo Ring 22’ x 2.5’ 12mm Full-Color SMD-LED • Scorer’s Tables (4) 8’ x 2’ 12mm Full-Color SMD-LED • LED Fascia Scoring Displays 80’ x 2’ 20mm Full-Color LED
Panasonic LED Large Screen Systems are built with flexibility, functionality and performance in mind, featuring: • Impressive image quality even in direct sunlight, with brightness of 5,000 cd/m² • Wide angle of viewing • Dust and waterproof performance - meet IP66 standard • Subpixel processing - every dot of an image is processed in consideration of the layout of LED lamps to reproduce more precise images and sharper, smoother diagonal lines • Modular format - if a single panel needs to be replaced, the LED modular format allows the system to keep running • Eco-friendly - Panasonic does not use environmentally hazardous substances in our Astrovision products and our factories worldwide are ISO14001 certified
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