Video conferencing equipment, high-performance laser projectors, mapping software, ultra-thin edge monitors for video walls, amplifiers and sound boxes for 5.1 system and high-performance directional speakers are part of some of the equipment integrated in the Accenture building in Recife, Brazil.
Richard Santa
The Brazilian integration firm Solutione was selected by Accenture to develop and implement the Innovation Center project in Recife, with the aim of generating a unique, interactive and flexible environment that would preserve different and integrated areas to receive Accenture clients.
Accenture in Recife is located in the technology center of Pernambuco, known as "Puerto Digital". It is a government initiative that invests in technology and software development companies, located in the historic center of Recife. The buildings are not laid down to maintain the original Dutch architecture of the colonization era. Accenture is located inside an old warehouse that was used by the port, today revitalized to involve the development team and new technologies.
Although there was no innovation center in Recife, Accenture already has innovation centers in other cities around the world. The decision to create the Recife Innovation is due to the company's strategy of investing in technological developments, closely related to the fact that Recife (Porto Digital) is one of the great Brazilian technology centers.
The intervention included differentiated videoconference rooms with the use of directional sound, virtual reality environment, gadgets with interactive RFID and digital signage, polarized glass, mapping, special projections, lighting control and automation, among other innovations.
The intervened space
The Accenture building in Recife has spaces for videoconferencing, presentation of wireless content, integrated into automation systems for equipment control, as well as lighting. Also a mapping, 5.1 sound system and lighting presets for a true AVI immersion show.
Through automation, various lighting and sound scenarios can be activated, thus creating experiences aimed at applications in the most varied markets, such as: industry, retail, financial, etc.
Bose's sound was one of the highlights. The perceived sound quality and the distribution of the sound boxes associated with the performance created by the Solutione provide an immersive and complete experience in conjunction with the projections and contents exhibited.
The integration with mapping control systems, LED lighting, gadget control, videoconferencing drive, polarized glass and all other scenarios are made through the automations that the Solutione has developed in a personalized way.
As the environment is fully used, either in independent spaces, the sound system was designed to allow for these various stages, for which ceiling microphones and a 5.1 system were placed in the Accenture auditorium. Mapped projection, blending, video conferencing, and even a polarized glass wall have been applied in the innovation center to deliver the technological resources needed for Accenture's developments.
Wireless presentation systems were installed in various spaces, which allow the sending of content from computers, smartphones and tablets, for the monitors and videowall scattered throughout the innovation center.
The virtual reality glasses were installed for Accenture to develop applications and simulations in virtual environments. In the videoconferencing rooms, Solutione has implemented a solution that allows communication and the exchange of video and audio with all Accenture customers around the world, in real time and in Full HD, and even in an open place, Videoconferencing is heard only by participants who are in the specific area of video conferencing.
Architecture protection
The integrating company encountered a challenge when they arrived at the building, the old warehouse, where no major change could be made to the original architecture. Infrastructure was also a challenge for the same reasons. However, with the appropriate use of the most modern technologies they managed to reconcile both the idea of innovation and maintain and preserve the characteristics of the premises, which is a historic site.
After solving this problem, they managed to develop a solution in which the main benefit is that the client can experience everything that is being presented to meet their needs. Thus decisions are faster and always more assertive. With the audiovisual technologies implemented to Accenture, it is able to clearly "illustrate" its intentions in the projects of its clients and thus productivity and efficiency are increased both for the client side and for Accenture itself.
The solution has several trainings and certifications from the best brands in the market. They worked with manufacturers that the customer trusts and that have a global history with success stories. For the projects carried out by Solutione, they always dialogue and listen to customers to be precise in the choice of technologies.
Satisfactory results
The various environments created with the audiovisual technologies described above allowed Accenture a complete experience with the approaches and solutions that only they can create. As Accenture projects are always broad and complex, the various spaces, when integrated, enrich that experience by behaving like an immense laboratory. In this way the client ends up experiencing everything before making the decision and leaves there with the certainty that he will achieve his objectives.
The results obtained reflect the benefits perceived by the client. These benefits include the flexibility of the environment to perform various Accenture simulations on its clients from the audiovisual systems. By allowing configurations of the most diverse, under an automation designed for this purpose, the client can create forms and scripts of presentations from the control rooms to the most creative forms of projections and interactions with RFID translating the audiovisual solution into a message of technology, innovation, and dynamism that the Innovation Center represents.
"Solutione has perfectly translated the need for space through the application of incredible technologies that surprised everyone," said Charles Vilela, IT Manager Operations at Accenture Brazil.
Project Overview
- Integrative firm: Solutione - Collaborative Intelligence
- Manufacturers (brands) involved: Bose, Cisco, AMX, Kramer, Samsung, Epson, and Smart.
- Professionals involved:
- Kleber Santos (service delivery coordinator)
- Alexandre Santana (field technician)
- Victor Radaelli (project coordinator)
- Ricardo Manzini (account manager) and the team.
- Company covered with installation (end customer): Accenture – Recife
- Installation dates: Q1 2017, final delivery April.
Solutione won AV Latino Contest 2017
The Brazilian integrator Solutione, thanks to the Accenture Innovation Center project, carried out in Recife, became the winner of the fourth version of the AV Latino Contest.
The award ceremony of the Contest was held on Thursday, August 10 at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, within the framework of TecnoMultimedia InfoComm Mexico 2017. Odair Tremante, CEO, and Ricardo Durão, CTO of Solutione, received the award.
The call for the AV Latino Contest was a great success this year, doubling the number of projects received in its 2016 version. To choose the five finalists, we had the opinion of three industry experts, who stood out among the postulates, the projects that stood out for their technical quality, innovation and size.
It should be noted that each of the finalist integrators, Digital Projections, Psychoacoustics, Smart Spaces, Yamaki and Solutione, was present at the awards in Mexico City.
As the winner of the 2017 AV Latino Contest, Solutione received:
- Recognition Trophy
- Ticket and hotel for one person to attend the Integrated Systems Europe, ISE fair, which will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in February 2018. In addition to the entrance to the academic program for him and his companion.
