Luminex defends the Chinon fortress !

After 5 years of an intensive work of restoration, the Chinon fortress just reopened its door on the 17th of July. Achieved with a budget of 18 millions euros, this project was one the biggest restoration work in Europe. The Chinon fortress is a very iconic monument for France history, as several major events took place here. Chinon was even the center of the France kingdom for several years.
To celebrate the re-opening of the fortress, the Indre et Loir concil organized a massive light and sound show on Saturday the 17th of July. Damien Fontaine was committed to design the video, sound and light show. Following a successful collaboration in 2005 for the light fair in Lyon, Damien Fontaine contacted French Luminex dealer, Sonoss company, to care about the data transmission system. As the site was compose of a transmission site and 2 distant site located behind the river Vienne, there was no other choice than running a wireless lighting control system. Sonoss supplied 3 Ethernet-DMX8/W plus some high gain directional antennas to feed all sites with lighting datas.
Despite the very crowed audience (more than 10000 people), local television and thousands of cell phones, the system worked flawlessly, says the lighting operator.

Show Design: Damien Fontaine
Production Company: Système Son

Luminex Ethernet-DMX8 fight on WWE shows

Luminex equipment have been recently specified for the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) tour. Production designer Jason Robinson and North American production company Upstaging chose the Luminex Ethernet-DMX8 nodes in conjunction with their ArtNet based lighting control system. A total of 10 Ethernet-DMX8 converter are in use in the system: 4 units for the Green-Hippo media server (input / output), 6 units to convert the ArtNet protocol provided by the Chamsys desk (4 converters for the entrance way and 2 converters for the ring lighting). The WWE tour performs 2 live events per week, and will add twelve arena shows during the year.

Production Company: Upstaging
System Specifier: Tony Thomson
Lighting Designer: Jason Robinson

Luminex invited to the Swedish royal wedding

Hofmann Teknik AB and Ljusdesign Sverige were chosen to upgrade the lighting system of the Storkyrkan church in Stockholm. The system was upgraded for the televised wedding between H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel on June 19.
Hofmann Teknik specified a Luminex Ethernet-DMX2 for the installation. The unit is first used to convert the ArtNet protocol provided by Hofmann made HD-LMS software, and also to accept any DMX source for special events. The merging facilities of the Ethernet-DMX2 simplify the merge of the 2 control source.
"We chose the Ethernet-DMX2 to avoid CPU load in the touch panel PC, and for the Input/Output and merging facilities of the Ethernet-DMX2. They're also the most stable converters" said Patric Nord, Sales and Project manager at Hofmann Teknik.

System specifier: Hofmann Teknik AB
Lighting Design: Ljusdesign Sverige

Luminex shines in Shangai

The international Expo 2010 recently started in Shangai. Over 190 countries and more than 50 international organisations attend - and 70 million visitors are expected. This expo is the world biggest ever done.
Following this, the organization of the 2010 Expo had to create an outstanding opening ceremony. ECA2 Production company was appointed to manage two barges located on the river providing a water, light and laser display. Each barge embbeded an enormous rotating steel wheel fitted with LED, laser and water pump. ECA2 company invited Bernard Hamon from Adrem Solutions, French based company, to design and set up the complete data system. Due to the impossibility to run cable between the barge and the rotating part of the wheel, Bernard Hamon specified a Luminex wireless solution for the lighting control. Each barge was equiped with 2 outdoor access points, and one Ethernet-DMX4. The system worked flawlessly, though it was a very wet environment for the equipments !

Themed as "Better City - Better life", this Shangai expo is also a fantastic opportunity for countries or companies to demonstrate their know-how.
Cluster Lumière, French based organization of lighting designer, was invited by the Chinese organizer of the 2010 expo to care about the lighting design of the Best Urban Practice Area. The goal of this area is to demonstrate the world that a very old industrial area can be completely refurbished, redesigned and adapted, to become a colorful and sensational live space. The Cluster lumière designed a sound, light and video show, to illuminate the area.
Gl-Event production company, who is a part of the Cluster Lumière, was in charge of the complete sound, light and video installation. GL-Event requested the Luminex project management team expertize for the design of the large scale network infrastructure.
The network infrastructure is composed of kilometers of single mode fiber, and dozen of diverse converters. All fiber run from the main control room to the dozen of distant sites, spread all over the area.
Ten Ethernet-DMX2 MkII and ten DMX512-A Hub were installed for the lighting control network.
The 2010 Expo lasts from May 1st to October 31st 2010.

Opening Ceremony- Production Company: ECA2
Opening Ceremony- Data Distribution: Adrem Solutions
UBPA- Light Design: Cluster Lumière
UBPA- Production Company: GL-Events

Luminex appoints new dealer for South Africa

Luminex welcomes Metropolis Sound and Lighting in its dealing network.
Metropolis is an an entertainment industry based company specializing in establishing their clients requirements and working together to achieve excellence.
Metropolis will care about sales, training and support for the Luminex product range in South Africa.

Visit Metropolis Web site here