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Polywall Drives the Remote Operation Control Center at ENGIE Energía Perú

Centralizing supervision of six power plants and a national transmission network from a single control room in Lima

ENGIE Energía Perú S.A. is a part of global ENGIE Group and one of the country’s leading electricity generation and transmission companies.

Integration of the Remote Operation Control Center (CCOR) at ENGIE Energía Perú in Lima — a video wall environment built on Polywall Enterprise software running on a Screenwall controller. The project was delivered by ThinTech Peru.

ThinTech Peru is a Lima-based AV technology distributor and integrator specializing in video wall, digital signage, and video collaboration solutions for professional environments.

ENGIE Energía Perú set out to build a Remote Operation Control Center that would centralize supervision of six renewable energy plants (618 MW combined capacity) and more than 600 km of power transmission lines in a single control environment — giving operators real-time visibility across all assets nationwide and ensuring continuous, secure operation from Lima.

CUSTOMER

PROJECT

PROJECT GOAL

BACKGROUND

Before the project, ENGIE Energía Perú operated a control room constrained by the size of its video wall and by the operational capacity of its users.

The room was roughly half the size of the current one and relied on a single video wall paired with a hardware-based KVM switch shared across eight SCADA workstations. Operators had to move physically between stations to access different systems, and there was not enough screen space to display all six plants at once.

Those limits made it impossible to supervise all six renewable plants as a single operation. The company decided to build a new Remote Operation Control Center to bring every plant and every transmission line onto one set of walls, under one interface in order to optimize and expand its monitoring capacity across all of its plants.

SOLUTION

The selected solution runs Polywall Enterprise on a Screenwall SW700 controller — a combination that allows ENGIE Energía Perú to drive five video walls from a single machine and to replace the hardware KVM switch with software-based KVM-IP control.

Through Polywall Lens, operators access the SCADA software on dedicated workstations directly from the video wall, without leaving their seats or switching between physical stations. Polywall made it possible to centralize, from a single interface, the management of the control room’s video walls of different formats — 26 panels in five configurations, all connected to a single Screenwall controller. Because the software and the controller were integrated as a single delivered platform, CCOR operators moved onto the new environment quickly.

Capabilities that shape day-to-day work in the CCOR:

Operator desktop capture. Polywall Streamer captures the three operator desktops over the network and places them directly on the video walls.
Keyboard and mouse control from the wall. Polywall Lens gives operators KM control of the sources displayed on the video wall, from a browser and without dedicated KVM hardware.
Remote sources under full KVM-IP control. RDP and VNC sources projected on the walls can be operated remotely, so operators can act on an event without leaving the control position.
Five walls, one controller. Five video walls in different configurations — 26 panels total — are driven and managed from a single machine and a single interface.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Control room software: Polywall Enterprise
Video wall controller: Screenwall SW700
Hardware: Chassis 4RU rack-mount; CPU Intel Xeon W5, 12 cores; RAM 64 GB DDR5 5600 MHz ECC; Storage 2×480 GB SSD RAID 1; GPU 2×NVIDIA RTX A4000 — 8×DisplayPort 4K outputs with active StarTech DP-to-HDMI adapters; Capture cards 20×HDMI 4K inputs; Redundant PSU 1000 W; OS Windows 11 IoT LTSC 64-bit
Displays: Samsung VM55B-U, 55", 26 units, DisplayPort daisy chain. Configurations: 3×2 (5760×2160), 5×2 (9600×2160), 1×2 (1920×2160), 3×2 (5760×2160), 2×1 (3840×1080)
Infrastructure: Controller in data center alongside SCADA workstations; video walls fed over 40 m HDMI fiber optic cables; 8 SCADA workstations under KVM-IP control (Polywall Lens); 3 operator desktops captured via Polywall Streamer

RESULTS

The new Remote Operation Control Center has strengthened ENGIE Energía Perú’s ability to control and monitor all six renewable plants from Lima, letting operators manage the room’s resources — video walls, SCADA workstations, and source feeds — from their seats instead of moving between stations. The results confirm the value of running Polywall Enterprise on a Screenwall controller in mission-critical energy infrastructure.

Faster response to events. Operators act on SCADA alerts directly from the video wall instead of moving between workstations — cutting average response time by approximately six minutes.
Greater SCADA visibility. Five video walls now display 26 sources simultaneously, up from 15 in the previous setup.
Full KVM-IP coverage. All eight SCADA workstations are under KVM-IP control via Polywall Lens, giving operators keyboard-and-mouse access without leaving their seat.
Room to grow. The architecture can be extended with additional sources, walls, and workstations as ENGIE’s renewable portfolio expands.

The CCOR operates 24/7 with six operators working in three shifts.

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The new CCOR exceeded every technical requirement ENGIE set for the project. Operators went from walking between stations to controlling everything from their seats, and they can see all plants on the walls at once. The flexibility of the Polywall platform means ENGIE can scale further as the portfolio grows.

Elar Herreros Guerrero, Commercial Director, ThinTech Peru