Visualization Center for SOCAR

State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) is a national oil and gas company headquartered in the country's capital Baku. The center is an operations hub for production monitoring, rapid response and crisis management. It is also used by the company’s team to hold executive meetings, practice emergency scenarios and drills, host various conferences.

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The multipurpose visualization center can work as a single space but is also divided into zones to address the requirements and different objectives of a client. At the center of the space, there is a large boardroom zone that serves as the main space for high-level executive meetings, the reception of large delegate groups, large meetings with international partners. The space can be used to hold meetings on-site or in a hybrid format when some participants connect remotely and features:

5x2 video wall built with ten Mitsubishi 70HE120 projection cubes;
CRESTRON Matrix switcher;
Polywall PRO video wall control software bundled with Datapath controller with 12 input and output ports;

Two 75" FLIPBOX interactive panels;
Wolfvision document camera;
6 high-end workstations for employees.

The boardroom zone also includes delegates' workplaces equipped with personal motorized displays, and a SHURE MXC640 conferencing system branded specially for SOCAR. The Polymedia Azerbaijan team set up a special COVID-19 mode for the room when the boardroom table equipment can be adjusted to maintain correct social distancing requirements.

The Audio system is represented by Yamaha VXL1B-8 line array speakers driven by an Extron XPA2004 amplifier and is integrated with the Polycom videoconferencing system.

The visualization center improves the efficiency of the client’s work, monitors various operations and facilitates international-level meetings. Presently, the client successfully uses the visualization center for various solutions, including:

holding executive meetings both on-site and in a hybrid mode;
monitoring production activities on multiple manufacturing facilities (the production of diesel fuel and monitoring of all parameters involved in the process);