IPT - Projects

Our Scope – We were appointed by Arsenal Football Club as their Information Systems & Venue Technology Design Consultants. Throughout the project life cycle we worked as an integrated part of the Design Team which included Sir Robert McAlpine and HOK Sports Venue Architects. Our prime objective was to ensure that all IS&VT disciplines were accounted for in creating an resilient, scalable and flexible infrastructure that would allow AFC to take full advantage of all Commercial opportunities while at the same time enhancing the fan/visitor experience. We dealt with a wide range of technology disciplines which included the following:

Structured cabling
Cable pathway
Technical space
Telecommunication services
UPS & Generator support
Power loading schedules
Network Infrastructure
Wireless Connectivity
LAN HD Video distribution
Wide Area Network (WAN)
PABX Voice Communications
Internal Cellular/PMR/RF Communications
External Cellular Communications
EPoS -Retail
EPoS - Hospitality
Audio description system.

Turnstile Access Control & Smart Card Integration.
Life safety Ingress count
Large screen provision & software controls.
Pitch side LED advertising boards & software controls.
External LED information boards
Satellite transmission & reception facilities
Outside Broadcasting – Cabling infrastructure & related technical spaces.
A/V Facilities - HD Conferencing suite.
Player tracking system.

Interesting Facts – The stadium was built on a brown field site in Islington, North London. The stadium boasts 150 corporate boxes and a diamond Club which can offer it's members 160 seats “to enjoy the beautiful game”. The stadium has 2 main server rooms, 26 satellite communications rooms, 3 TV studios and a HD TV production suite. The stadium is fully hard wired for outside broadcasting, and incorporated one of the first full HD on LAN video distribution systems streaming to 460 LCD monitors.