Centralised Room Control: Novastar Vunit 3000

Centralised control means driving every device in a room from a single interface. The Novastar Vunit 3000 is built for exactly that: screens, projectors, lighting, blinds, matrices and power circuits are all commanded from a phone, a tablet, a PC or a wall panel. It is neither an LED video processor nor a media player, but a programmable control processor.

The Vunit 3000 ships as a 19-inch chassis measuring 482.6 x 360 x 94.6 mm, around 11 kg fully populated, powered from 100 to 240 V at 60 W maximum, around an industrial 32-bit ARM Cortex processor. Its plug-in card design lets you build the exact interface set a project needs:

• VIT_Control Card: the main board, with one RS232 and RS485 COM port supporting DMX512 and Modbus RTU, ASCII or TCP, three relays, two I/O lines, nine infrared outputs, a CAN bus and a Gigabit Ethernet port.
• 7 x COM card: seven full-duplex serial ports, COM1 to COM6 as RS232 or RS485 and COM7 as RS422 or RS485, with every RS485 port DMX512-capable.
• 12 x relay, 6 x I/O and 3 x IR card: twelve circuits to switch or cut — motorised screens, blinds, projectors, power feeds, interlocks — plus six configurable I/O lines.
• 4 x HDMI 2.0 IN and 3 x HDMI 2.0 OUT card: a switching matrix up to 3840 x 2160 at 60 Hz with a 3.5 mm audio output, hosted in the same chassis.

This architecture suits integrators fitting out meeting rooms, auditoriums, control rooms, museums and showrooms. The chassis already includes a four-in, three-out video matrix and an independent audio output, and its 45 dB(A) noise level at 25 °C keeps it usable in a rack close to the audience. Operating range: 0 to +45 °C at 0 to 80 % relative humidity.