The Benefits Of Control Room LCD Monitors

When it comes to equipping out a contemporary control room surroundings such as Police or Ambulance control room, a power station, or even an air traffic control room then these days you would be daft not to look at using Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitors than older style cathode ray tube (CRT) screens.

They win out over CRT screens, which are now virtually impossible to buy from new, in plenty of ways.

First CRT screens tubes are made & filled with gasses that are unfriendly to the environment, & in general they cannot be recycled fundamentally as they were never designed with this thought in mind. So there is the major "Green" issue to think about.

Secondly they are far more reliable than CRT screens, & in the event that they do breakdown they can be swapped out far more quickly due to their lighter weight & smaller size (Thus also making it simpler to store spare ones).

They are well suited for use in these situations as they take up far less space, & they also benefit from pin sharp display qualities making them simple to read, & thus minimizing the risk of critical knowledge being miss-read. In addition they work well under all forms of lighting.

In an large room that may have several dozen LCD monitors, they also have major advantage over traditional CRT screens & that is the low amount of energy that they use. You may wonder why this is an advantage, well with a CRT screen using up to,000 watts, & LCD monitor using 300 watts, means that in a control room with say 40 monitors, then the energy saving per hour would be 40 x 700 = 28,000. So by using LCD monitors in lieu of CRT screens, would mean using 28kW less per hour energy.

However there is as well as a double advantage to this, as control rooms are often busy places where operators need to have the most comfortable surroundings feasible to focus on their jobs, & this is the heat saving. By switching to LCD screens you have 28kW per hour less heat for the air conditioning to deal with. This means not only do they save energy directly, but also indirectly as air conditioning costs are lowered as well.

These are a variety of the key reasons why LCD monitors are now used widely in control rooms the World over.