The Mohegan Sun is a premier entertainment and gaming facility in Uncasville, CT. The 2007 upgrades to the background music and paging system were designed and programmed by the applicant. The system provides control of 196 zones utilizing a Media Matrix NION processing core and distributed QSC BASIS nodes. The project utilizes a Cisco network infrastructure and Cobranet for digital audio transport between the various amplifier rooms.
Updates began in 2015 to upgrade the system to Qsys. The 275,000 sq/ft. ballroom and meeting spaces were the first to receive the upgrades.
A inmportant need for the end users was scheduling of music sources and volume levels. A custom application was developed to integrate the familiar Outlook calender interface with the complex background music system. The result is the Outlook Calendar Command Interface (OCCI). This application allows users to schedule events in outlook, then using a custom VB integrated form create various music and volume scenes within the event.
Winner of the 2009 ProAV Spotlight Awards.
The feature bar includes a custom fabricated mounting bracket for 360 degrees of HDTV coverage.
The Poker Room includes a distributed HDTV system consisting of dozens of displays. A sight line study was conducted to ensure that the majority of patrons had a view of at least one display.
The highly themed environment required careful engineering to maintain speaker coverage, while keeping loudspeakers above the themed elements.
Ballroom QSys UCI
Meeting Room QSys UCI
Room Control Page QSys UCI
The project included a complete upgrade to the system head end the entire property is controlled by a highly intuitive GUI
Color coded zone maps allow a quick status view of the system. Clicking on a zone will open up advanced controls.
A custom form was created and deployed in Microsoft Outlook allowing simplistic creation of muliti-scene events within a standard Outlook Calendar appointment.
A Visual Basic application was created which parses the outlook calendar and sends commands on cue to the Media Matrix. The program allows technicians to see upcoming events and confirmation that an event has successfully completed.
