W-DMX at Super Bowl Village

W-DMX by Wireless Solution Sweden was used at the Super Bowl Village, where Indianapolis transformed the heart of downtown into a ten-day, three-block interactive festival of football. The Village entertained hundreds of thousands of visitors with live concerts, food and beverages, an ESPN broadcast studio, and even ziplines running down the main street.

Dodd Technologies of Pendleton, Indiana created a dazzling lighting design for the Village, using W-DMX by Wireless Solution to send a flawless signal to 134 Elation Platinum Beams with W-DMX cards built in. Nine W-DMX Pro Box F2500 sent signal with directional antennas.

96 of the Platinum Beams were spread out across three city blocks. At the beginning and end of each block there was a W-DMX transmitter, six in total. Each transmitter broadcast to half-a-block worth of lights and was fed with DMX from a grandMA2 port node. Fourteen Platinum Beams were used on the main stage, fed from a W-DMX ProBox.

On top of the 12-story-tall Pan American tower, an additional 16 Platinum Beams were positioned. Directional antennas were used to get the W-DMX signal to the top of the building, and then two transmitters were used as repeaters. Eight Platinum Beams were placed on top of the Indiana Convention Center and fed with a ProBox.

Jason Greene, Dodd Technologies' wireless technician and programmer explains, "We chose to use W-DMX because the number of fixtures, the fixtures' positions, and the weatherproof domes around the fixtures made running five-pin DMX impractical. The solution worked perfect in spite of high traffic and cold temperatures."