The Barco solution
Barco (CTRL, TransForm ranges) offers premium control room solutions, powerful but costly.
High-end video walls · alternative
An alternative to Barco.
Barco equips high-end control rooms, often at very high budgets. EMD drives comparable walls at a fraction of the price, on new or reused displays.
- Refurbished & warrantied
- Sovereign software
- No subscription
With EMD
For many rooms, EMD does the job at around a tenth of the budget: multi-source, scenarios, remote control, no subscription.
Why used
The right hardware, without the extra cost.
Barco walls and displays can be found used; EMD can drive them, or run a far cheaper new wall.
- Up to 10 times cheaper
- Reuses your existing displays
- No subscription
- Sovereign, French support
REFURBISHED
+ EMD
guaranteed quality · controlled price
What Barco does, and for whom
Barco is a Belgian group specialising in visualisation technologies. For control rooms, it offers image walls (rear-projection cubes, LCD screens, LED panels), wall processors and software platforms for sharing and supervising sources, such as the CTRL and TransForm ranges.
Its customers are large operational centres: energy, transport, public safety, industry. These are generally integrated projects, designed to run day and night for many years, and delivered with a service contract.
Where the budget goes over ten years
In a room fitted with a complete proprietary chain, the budget does not stop at the purchase. It includes the dedicated controller, the licences, annual maintenance, then the replacement of the whole at the end of support. Software, controller and sometimes screens are linked: changing one element often means changing the chain.
With us, the software is bought once: a perpetual licence, paid only once (Control, €1,911 excl. VAT, see the prices), with no annual fee.
The rest is standard hardware, new or refurbished, which you replace piece by piece, from the supplier of your choice.
What we do differently
Easy Multi Display is a software publisher, not a hardware manufacturer. Our Drag & Drop software runs on a standard PC, under Windows or Linux, and drives from 1 to 40 screens on direct output, more with image wall controllers. Each wall is divided into 24 zones at most, saved as scenarios.
The sources are those of a command room: HDMI capture of business workstations, RDP remote desktop, VNC session, network streams, cameras, websites. Everything works with the network and the Internet cut. CollectivView even displays up to 40 HDMI sources with no network at all between the screens.
Keeping your Barco, or complementing it
A Barco wall in service may still have many years ahead of it. If your screens work, keep them: a PC equipped with Easy Multi Display feeds them, directly or through an image wall controller.
Barco walls and screens can also be found second-hand, and our software can drive them. To study your room, write to us.
Frequently asked questions
Barco and Easy Multi Display: your questions
Short answers to the questions we are asked most often about this equipment and about how we drive or replace it.
Can Easy Multi Display drive an existing Barco image wall?
Yes, as long as the screens accept a standard video input: a PC running Easy Multi Display feeds them, directly or through an image wall controller.
How much does a software alternative to a Barco wall cost?
The Easy Multi Display licence is perpetual, paid only once (Control, €1,911 excl. VAT). The hardware is standard, new or refurbished, and priced separately according to your room.
Do I need a subscription or an Internet connection for Easy Multi Display?
No, neither. The software, installed under licence, works locally, with the network and the Internet cut, with no subscription and no online account.
Can second-hand Barco screens be driven with Easy Multi Display?
Yes, Barco walls and screens are available on the second-hand market and our software can drive them. A single licence covers up to 40 screens and 24 zones per wall.
A project around Barco?
Tell us your need: we find the hardware and equip it with EMD.