You could argue that the more information you have, the better decisions you can make. And to a certain extent, that is true. However, an overload of information can quickly overwhelm you and cloud your vision. In control rooms, handling information overload is a daily challenge for operators, one that can be made easier with operator workspace solutions, such as Barco OpSpace.
Since the early days of control rooms, operators have always relied on big overview screens to display data that cannot be presented together on the operator workspace. The overview video wall typically shows maps, grids, dashboards, graphs, and status overviews, which benefits everyone in the control room. Depending on the needs and requirements of the control room, this can be an LCD, LED or rear-projection video wall. In addition, smaller operator screens and workstations provide complementary information that enable users to focus on specific tasks and information streams.
In this article, we will focus on how they can see the bigger picture and work on the details.
