Resorts World Las Vegas is the first resort built on the Las Vegas Strip in over a decade. The almost 88 hectare property houses 3,506 guest rooms and suites in three different hotels, over 40 first-class restaurants and drinks, a theater with 5,000 spectators and a two-story restaurant and shopping promenade. It is equipped with an AV-over-IP system that visionary Power supply via networked audio and video.
“Resorts World Las Vegas has built what is probably the largest AV-over-IP network of its kind,” said Scott Freshman, Visionary’s chief operating officer. “It encompasses almost every part of the property with more than 2,000 endpoints, and the trend is rising. The size and scope of the project brought several AV integrators together, each taking on specific areas of the huge project. It is unique that so many integrators who were once competitors come together to put this wonderful project together. “
Las Vegas-based Technology West Group was selected to oversee the design and implementation of the entire AV system and facility-wide network specifications. Richard Reisig, Vice President of the Technology West Group, worked on the design of the “Podium”, the west tower, the district and all outside areas. “A critical component in a network AV system is the network. The Resort World Las Vegas network includes over 2,000 PacketAV endpoints and 2,000 QLAN channels, ”said Reisig. “The number of endpoints continues to grow as we expand the system. It’s a very large, purpose-built network designed to deliver gigabit non-blocking bandwidth end-to-end to any location on the property with less than a millisecond of latency. “
Unique to Visionary, the PacketAV endpoints enable internal device VLAN tagging. Because of the complexity of the network and the various protocols, including video, QLAN, Dante, AES67, DMX, and control, it is important to separate traffic for effective network management. “Given the size and complexity of the network, VLAN tagging was critical to us. Especially on the scale we’re getting, you can’t have 2,000 devices on a single VLAN network and just hope it works, ”said Reisig.
Visionary also developed a custom bluetooth enabled wall plate encoder that was implemented throughout the system. The encoder combines high-performance 4K UHD video and Dante / AES67 audio embedding and de-embedding over a single Gigabit Ethernet port. With Bluetooth 5.0 for extended range, faster data throughput and reliable connections, the Duet Wall Plate Encoder supports bi-directional smartphone connectivity for soft codec web conferencing AV integration to eliminate the need for separate bridging hardware.
Each guest room has an intuitive One Touch Living AV system. “The scope of the project was to design the technology in the rooms to improve the guest experience,” said Corey Brushia, president of One Touch Living. “Our goal was to create an environment that would allow guests to interact with the rooms and the property. Visionary made a conventional HDBaseT matrix superfluous. With Visionary we were able to network from anywhere to anywhere. “
National Technology Associates was selected to provide technology integration in the public areas on the first floor of the resort, including the hotel lobbies, registration, casino, gaming areas and underground levels. Shane Snell, Project Manager at National Technology Associates, said, “One of the biggest challenges on this project was scale. The property has nearly 2,000 video endpoints and thousands of speaker channels. I am not sure if it is possible to distribute these components other than over the network. Each system can now reach each other because the audio and video integration is in the same network. We have standardized Visionary and QSC in order to optimize communication between the technology components. “
Resorts World Las Vegas was designed to be one of the largest AV integrations on the Strip. The building can carry a signal from anywhere on the property and distribute it to the 100,000 square foot LED screen (one of the largest LED building displays in the United States), the theater, casino, or anywhere else on the property, and vice versa. The resort also has a state-of-the-art, 5,000-seat immersive theater. Scéno Plus, a Montreal-based theater design firm, was tasked with creating the design, and Solotech was selected for technology integration.
Sébastien Larose, AV designer at Scéno Plus, said: “We have over 150 televisions in theaters. The ability to broadcast the content over the network and use a single CAT5 cable allows us to simplify the system. We have Visionary endpoints almost everywhere because Visionary allows us to receive a signal from anywhere and transmit it to anywhere on the property. “
Solotech was selected for the design build for the Zouk Nightclub, Ayu Dayclub and the associated restaurants and lounges at Resort World Las Vegas. “We have a mix of displays in the restaurants, cabanas and bungalows in the day club and night club. We integrated Visionary’s endpoints into all of these areas to give the guest simplified control to choose between sources and have content delivered to those endpoints, ”said Aaron Beck, Business Development Manager at Solotech.
Visionary’s efficient endpoints use standard PoE power. This differentiator ties in directly with the sustainability initiatives of Resorts World Las Vegas. By integrating standard PoE power, Resorts World Las Vegas can lower energy consumption and save tens of thousands of dollars per year for project life.
As the first resort on the Strip in over a decade, Resorts World Las Vegas has the natural advantage of creating the most technologically advanced resort experience in the city. Visionary’s AV-over-IP technology and standard PoE have enabled Resorts World Las Vegas to deliver a networked AV matrix at a fraction of the cost of traditional AV distribution methods. There are no matrix switchers anywhere on the property.
