COMMAND & CONTROL CENTRES
We deliver integrated AV and display systems for mission-critical environments — enabling teams to visualise data, make informed decisions, and collaborate effectively across both physical and virtual operations centres.
Transform Your Operational Environment
In high-pressure situations, clarity, reliability and responsiveness are key. Our command and control centre solutions are designed to give you complete visibility and communication control. From security monitoring and utilities management to emergency response and transport networks, we build systems that integrate seamlessly with your infrastructure and support continuous operation.
We combine cutting-edge display technology, ergonomic workstation design, and intuitive control systems to create a reliable, future-ready environment.
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How Strive AV Can Help Build Your Command & Control Environment
Whether you're designing a new control centre or upgrading an existing facility, our engineers and AV specialists will partner with you to create a solution that enhances communication, efficiency and situational awareness — all tailored to your operational needs.
Command and Control FAQs
Q.How much does a command and control room cost in the UK?
A turnkey command and control room is typically £75,000–£500,000+ depending on size, video-wall specification, control complexity and redundancy. A small 3x2 LCD video wall with operator workstations and KVM normally lands at £75,000–£150,000 installed. Larger 24/7 security operations centres or utility control rooms with LED walls, redundant Crestron or Q-SYS control and dual-site failover typically run £250,000–£500,000+. We provide fixed-price quotes after a discovery and design phase.
Q.Which AV control processors do Strive AV install in control rooms?
We are vendor-agnostic and partner with the leading AV control platforms including Crestron (CP4, 4-Series), Extron (IPCP Pro, IN1804), AMX NetLinx, Q-SYS Core 110f/510i and Black Box Emerald KVM. The right platform depends on your room scale, the number of sources and destinations, integration with SCADA, ANPR, CCTV/VMS and whether you need redundant or dual-LAN architecture for high-availability operations.
Q.What kinds of operations centres do you build?
We design and install AV for security operations centres (SOCs), network operations centres (NOCs), traffic management and ANPR control rooms, utilities and energy SCADA rooms, transport and rail signalling rooms, emergency-services dispatch, broadcast master control rooms (MCRs), and corporate situation rooms. Each environment has different ergonomic, redundancy and shift-pattern requirements which we factor into the design from day one.
Q.How is redundancy and high availability designed into a control room?
Mission-critical control rooms are designed with no single point of failure. We typically deploy redundant control processors (active/standby Crestron or Q-SYS Cores), dual power feeds with UPS and generator backup, dual network paths on separate switches and VLANs, hot-standby video-wall controllers and redundant KVM heads. We also build remote monitoring with SNMP and alerting so faults are caught before operators see them.
Q.Do you integrate video walls with command and control systems?
Yes — video walls are usually the centrepiece. We design and install LCD, direct-view LED (1.2mm to 2.5mm pixel pitch) and rear-projection cube walls, integrated with video-wall controllers from Datapath, Userful, Hiperwall, Christie and RGB Spectrum. Operators can drag any source — CCTV, SCADA, web dashboards, ANPR, broadcast feeds — onto any tile of the wall via touch panels or KVM keyboards.
Q.What does an installation involve and how long does it take?
A typical control room install runs 6–16 weeks from contract to handover, depending on civils and lead times on LED walls or consoles. Our scope normally includes ergonomic console design, structured cabling and containment, video-wall mounting, control programming, KVM cabling, source integration (CCTV, SCADA, broadcast), commissioning, factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT) and operator training, plus a managed support contract for 24/7 environments.
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