Wirtschaft in Ostwürttemberg April 2021

LOBO ELECTRONIC GMBH

AVard 2020 for experimenta Laser Safety Concept

As their new highlight in 2020, PROFESSIONAL SYSTEM, leading medium for professionals in the field of audiovisual system integration, honored enterprises with the so-called "ProAV Award Germany" – or "The AVard" for short – in various categories of product integration and intelligent AV solutions. In the category "Smartest Integration", LOBO managed to secure one of these new awards – first place for the multimedia laser equipment and the unique laser safety concept in the Science Dome of the experimenta in Heilbronn. To ensure the safety of the audience members during the laser performance the company from Aalen developed a sophisticated, one-of-a-kind laser safety concept. Integrated into the principle of the Digital Data Link (DDL® for short) developed by LOBO, two so-called LIDAR sensors have been installed near the laser projectors, acting as laser safety scanners. They send out a flat, invisible infrared laser fan, scanning the distance to potential obstacles – should an audience member leave their safe seat during a show and trigger one of these sensors, the laser sources are switched off automatically in the fraction of a second, thus preventing the audience from being exposed to laser beams with inadmissible radiation values. This "smart" implementation was definitely considered worthy of the first place, according to the ten-person AVard specialist jury made up of professors, architects and industry experts.