SENTRY Video Walls Chosen to Monitor the 2024 Olympic Games

Paris, France, July 24, 2024 – SENTRY Video Walls, a Business Unit of ScioTeq Group, is a leader in multilevel secured video walls, and ScioTeq Group is proud to announce this product has been selected for its state of the art technology for use in the operations headquarters for surveillance and monitoring of the 2024 Olympic Games. The Games will be held from 26 July to 11 August, and the Paralympic Games from 28 August to 8 September.

With a projected 15 million visitors expected to converge on Paris this summer for the Games and generating around 11 billion euros in economic activity, the combination of commerce and data will make these games a magnet for bad actors. The Sentry Video Walls will ensure superior information security, flexible real time video and images in which video can be distributed to any room and also allow for easy scenario selection as well as easy setup and use.

For my Center of Operation, the installation of a wall of eight screens in the Joint Operation Center was a major added value. These screens, whose layout is comparable to what can be found in operations, notably in American headquarters, made it possible for me to anticipate and monitor the build-up of the Olympic games, while at the same time being able to deal immediately with incidents and accidents in subordinate units, thanks to a copy of the Geovisu mapping software. It's clear that the installation of this system has improved the flow of information, boosted the responsiveness of the operations center's staff, and enabled us to take better account of the situations we were faced with. At the end of the Olympic games, in mid-September, when we return to the normall-situation format (Sentinelle operation), I recommend that this wall of screens be installed on the premises of the Quartier Général des Loges (QGL). In this way, the Sentinelle Joint Staff will be able, as was the case for us during the Olympic Games, to monitor delicate situations, coordinate the action of units in the field and have the tools needed to accomplish the mission right in front of them, for the entire CO.”, LtCol Sebastien, Chief of the Center of Operations.

For the Olympic headquarters, three SENTRY video walls and numerous standalone screens have been installed, totaling over 50 screens. This extensive setup will support the joint staff of the SENTINELLE operation, which is responsible for securing the French homeland and will be reinforced during the games.