Dual InfiLED 9 x 5 metre MV Series screens have helped deliver 8,000 nits of outdoor brightness to revamp the Le Mans stadium fan experience.
Famous for the 24-hour endurance race that defines its global identity, the city of Le Mans pairs that motorsport prestige with a beautifully preserved medieval centre and a proud tradition of large-scale events. Central to this culture is the city’s Marie-Marvingt Stadium, a 25,000-seat arena that hosts more than 100 events a year, from football and rugby to concerts.
When the stadium’s aging LED screens began to fall short of thestandards expected at a venue like this, management enlisted French integrator Auvisys to plan and deliver a modern replacement. The result was a pair of InfiLED MV Series LED displays.
The brief from the stadium was direct: Replace the existing screens with a brighter, more dynamic LED technology that would also be capable of delivering a significantly better image. The new displays needed to hold attention and enhance engagement for every kind of event on the calendar, including live sport footage, instant replays, concert performances and more. They also needed to perform consistently across the full range of lighting conditions a busy outdoor stadium encounters, like bright afternoon sun or theartificial illumination of floodlights in the evening.
Before specifying any new hardware, Auvisys had to confront a more immediate obstacle. The mounting brackets supporting the old screens had corroded over time, leaving the existing infrastructure in need of attention. The team sandblasted, repainted and modified the brackets to bring them back up to standard, a process made more straightforward by the fact that the InfiLED MV Series panels are considerably lighter than what had previously been installed.
“The existing mounting infrastructure had deteriorated over the years, and that was the first challenge we had to resolve,”confirms Christophe Vallee, general director of Auvisys. “Because the MVSeries panels are so much lighter than the previous installation, wewere able to work with the existing brackets rather than replacethem entirely. It wasa practical approach that kept the project ontrack."
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