- Components Actually Installed by ATOM
- UUU
After the completion of all specialized systems ATOM was selected by the buildings facility manager Facilitect as a subcontractor to operate and maintain the following special systems:
- Media Walls
- External Lighting (Façade Illumination)
- Clock & Pediments LED Systems
- Clock Mechanisms & Clock Hands
- Retractable Lightning Protections
- Photovoltaic System
- Beacon Lights
- Flash Lights
- Laser Lights
- Crescent Hatch
- Fiber Optic Network
- IT Department
- BOCC
ATOM’s team of engineers and technicians are now responsible for the smooth operation of this marvel of engineering and technology which includes multiple one of a kind systems and world firsts. Interesting facts about these specialized systems can be found below:
Media Walls
Contain 1,208,904 of LEDs
Have 2,200 square meters of screen surface
Have 76,398 LDMWs in a single network
Have more than 12,000m of fibre optic cable
East and west media wall have 6 doors per side
External Lighting (Façade Illumination)
Clock & Pediment LED Systems
Clock Mechanism & Clock Hands
Retractable Lightning Protectors
Photovoltaic System
Beacon Lights
Flash lights
Laser lights
Crescent Hatch
Fiber Optic Network
IT Department
Contains of 1702 Luminaires
81,200 KW Connection Power
187 meters altitude difference (Astronomy 1 to Crescent)
Work takes place under high risk conditions
Contain 700.000 LED points
Have 7,000 square meters of facade illumination
Have 4,122 LDMs in one network
The biggest clock on the world
The biggest clock hands in the world in which a technician can walk upright
Selection of Class I protection because of the extreme height and the special location any stroke of lightning with an amplitude up to 200 kA can be catch caught and earthed
The complete lightning protection consists of 800 fixed lightning rods and 20 retractable Franklin rods
The upper area of the Jewel is fitted with 288 solar panels, generating the four clock units’ power
The system consists of more than 11,000 photovoltaic cells
The generated energy provides power for the four clock drives for a sustained continuous operation and feeds a large battery used as UPS
The power of the rotating beacons which are installed on the Mecca Clock Tower are comparable to the 10 rotating beacons of the French Eiffel Tower
The beacon lights are the only one 10 KW beacons worldwide
10 KW beacons have never been installed a such height or on a Tower
60 beacons installed across four different levels
Each of them is a custom-made product with 7 KW and 10 KW XENON illuminates
21,000 green and white sparkling software controlled lights installed on the tower give the possibility to run various illumination scenarios for different occasions
Each of the fixtures contains a 30-joule XENON flash bulb and 10 flashing green LEDs
The most powerful lasers in the world
Total of 4 beams, each beam is 3.7cm wide, the widest beam in the world
Each beam has a performance of 400 Watts
The laser beam reaches beyond the atmosphere
The crescent hatch at the Hilal (on the Top) is designed to protect the interior and the equipment in case of bad weather conditions
The hatch can be open for any kind of services (crescent service crane and switching of external lighting at night)
Over 20 kilometers of fiber optic cable to be maintained
single and multimode fiber optic cables installed
different termination plugs
Responsible for:
Installation
Software development
Improvement and operation and maintenance of “Building Operation and Command Center” (BOCC)
Providing 24/7 support for all subsystems
Establishing and introducing of O&M of multimedia installation on the exhibition
20 IT rooms with IT equipment spread across the entire building
Installed network is cross-linked from the building entrance on the ground floor to the Hilal at a height of 600 meters
Core-network with over 50 IBM and Cisco enterprise class switches interconnecting all subsystems
Entire network consists of over 1000 nodes (switches, firewalls, servers…)
IT department works with Telecom class copper and fiber optic installation
Using testing equipment → FLUKE and FUJIKURA
IT Department is developing the design for future projects:
– wireless HD CCTV system for external monitoring of clock faces and media walls
– central environmental monitoring system of all IT rooms
– modern virtualized working environment for all ATOM employees
– internet connection for the Makkah Time Institute NTP Servers