April 19, 2013 - Bexel supplied a state-of-the-art custom equipment package for ABC‰'s interactive, real-time reality competition, The Glass House. As ABC's second in-house produced show, Bexel worked closely with the show to develop solutions that would help meet the demands of the aggressive, technically advanced 24-hour show. Bexel supplied more than 50 cameras for The Glass House, including close to 40 robotic cameras, seven fixed cameras and eight large studio cameras/handhelds for the show.

‰"The Glass House is a large-scale job that integrates some of the more complicated equipment that we own,‰" says Johnny Pastor, director of technical services, Bexel. "From rigging to the engineering and large router infrastructure this is an ideal project for us, as Bexel's expertise and experience is a perfect fit for these types of reality shows.‰"

The production also called for robotic cameras with infrared capabilities. Bexel turned to Q-Ball, Camera Corps‰ latest HD/SD pan-and-tilt camera system, combining both appearance and performance in the smallest system currently available. The Q-Ball incorporates a built-in 10x zoom optical lens and smooth accelerating pan/tilt motors in a sturdy, fully weatherproof aluminum sphere with a diameter of 115 mm/4.5in.For the project, Bexel also built a custom HD control room with a large fiber infrastructure and custom work benches for producers and loggers. A PESA router was utilized with a distributed audio routing system, which made the cabling very easy‰ requiring the team to simply interconnect everything using fiber.[sc name="news-footer"]