Curling Camera: Live CCTV Camera TV Display for Curling Club
CCTV Camera Pros designs curling camera systems to display live video of the overhead view of “house” areas on curling sheets. Curling club players and spectators can enjoy a real time live view of the game from a lounge / viewing area via large screen TVs. You can have a dedicated TV for each house camera. You can also combine the live video feeds from both of the house views on a single TV monitor, and you can also do both.
A customer recently contacted CCTV Camera Pros for help designing a live camera TV display system for The Navan Curling Club in Ontario, Canada. The curling club had a very clear vision of how they wanted to use security camera to display live video of the Ice Sheets on multiple 43-inch Flat Screen TVs that are mounted in the lounge area. They required a dedicated display monitor / TV for each of the 4 ice sheets. Note, I was contacted more recently to help another customer in Canada for a curling club camera system design.
The curling club also wanted the ability to switch views from a single camera view of the “house” at one end of the sheet to a two camera, 50/50 split screen view of both “houses” at either end of the “house” simultaneously.
Here is a picture of the lounge area at the Navan Curling Club where the live video of all 4 ice sheets are displayed on the 4 TV monitors. The 2 Camera Split display is currently selected on the multiplexer.
Please continue reading about the details of this project below. Please contact us you are interested in a free consultation for your curling club or any other type of business that can use a live video display system.
Curling Club Camera System Design
Here is another curling club camera system that I designed for another curling club in Canada. This customer contacted by in 2025. This particular curling club also had 4 sheets. The club wanted to install a camera above each house for a direct view. For each house camera, they wanted a dedicated TV for display at each end of the sheet to display live video feed of the house at the opposite end of the sheet. In addition, they wanted 4 TV monitors in the lounge area that would display a split screen of the two house cameras for each sheet.
This is the design that I recommended for each sheet. This is how it works.
- Install a Viewtron HD-Q12 1080p CCTV camera above each house facing straight down. These cameras have a 2.8-12mm adjustable lens which allows you to zoom the angle of view into the house even if your club has high ceilings.
- Each house camera is hard wired to a HDCV-3-T BNC to HDMI converter so that the live video can be displayed directly on a standard HDMI TV.
- The BNC to HDMI converters have a BNC loop output so that you can also send the video to a second device (besides the HDMI TV). That BNC loop output is used to send the video signal to a VM-HD4 4ch CCTV video multiplexer. The multiplexer allows you to display the video of both house cameras on a single TV via split screen.
- RG59 coax CCTV cable is used to wire the cameras to the converter, and the converter loop output to the video multiplexer. BNC crimp on connectors were used for the end of the coax cable.
- The HDMI output of each BNC converter is connected to the dedicated TV for each house view.
- The HDMI output of the CCTV multiplexer is connected to the TV in the lounge for the split screen / dual house view.
This setup was installed for each sheet and all 8 CCTV cameras were powered using one of these CCTV power supply boxes. The team at CCTV Camera Pros has now helped dozens of curling clubs in the USA and Canada with camera system designs for their clubs. Please contact me at mike@cctvcamerapros.net if you need help. We can design a custom camera system for your club.
CCTV Video Multiplexer
To display the video from multiple cameras on one monitor, CCTV Camera Pros supplied (4) VM-HD4 HD security camera multiplexers. This devices is also known as a CCTV video multiplexer. The VM-HD4 model can display up to 4 cameras on a single TV monitor. The cameras are connected to the BNC video inputs using RG59 coax cable. There are HDMI and VGA video outputs that support 1080p resolution, as well as a composite BNC video output for analog video display. We also have 9 camera and 16 camera multiplexers available for installations that require live display of more than 4 cameras on a single monitor.
Above you can see the front and rear of the VM-HD4 HD Color Quad Processor.
HD CCTV Camera
The Viewtron HD-Q12 1080p CCTV camera is now our top recommendation to capture the high definition video of the ice sheets. CCTV Camera Pros supplied (8) of these cameras to our latest curling club customer, one to monitor each house. This high definition camera was the best choice because of the 2.8mm to 12mm varifocal lens. This allows the installer to adjustable the angle of view / zoom level between 111 to 36 degrees. When mounting to a ceiling, you can really zoom in nicely on a perfect the view of the house.
Live Video Display System Installation
Below is a basic wiring diagram for a 4 camera live display system. Only 2 cameras were paired with each multiplexer for the Curling Club installation.
You can learn more in more details about about how-to setup a live camera display system here.
Curling Club Ice Sheet Video Display
Below are some additional images of the monitor / TV displays of the ice sheets.
This is the single camera, full screen of the “house” on the ice sheet.
The video display of the monitors can be switched between single camera and dual camera / split screen views using the wireless remote control that is included with the VM-HD4 multiplexer.
Here is a 2 camera Split Screen View of both ends of an ice sheet.
Custom Live Video Display Systems
CCTV Camera Pros specializes in custom video display systems that are not constrained to surveillance applications. We also have these pre-made live camera display systems available here. Below are some related project categories we have helped to design and implement.
- Tennis / Racquet Club video display systems
- Billiard League / Pool Table video display systems
- Bowling League/ Bowling Lane video display systems
- Gym / Fitness Club video display systems
- Gun Range video display systems
- Bingo Hall video display systems
- Curling Club video camera display system
- Dance Studio video display systems
- Manufacturing Process video camera monitoring systems
More food for thought. These live video display systems are an affordable means to increase the spectatorship and engagement of the given activity throughout your establishment to customers and members that are not physically near the lane, table or court. Thereby, potentially increasing your customer or membership retention and recruitment. You can also connect some or all of your cameras to a Surveillance DVR to double as a security system.
Video Demo
Please click here to see a video demo of the VM-HD4 multiplexer.
Questions / Additional Help
If you have any questions about setting up a curling camera system or need help designing any type of security camera system, please email us at info@cctvcamerapros.net or call us at 561-433-8488. We design custom systems for customers worldwide. We have designed video camera systems for many applications, other than security.
