A screen that is 418 meters long and 3 meters high was put up along the walkway by the Dubai Fountains last week. It may be the biggest LED project of the year. This summer, the famous water show is getting some repairs done, so a new draw had to be found. Now there is the longest (semi-)permanent outdoor LED display in the Gulf.
Every year, about 100 million people visit the Dubai Fountains. Emaar, the huge real estate company that owns the Burj Khalifa and all the stores nearby, didn’t want to let them down. So, they hired Blue Rhine Industries, a company that had already worked on a number of projects for Emaar. One of these projects was the installation of the biggest indoor LED display in Dubai, which is located above the Dubai Mall Aquarium.
The outdoor screen, which is made up of 1,450 square meters of Infiled LED panels with a 3.91 mm pixel pitch, was designed and put up in just 60 days by Blue Rhine. The mounting system had to be made just for them. It was a 16U rack with 19-inch rails and electrical lines that were made just for them. The whole screen is powered by a generator, which is a common way for projects in Dubai to be done. They used software from Spinetix to share the material.
Blue Rhine didn’t connect the screen to the ground because it is only there for a short time. Instead, they used 222 pre-made concrete blocks. Heavy-duty cranes had to be used to carefully place each block. The set-up also has places for four engines, two of which are running and two of which are backups. All of the data and fiber optic cable connections, as well as switches and signal distribution, had to be put in from scratch. During busy times, more than 30 engineers, techs, and project staff worked on-site in shifts. Two or three teams ran the business 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Original news from Sixteen Nine: https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2025/06/18/worlds-longest-outdoor-led-lights-up-by-dubai-fountains/
