Neat-O: A Plastic Surgery Makeover

Several of the employees at Englewood, Colo.-based Logic Integration refer to this installation as "The Boob Job."

The nickname, however comical it might be, sticks because the job took place inside a plastic surgeon's office.

Logic Integration was contracted to integrate 12 zones of audio, 10 LCD TVs, a Niles ICS and eight security cameras -- along with a camera server and DVR (up to four months security footage can be viewed remotely via the Web) -- into The Colorado Plastic Surgery Center in Littleton, Colo.

The main surgery room, says Logic Integration CEO Shawn Hansson, contains some of the job's most unique elements. The doctor wanted to be able to have music and digital media available during surgery.

"The main surgery room has an iPod dock and 2 LCD screens," Hansson explains.

The surgeon also wanted to be able to take digital photos of his work with a Cannon SLR camera and have those images immediately displayed on 47-inch screens throughout the operating room for nurses and support staff to see.

Logic Integration's lead integrator Benjamin James saw to it that the doctor's vision was played out.

"He is now able to wirelessly transmit the images," says Hansson. "Those images are then immediately saved onto the main office server in the client's file."

James added LCD screens and audio zones to the surgery center's outpatient rooms, bathrooms, patient prep quarters, lobby, hall and front desk.

"The doctor is kind of a creative guy," Hansson admits. "He had a fake fire in the lobby -- including crackling sounds -- on a 52-inch screen, running off a Blu-ray player."

The project took about nine days, according to Hansson. "That's prewire, trim and programming." There wasn't much programming though.

"Niles is a pretty easy program," he says. "All of our techs can program one."

Installing all of this technology into a plastic surgeon's office, says Hansson, posed a few challenges for James. For one thing, the end result had to be conducive with a very sterile environment.

"The doctor didn't want to see speakers, iPod docks or keypads," he says. "No equipment on the counters."

In the end, though, the doctor was quite pleased. "The only thing he mentioned," says Hansson, "was that he wished he had done HDMI, even though they would have been long runs. We ran RES RGBHV."

The main reason not to include HDMI, Hansson says, was cost. "But he's still considering it."