Jordan’s largest and most prominent mosque use to broadcast regularly its religious services for worshippers at home; this new integration of robotic camera control aims to capture not only religious services but visitors flows and other events

The project of the live TV studio was funded by the Royal Hashemite Court (RHC), who also managed the tendering process and supervised the commissioning of the project. The robotic systems officially went live on March 20th of this year, 2023.

The King Hussein Mosque, as the largest and most prominent mosque in Amman, Jordan’s capital town, offers a fully functioning TV studio that provides live broadcasts of important events such as Friday prayers, Holy Eids and Ramadan. That studio and the building’s main prayer room now include robotic camera systems from Telemetrics, an innovator in robotic camera control.

The new equipment consists of five HP-S5 robotic Pan/Tilt heads installed throughout the mosque and a RCCP-2A control panel to operate and adjust the cameras as needed. The project also included installation of a Telemetrics PT-WP-S5 weatherproof camera system on the building’s roof for unique POV shots.

“The five cameras are distributed inside the main hall of the mosque recoding live video footage from different angles without distracting the worshipers from performing their religious duties,” said Omar Hikmat, Founding Partner and CEO of local systems integrator HEAT. “This is very important in Islam to show respect and dedication to God.”

Hikmat added that the mosque staff has found the equipment easy to use and like the results it is providing.

“The client is very happy, and all of the equipment is working very reliably.”

For those looking to improve operations efficiency while reducing costs, the PT-HP-S5 Robotic Pan/Tilt head—with its Advanced Servo technology—is the ideal choice as it offers smooth motion, whisper-quiet operation, and improved production values for venues like the King Hussein Mosque. The rugged construction of the PT-HP-S5 Camera Head is perfectly suited for daily use in applications where support of mid-to-heavy payloads of up to 40 pounds is required.

In addition to a variety of features for programming and launching creative and consistent camera moves, the RCCP-2A Robotic Camera Control Panel offers Telemetrics’ exclusive reFrame® Talent and Object Tracking software that, using special artificial intelligence algorithms, automatically keeps the talent in frame at all times.