Mokuti Etosha

Mokuti Etosha is a lodge a few minutes from the Von Lindequist Gate, the eastern entrance to Etosha National Park. It is owned by the O&L Group and run by O&L Leisure, a long-standing client of our Namibia team. Its spaces include a conference centre, a pool bar, a restaurant, a gift shop and retail areas.

The lodge wanted to re-imagine its conference space and improve the pool and bar areas with audio and lighting that staff could control easily.

The new conference hall is spacious, so guests at the back had to see the speaker as well as hear them. Mokuti Etosha also did not want to hire a camera crew whenever a conference was streamed or recorded.

The old conference centre was demolished to make way for a stand-alone experience centre and a new divisible conference room. The experience centre has a Crestron wall-mount touchscreen, a Poly Studio video conferencing system and a 75-inch Samsung display, with wired and wireless presentation and bring-your-own-meeting video conferencing.

In the divisible room, Crestron partition sensors linked to a control processor change the room configuration automatically. Three 1Beyond AutoTracker 3 Presenter cameras, three 1Beyond PTZ cameras and four Sennheiser Team Connect Ceiling 2 microphones are controlled from a wall touchscreen.

At the pool bar, Audac ALTI surface-mount loudspeakers and Crestron SAROS in-ceiling loudspeakers run from an Audac CAP424 amplifier, controlled by a Xilica Lucia 2 wall controller with a Xilica Solaro QR1 DSP. The restaurant has a Crestron DALI interface and keypad for central lighting control. The retail and pre-assembly areas each have two Audac CIRA 8 ceiling loudspeakers and a Lucia 2.

Everyone in the conference room can see and hear the speaker, and remote participants are better included. Sven Thieme, Managing Director of O&L Leisure, says: "The refurbishment has truly elevated the entire authentic Mokuti Etosha, Africa reimagined experience."