Control room
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- This is about control rooms in general; there is also a 2004 documentary called Control Room.
A control room is a room serving as an operations center where a facility or service can be monitored and controlled. Examples include:
- in television production, the master control room is an operations center for a network or station, or the production control room of a television studio;
- each recording studio typically has its own control room where the recording is actually made;
- a NASA flight controller works in a "Flight Control Room" in a Mission Control Center; affiliated facilities such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have their own control rooms;
- Nuclear power plants and other power-generating stations have control rooms;
- Various military facilities, ranging in scale from a missile silo to NORAD, have control rooms.
- Call centers use a control room to monitor incoming and outgoing communications of customer service representatives and provide general oversight of the call center.
- Fire service control rooms (UK) see: FiReControl for article about nine new regional control rooms to handle emergency calls in England.
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