A control room is a room serving as an operations centre where a facility or service can be monitored and controlled. Examples include:
- in television production, the master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations, television networks and color suites.
- 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, Particle accelerator laboratories, and other power-generating stations, many oil refineries and chemical plants have control rooms, sometimes also serving as an area of refuge;
- 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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