i've been tasked with working out a solution for one of the facilities in my lab. it's a mixed reality training environment where live people can experience a two way interaction with virtual people (i.e. you're shooting at a guy on a screen. he shoots back but you can duck behind a physical wall and not get hit). the physical walls are standalone set pieces built pretty much the same way standard wood framing is done. top-down, all the wall are L or U shaped and can be fit together in various way to create different scenarios and rooms. part of this effort involves tracking these wall segments so they can be accurately represented virtually. part of this tracking requires powering devices on top of the walls. right now, they are just testing the system using extension cords and power strips. very annoying to change when the walls change and not a very good permanent solution.
ideally, i'd like to install a permanent wiring solution that allows for a few walls to be daisy chained together using standard connectors between them and eliminating the chance of live plugs just dangling in the breeze.
picture below is just a first pass at explaining the concept and a possible (as in possibly shitty) solution.
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wiring the outlet boxes with three wire conductor and conduit is not the challenge. i'm mostly concerned with getting the power from the exterior walls of the room to the first wall segment. what kind of conductor can safely "extend" existing wiring? same question for linking a few wall segments together. thoughts? should they just instal ceiling drops in the room?
