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Vicon Industries will shortly be supplying its digital multiplexer recorder,
the AurorAcorD, to a brand new IKEA store on the outskirts of Florence.
IKEA stores worldwide attract over 140 million visitors. With additional revenue from its subsidiary, Habitat, the company currently turns over $12.62 billion. There are seven IKEA stores in Italy and the new Florence site looks set to become the flagship. With 65 million copies published in 20 languages, the IKEA catalogue claims to be the world’s second most widely read publication after The Bible.
Vicon’s AurorAcorD is an innovative combination of multiplexer and digital video/audio recorder which allows 16 channels of video to be recorded to the unit’s hard drive in a variety of settings for recording rate, sensitivity and quality.
Recording-time is maximised by a Wavelet compression algorithm which
condenses video information without compromising quality. In addition, the audio utilizes a similar codec compression scheme to optimize recording times and limit the effective bandwidth to 6 KHz.
At the Florence IKEA store, AurorAcorD will be recording images from Vicon’s Surveyor 2000 dome cameras. The site will also benefit from Vicon’s 1422 matrix, a micro-processor-based unit designed to control a variety of CCTV systems with menu-driven configuration programmes and computer-style keyboards.
The unit to be installed at IKEA, Florence, is the V1422 model. It has a maximum of 32 inputs and 8 outputs with the option for RS-232 interface.
The installer for the application is FGS Brescia. The contract award owes much to Vicon’s strong local presence. Mr Celestino Gheoni of Vicon’s Milan office, comments: “IKEA have a tradition of external control and surveillance with the focus being on protecting vehicles as much as merchandise.”
He continues: “On this project we have worked closely with the Italian software house, Cides, to link CCTV systems to the access control installation. We have adopted an open attitude to exchange of protocols and will be feeding intrusion alarm signals direct to the CCTV control room.”
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