Vicon says that its new Virtual Matrix Display Controller (VMDC) is designed to provide a complete solution for control centres running video and situation management software to monitor and control IP camera streams.
“The VMDC takes control room management and display of IP camera streams to new levels,” said Richard Allen-Miles, Vicon’s Sales Director for the UK and Ireland. “Comfortably the most powerful and flexible virtual matrix system currently available, it’s also remarkably easy to use. It supports 1080P High Definition viewing and H.264 compression. It is fully scalable and allows instantaneous access to recorded footage displayed adjacent to live video with genuinely easy to use drag-and-drop functionality.”
With megapixel cameras increasingly being specified as part of CCTV, the VMDC provides a display solution that brings high-definition video to the viewing experience. It decodes JPEG4, MPEG4 and H.264 video for display on 16:9 and 4:3 high definition monitors and is compatible with IP or serial keypads and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
A single VMDC unit supports up to six high-definition monitors displaying multiple video streams – up to 128 IP streams can be handled by each controller with up to 64 on each monitor output – with each monitor offering a variety of camera display configurations. Multi-layer graphical maps can be used to represent cameras and alarms. Control of additional monitors and camera streams is as easy the firm says as connecting extra units to the network, providing a fully scalable, cost-effective management solution.
