Security systems integration, which dictates a diversity of reporting devices and communications tools, can create visual and physical operator stress, not to mention a fight over console and rack real estate. Digital security video has spurred the need for stronger, versatile racks to accommodate digital video recorders while, at the same time, newly designed consoles have rack spaces for LCD displays and even top panels for larger-yet LCD and Plasma screens.
According to the interior design experts at Winsted, Minneapolis, there are four essential elements to today’s technical furniture for security use: efficiency, ergonomics, modularity and aesthetics. One example is the firm’s Eklipse advanced console system, which was designed to accentuate benefits of flat panel display technology now hot with many security executives. In addition to an internal filtered air supply and convention-based cooling for temperature control, the system features what Winsted calls “softwash lighting” as well as a desktop power and communications box.