Walgreens Selects Ionit Digital Video Recording System

Drugstore operator Walgreens has completed installing and networking Ionit Technologies’s digital video recording system to monitor, manage and protect over 6,200 stores, facilities and distribution centers across the US.

Ionit Technologies, whose advanced compression technology is claimed to provide its clients with digital video recording (DVR) systems that improve the performance and reduce the overall cost of managing video, has designed real-time based custom software for the chain’s digital video recorders located in each store.

Using Ionit’s advanced recording CODEC, the technology can compress data up to 2,000 times and interface with both analog and digital cameras. This new DVR system has the capacity to add more cameras, as needed per location, Ionit said.

Jim Talbot, Ionit Technologies’s CEO, said: “The number one concern for businesses today is physical security – keeping employees and customers safe. Walgreens sees the value in using Ionit systems for business intelligence with add-on modules that will increase not only customer safety, but the customer’s experience in their stores, as well.”