Fiera Milano Group

Fiera Milano is Italy’s first trade fair company and one of the biggest in the world. It leads a group of 12 companies and is engaged in exhibition space management and provision of essential services, supply of value added services, and the organisation of exhibitions and congresses. Fiera Milano hosts some 70 exhibitions every year attracting more than 30,000 exhibitors.

fieramilano

The group’s fieramilano site is one of the world’s leading exhibition spaces in terms of technology, logistics, quality and size. It consists of eight huge pavilions with a total indoor exhibition space of roughly 345,000 square metres, and an additional 60,000 square metres outdoors. The centre provides excellent facilities, cutting edge technology and 14,000 parking spaces for visitors who do not travel directly to the complex using the Milan underground.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

The fieramilano exhibition centre has over 440 cameras monitoring the entire fair district. The challenge its management faced was to connect these cameras to a central control room using high speed transmission, without losing any image quality. In order to solve this challenge, fieramilano started looking for a partner in fibre communications who could ensure high quality, and high speed connectivity for hundreds of image streams. It was UTCFS, with its expertise in fibre communications that provided fieramilano with the ideal solution to their problems.

UTCFS’s solution

UTCFS successfully integrated the site’s 40 fixed and 400 dome cameras into one network using 120 pairs of four channel IFS multiplexers working on multimode fibre communication. This setup ensures higher image quality, faster data transmission and enables transmission over distances up to two kilometres. The signal of the PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom), used to operate these dome cameras, is transmitted separately using a specific type of data transceiver. In order to optimise cost efficiency, data and video signals are separately transmitted. The wide range of products in the IFS catalogue allowed UTCFS to provide fieramilano with a cost effective and high performance solution to its needs..