Bosch Video Management Software (2024)

A transportation hub, like and airport or train station, needs to be able to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This also applies to the video surveillance system: when operators, for whatever reason, are not able to view live and/or recorded video the transportation hub could be shut-down. This in turn would result in mayor delays for potentially millions of passengers.

Now, the high resilient system architecture of BVMS protects against multiple failure scenarios. For example, with BVMS installed in a metro, failures of important system components do not affect the monitoring within the stations and in the operations control centre (OCC). The system operates independently even when communication lines are disrupted.

BVMS can integrate other systems such as radar and face recognition. This allows the operator to have one interface to receive alarms, process them, and ensure that security guards can effectively follow-up. Alternatively, BVMS can be fully integrated into external systems, like a Physical Security Information Management system (PSIM), using the OPC interface or BVMS SDKs.

BVMS is installed in the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, the railway station in Minsk and the metro in New Delhi.

• Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow
• Railway station in Minsk
• Metro in New Dehli

Critical infrastructures ensure that we have warm water, energy and even ensure our safety. Thus, it is crucial to ensure the right functioning and continuity of these facilities.

A video surveillance system enables operators to spot incidents and prevent operational downtime of the facilities. BVMS allows an operator to do his job without any disruptions. The high resilient system architecture of BVMS protects against multiple failures in system components, so these will not impact the basic functionalities of the video surveillance system.

Perimeter protection systems, like Bosch cameras equipped with Intelligent Video Analytics, fence detection or radar systems, enable the operator to process all the alarms from a single user interface. The built-in alarm management capabilities ensure that operators have access to the right information at the right time. Alternatively, a Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) system can be used to fully control BVMS.

• Panta Rhei South-North Water Transfer Project in China
• JANAF Oil Pipeline in Croatia

Reducing shrinkage improves business performance, contributing to the bottom line of a retailer. There are many types of shrinkage such as theft, vandalism and supplier fraud. Being able to effectively investigate case-by-case enables retailers to optimize their processes and prevent future losses. Additionally, intelligent alarms enable local security guards to intervene whenever it is required.

BVMS allows a loss prevention manager to effectively access up to 10,000 sites from a single operator client, of which he can connect up to 20 sites simultaneously. Dynamic Transcoding is used to ensure access to High Definition images even when limited small bandwidth is available.

Bosch Panoramic cameras can be connected to the system to provide a cost-effective coverage through-out the store.

• Several Metro Cash & Carry stores throughout Germany and Russia
• Dedeman in Romania

Providing a reliable logistic service is a real challenge. Customers require an on-time delivery and expect the shipments to be complete. Additionally, a lot of high-value goods are stored in a warehouse, which makes it an attractive target for thieves.

BVMS allows warehouse operators to effectively reduce the effort in tracking down theft by combining the alarms coming from intelligent cameras with the information which is stored within their warehouse management system. This same interface, between BVMS and the warehouse management system, can be used to ease the investigation into customer complaints.

• Several Bosch warehouses throughout the globe

Compared to other systems BVMS allows for maximum resilience. This means continuous live and playbacks – no matter what happens.

While other systems require you to add redundant components to create a resilient system, the BVMS offers several levels of resilience out of the box. As a result, cameras keep recording and streaming live video even when multiple system components fail simultaneously.

At the rate that video cameras are evolving, keeping track of an ever-growing amount of high-resolution video data is becoming even more challenging. In places like metro stations and airports where many cameras are needed, the burden on a workstation is very high. If a workstation is overloaded, the client application will often lag. This is a great obstacle for security operators who need to view many cameras at once in order to maintain a complete and uninterrupted overview of a location, such as an airport terminal.

GPU decoding

With BVMS a superior client performance is possible by accelerating the decoding capacities of the graphics processing unit (GPU). In this way, multiple ultra-high resolution (UHD) videos can be displayed in parallel without consuming CPU (Central Processing Unit) power.

Streamlining

With the technology "streamlining", a BVMS user is able to keep multiple Ultra High Definition (UHD) cameras open without having to worry about slowing down the application. This technology automatically shows the optimal video resolution on the screen. If an operator needs to view many cameras simultaneously, BVMS automatically uses a lower-resolution stream. When enhanced pictures are required to zoom in or view on a full screen, for instance, a higher-resolution stream is automatically chosen. This feature uses the multi-stream capabilities available on Bosch IP video cameras and runs on existing workstations.

Thanks to the software’s motion and forensic search function, even a huge recording database can be scanned for a specific event within seconds. It is possible to search for any motion in a selected area or use enhanced search function to find events in recorded video data such as objects within, entering, or leaving an area, objects traversing a route, objects loitering in an area, removed objects and more. And search rules can be changed even after an event.

For example, once a theft occurs, a store’s security manager can easily define a specific perimeter, meaning the area or even a specific shelf in the store from where the item was stolen. The video database can then be very quickly scanned for any suspicious activity that occurred within that perimeter. BVMS will deliver the section of the video recording showing that particular event to the user’s desktop or note-book screen within seconds, so there is no need to watch hours of recordings trying to find the exact moment when the object was removed from the shelf.