The new Video Management System 8.0 (BVMS 8.0) from Bosch offers stitching, GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) decoding and 64-bit function. These all allow surveillance operators to respond to incidents by monitoring a greater number of video cameras at once. The BVMS 8.0 supports the latest ‘fusion’ dual-sensor optical-thermal cameras.
The Bosch Video Stitcher combines video from multiple cameras into a single. It stitches multiple high-resolution cameras into a single panoramic view, allowing operators to monitor, for example, the stand in a stadium or airfield in an airport, as a single camera. A user can still zoom in and out as needed, but does not need to switch back and forth from one camera to another. An operator does not need to know which camera is tracking what specifics or where a camera is, and how it is linked to the surveillance network. The user can configure the stitched view; up to 16 cameras can be stitched together.
Security and IT departments typically equip security operators with multi-monitor workstations or video walls for situational awareness. The need to render more cameras on multiple displays usually means a strain, and more processing power needed to decode video images as the number of cameras increases. By using the decoding capacities of the GPU, multiple ultra-high resolution (UHD) videos can be displayed in parallel without consuming CPU (Central Processing Unit) power.
BVMS 8.0 runs as a 64-bit application, up from 32-bit in its previous versions. This raises the maximum capacity of a single BVMS from 30 management servers with 100 cameras per server to 50 management servers with 200 cameras per server. With the introduction of Bosch H.265 video compression, cameras can reduce bitrates. With BVMS 8.0, users are able to configure Bosch H.265 enabled cameras, allowing them to reduce greatly bandwidth and storage needs.
Bosch’s new MIC IP Fusion 9000 camera combines – among other features – an optical lens with a thermal lens; which means surveillance can continue even in a smoke-filled room (with the thermal lens giving video while the optical lens is blocked out). BVMS 8.0 allows operators to switch between the optical and thermal view. One of the two streams (depending on which one is open) can be dragged and dropped into a new cameo.
