Security: Video

This article aims to provide concerned parties, such as customers, users, operators or consultants, with an overview of data privacy and protection related features of BVMS Person Identification. Moreover, this article describes how data, as processed during the Person Identification steps, can be classified. Finally, this article lists technical measures for data protection in the context of BVMS Person Identification.

As video surveillance use grows in commercial, government and private use cases, the need for low-cost storage at scale is growing rapidly. BVMS, Bosch cameras, HPE hardware and SUSE Enterprise Storage provide a platform that is an ideal target for recording these streams.

NetApp® from time to time provides new HDD firmware for the various HDD / disk models. In January 2024 an NetApp Knowledge Base Article was created that needs to be taken into consideration as well.

Starting from July 2024, it will not be possible to commission new devices via MAC address (Device Layer). Running devices remain untouched until end of life of Device Layer, but new commissioning will be only possible with Remote Portal devices from then on.

The support of Bosch Site Monitor App for iOS and Android devices will end by 31 st  of June 2024. Bosch Video Security App will be the replacement, which is available in the Google Play Store as well as the Apple App Store for download.

The BVRAdmin password is a password for a Windows user and needs to be changed accordingly, from Windows settings. Please be aware that if you have BVMS installed on your DIVAR, it is important to change in BVMS Configuration Client the iSCSI target password after this was changed for BVRAdmin user.

Find out what to do when you enable SingleKey ID and you are no longer able to connect to Remote Portal using the password.

The information regarding the ports can be found in BVMS – Configuration Manual (page 366), should the customer use BVMS as a VMS.

The calibration can be done by using already recorded videos, as is demonstrated in the video below. Either video recorded on the camera's SD card or on a recorder can be used. This can save calibration time and can be done by a single person.

Bosch camera's passwords must be a minimum of 8 characters including special characters

Starting with BVMS 12.2, new OpenID Connect (OIDC) login options have been introduced. When closing the Operator Client, the user can decide to completely log off or stay logged-in.

This interface is designed to provide applications an API for controlling Virtual Inputs. To access an existing Virtual Input the application has to know the unique authentication token of the Virtual Input which is used for both authentication and identification.

Global VCA under the VCA task in Configuration Manager is used from default on the camera (with no specific configured VCA Rules). VCA Profile: Global (from Positioning) is used to set the same height of the camera for all VCA profiles.

The default behavior of VRM is to redirect requests from "HTTP" to "HTTPS" via the HSTS setting. Never change VRM or any device settings via CM if they are managed by BVMS - BVMS will revert the settings back to previous state as set in BVMS Cc

The inconsistency in the tamper detection functionality could be due to various factors. Follow this article for more details.

Yes. Since the system does not have a valid SMA, the Central Technical Support team cannot perform the license transfer from one unit to the other.

At some point of the troubleshooting process, the customers might be asked to force the VRM to do a full initial discovery.

Follow the steps below to manage adding & syncing your Dropbox account and share your projects from Project Assistant with your associates.

OPC server is installed on the BVMS server OPC client software is installed (the client used in this article is Softing OPC Toolbox Demo Client), and the user can connect to OPC server that is running on BVMS server, but the user cannot send any command from 3rd party OPC client to BVMS system, for example changing the status of virtual inputs. There are no events coming from OPC to BVMS and the OPC client is not present in the list for third party integrations with BVMS

One of the reason for this error when trying to access the VCA Tasks/ Metadata Generation could be generated because of the configured tasks which exceeded the Script Size limit (limit=2000 bytes) and metadata cannot be read.