Security: Video

In this article, the technology behind IVA Pro Buildings, IVA Pro Traffic and IVA Pro Intelligent Tracking will be explained, as well as the differences between each other, and towards the more traditional IVA Pro Perimeter and classical IVA.

With the DSA E2800 Bosch introduced Multipathing. It is a fault-tolerance technique that defines more than one physical path between the camera and its iSCSI storage devices through redundant network connections. When using this feature, recording of video data and replaying video data is possible even in case of an iSCSI controller failure. To ensure also that outages of infrastructure equipment (e.g. Switch) could be covered, we recommend following Interconnection.  

This article describes the easiest method for adding Expansion shelves to a Base unit DSA E-Series E2600, E2700 or E2800.   This article also applies when: The amount of storage is overloaded and you need additional storage after fully populating the base shelf.   Article requirements: 1. Configuration Manager 2. Configuration Client which is included with BVMS 3. Santricity Software   Step-by-step guide      

BVMS v10.1 and  BVMS v11.0 come with a checkbox where you can logon to the Operator Client with Windows Credentials. If you want to use this function, you need to set up the BVMS Configuration Client and browse the AD users-groups. Then, the users can sign in to Operator Client with their Windows-Credentials. 

Find out from here what is VCA (Video content analysis) and how you can stop this setting.

In order to increase system security in BVMS, it is recommended to set the Global CHAP password. This article contains the configuration steps for an existing fully operational BVMS 11.x system with no CHAP password configured.

Port Mapping Table dialog box displays the port mapping for the IP addresses of the configured devices in your BVMS. Be aware that this option was removed starting with BVMS 11.1

Find out from this article in which situations the MAC address cannot be found or only part of the address is correctly extracted in Project Assistant when scanning a QR or Data Matrix code

Follow this article and find out what to do if the Bosch VRM Monitor page does not open correctly, but instead displays an Error and the video is always Black.

This article describes how the integrity of BVMS software can be checked.

This article informs about improvements in firmware handling and new security mechanisms that help our customers to increase security related to firmware updates and IP camera protection.

This articles gives a short introduction to scripting alarm and counter tasks with Intelligent and Essential Video Analytics in FW 7.60. It also provides a broad selection of example scripts for explanation as well as including real world application examples.

This article describes which camera settings influence the performance of Essential or Intelligent Video Analytics in Bosch IP cameras, and what the best practices are.

This article describes the camera tamper detection options available with FW 6.30: Scene too dark / bright, global change, reference image check.

This article provides an overview of object classification, describes how to configure it and what the limitations are.

BVMS - Automatic login of Operator Client: The BVMS Operator Client can be automatically logged in by using parameterized startup.

Want to know how flexible BVMS can assign streaming profiles to cameras?

Use the project assistant to commission multi-camera projects and generate project reports. Available for Windows and iOS and Android. 

This article summarizes the BVMS design details, and serves as a guide to planning a BVMS system with Bosch cameras and storage. It focuses on BVMS combined with the VRM.