by Shane Henson — July 17, 2013—Facilities managers and security personnel seeking to better and more easily monitor their buildings and premises may find that Bosch Security Systems’ AUTODOME 7000 family of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras meets their needs.
The AUTODOME 7000 family includes indoor and outdoor dome cameras. With an abundance of features, AUTODOME 7000 outperforms other moving cameras to provide customers with a powerful, automated monitoring system that ensures security risks are not missed, says Bosch.
The cameras feature Bosch’s intelligent video analysis (IVA) software , which is designed to automatically process video signals and alert operators to security risks. A single AUTODOME PTZ camera can reportedly analyze up to 10 different scenes for loitering, line crossing and other criteria. Customizable to address the specific concerns of each customer, IVA enables earlier threat detection and improved overall security, says Bosch.
Bosch’s unique intelligent tracking technology uses advanced flow detection algorithms to monitor scenes for motion and to automatically track objects. Customers can define conditions that will instantly activate tracking—such as a vehicle moving through an area in a specific direction. Operators can also trigger tracking by clicking on a moving target within live video to prompt the camera to keep it in the scene. The camera is engineered to dynamically re-tune zoom settings to capture the most useful, highly detailed images of objects of interest as they move through the camera’s field of view.
AUTODOME 7000 also brings imaging to the next level with improved sharpness, more accurate color reproduction, and more detailed low-light images, says Bosch. The standard-definition Internet protocol (IP) camera offers 28x or 36x zoom, and the high-definition (HD) camera delivers 1080p resolution, 30 images per second (IPS) and 20x zoom. The HD camera also supports high-speed 720p resolution at 60 IPS for capturing fine details of fast-moving objects in traffic and city surveillance, gaming centers, toll plazas, gas stations and similar applications.
Designed using Bosch’s latest firmware release, CPP4, the camera supports quad-streaming to perform live monitoring and recording using up to four independently-configurable streams. While customers can record and monitor in HD resolution, the camera can also deliver reduced resolutions for bandwidth-friendly remote viewing. The new firmware provides a common software platform for many Bosch IP camera models, making it easier to install and maintain Bosch systems, says the company.
The cameras also support edge recording in combination with central storage for dependable performance. With up to two terabytes of storage via SDXC or 32 gigabytes with SDHC, the cards can be used for short-term or local alarm recording.
