by Shane Henson — December 5, 2012—Bosch Security Systems Inc., a supplier of equipment for the global electronic protection and communications systems industries, has announced the latest release of its Bosch Video Client 1.4 (BVC) viewing client and storage software.
BVC lets users view images from multiple cameras and encoders on a single PC monitor and easily archive video clips. According to Bosch, its newest version offers a number of enhancements—including improved search and support for advanced features of Internet-protocol (IP) cameras—to give customers more control over their video systems. The new version also adds support for Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) conformant cameras and an expanded range of storage solutions.
With version 1.4, customers can conduct forensic and event contextual searching for Bosch’s intelligent video analysis (IVA) and benefit from the new automated tracking feature for AutoDome 700 and 800 series cameras, says Bosch. Intelligent tracking uses AutoDome’s built-in IVA to constantly monitor scenes for motion and automatically track objects moving within the camera range. Customers can stipulate conditions that will instantly activate tracking or click on a moving target within live video to trigger tracking.
The software also adds support for the regions-of-interest feature for live and recorded video. This allows the user to zoom in to a specific area of an image and transmit it in a separate stream, so both the overview and detail can be seen at the same time.
Customers can use dual monitors for easier viewing and assign live camera streams to cameos on the second monitor. BVC displays live video from up to 20 standard definition, high definition (HD) or megapixel cameras simultaneously and features visual adaptive cameo tiles that dynamically change to support the HD 16:9 aspect ratio. Live camera streams can also be displayed on a monitor wall.
The Video Client software from Bosch is simple to install, easy to configure and intuitive to use, adds the company. Cameras can be quickly configured for most common lighting conditions, while allowing individual settings to be adjusted to obtain optimized results for a specific scene. Favorite views can be defined and named by each user and are easily accessible, offering one-click display of related camera images.
