efficiency is very high (up to 30% improvement). This
results in reduced-bandwidth streams that still retain a
high image quality and smooth motion. The camera
provides the most usable image possible by cleverly
optimizing the detail-to-bandwidth ratio via temporal
and spatial noise filtering.
Area-based encoding reduces unnecessary bandwidth.
Compression parameters for up to eight user-definable
regions can be set. This allows uninteresting regions
to be highly compressed, thus lowering bandwidth
consumption and storage requirements. Important
regions can be tuned for best image quality, thus
allowing the user to allocate bandwidth to important
parts of the scene.
Fast performance
The 60 images-per-second mode provides for optimum
performance in fast action scenes and is particularly
suitable for casino and banking applications.
Flexible lens choice
The camera comes with a choice of AVF (Automatic
Varifocal) lenses for easy installation. These SR (Super
Resolution) lenses have an advanced iris design to
ensure that the high resolution HD sensor produces
the sharpest image possible, even in the corners.
Simple installation
The camera has a very intuitive user interface that
allows fast and easy configuration. Six configurable
user modes are provided with the best settings for a
variety of applications:
• Indoor – general day-to-night changes without sun
highlights and street lighting
• Outdoor – general day-to-night changes with sun
highlights and street lighting
• Motion – monitoring traffic or fast moving objects;
motion artifacts are minimized
• Lowlight – optimized for sufficient details at low light.
• Intelligent AE (BLC on non-IVA models) – for people
moving in front of a bright background
• Vibrant – enhanced contrast, sharpness and
saturation
The automatic zoom/focus lens wizard makes it easy
for an installer to accurately zoom and focus the
camera for both day and night operation. The wizard is
activated from the PC or from the on-board camera
push button making it easy to choose the workflow
that suits best.
The AVF (Automatic Varifocal) feature means that the
zoom can be changed without opening the camera.
The automatic motorized zoom/focus adjustment with
1:1 pixel mapping ensures the camera is always
accurately focused.
Streams
The innovative multi-streaming feature delivers various
H.264 streams together with an M‑JPEG stream. These
streams facilitate bandwidth-efficient viewing and
recording as well as integration with third-party video
management systems.
An upright mode can be selected for the second
stream. In this mode an image of 400 x 720 (9:16
aspect ratio) is cropped from the full sensor image.
When the scene to be monitored is suitable to this
mode, the bandwidth and storage requirements are
reduced.
Storage management
Recording management can be controlled by the
Bosch Video Recording Manager (VRM) or the camera
can use iSCSI targets directly without any recording
software.
Edge recording
The internal MicroSD card slot supports up to 2 TB of
storage capacity. A microSD card can be used for local
alarm recording. Pre-alarm recording in RAM reduces
recording bandwidth on the network, or — if microSD
card recording is used — extends the effective life of
the storage medium.
Video Analytics
With built-in video content analysis, the camera
reinforces the Intelligence-at-the-Edge concept where
edge devices become increasingly intelligent. The
video motion analysis system that is built
into all camera versions is the perfect solution for
applications where standard video content analysis
features are required.
The IVA version of the camera uses the latest
generation of the Bosch Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA)
software. This IVA system is the guard-assistant
system of choice when reliable indoor or outdoor
video analytics is needed. The state-of-the-art system
reliably detects, tracks, and analyzes moving objects
while suppressing unwanted alarms from spurious
sources in the image.
The face detection feature detects faces in the scene
and forwards a high quality JPEG image of the best
shot of each face when the face disappears from the
scene.
Retrospective forensic search capabilities are available
remotely from the web browser or the Bosch Video
Client.
Regions of interest
Two Regions of Interest (ROI) can be user defined.
The remote electronic pan, tilt and zoom controls
allow you to select specific areas of the parent image.
These regions produce separate streams for remote
viewing and recording. These streams, together with
the main stream, allow the operator to separately
monitor the most interesting part of a scene while still
retaining situational awareness.
The IVA Intelligent tracker can also follow objects
within the defined regions of interest. The Intelligent
tracker can autonomously detect and track moving
objects or the user can click on an object which the
Intelligent tracker will then follow.
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