BARCO Strategic Alliance Solution Brief Instructions
- June 3, 2024
- BARCO
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BARCO Strategic Alliance Solution Brief
Bosch Security Systems
The Bosch Security Systems division is a leading global supplier of security, safety, and communications products, solutions and services. Protecting lives, buildings and assets is our aim. The product portfolio includes video surveillance, intrusion detection, fire detection and voice evacuation systems as well as access control and management systems. Professional audio and conference systems for communication of voice, sound and music complete the range. Bosch Security Systems develops and manufactures in its own plants across the world. Additional information can be accessed at www.boschsecurity.com.
Barco
Barco provides flexible and mission-critical visualization software and hardware products consisting of high quality displays, rear-projection and near-seamless LCD video walls, graphics controllers and a Control Room Management suite (CMS) – an advanced software for easy display wall management, efficient collaboration and fast decision making based on sharing the right visual information at the right time easily.
Bosch and Barco: a closer look
The Bosch VMS is an enterprise-class client-server based video management system with advanced user interface concepts for effective and efficient operation that provides seamless management of digital video, audio and data across an IP network. It seamlessly combines Bosch IP cameras, encoders, video management and recording systems, and various matrix switches, so there is never a need for an operator to worry about where the video is coming from. The Bosch VMS is built from the ground up with fast out-of-the-box deployment and easy to use configuration and operation in mind. Enriched by powerful VMS features, this makes it a strong solution. Setting the foundation from the beginning, one can easily grow when the need arises, while keeping the same user interface and recording format.
This capability is now being extended to Barco video walls. The Barco video wall controller will independently and natively decode the requested streams and populate them on the Barco video wall grid driven from within the Bosch VMS environment. The Barco video wall can be controlled in three ways: Barco’s Control Room Management suite software (CMS), Bosch VMS Operator Client, or a mix of both. Hence, Barco’s collaborative visualization platform is now seamlessly embedded in the User Interface of the Bosch VMS Operator Client, allowing to easily assign cameras to the Barco Video Walls in various layouts. All unique features of Barco CMS, such as display of Barco ProServer sources, fully flexible layout creation and push collaboration are still available via the Barco CMS Sidebar. This enables users to design the operational workflow that best suits their needs and allows smooth upgrades for existing customers.
Benefits
- Increased situational awareness due to the integration of the Barco visualization within Bosch VMS Operator Client’s workflow (ease of use).
- Reduced training time due to an integrated display management since operators can control the Barco video wall from the familiar Bosch VMS user interface. This greatly reduces complexity of operations and thus contributes to more efficient operation.
- Collaborative visualization through Barco CMS while working within the Bosch VMS (the power of two). When specific CMS features are needed, the operator can use them with the CMS Sidebar application, in addition to being able to comfortably select how the video sources are arranged on the Barco video wall from a list of pre-defined layouts inside Bosch VMS.
- Future ready due to unlimited scalability since the system can be scaled to display virtually unlimited numbers of VMS video sources on multiple Barco video walls.
- Easy and fast deployment of integration since connecting the Barco CMS RCP+ Agent to the Bosch VMS system is as easy as integrating a decoder by its IP-address.
Barco CMS Functionality within Bosch VMS
- Create a ‘Digital Wall’ in BVMS and assign the RCP+- Decoder to it. A CMS ‘Perspective’ will automatically be created for this ‘Digital Wall’.
- Create a ‘Digital Wall’ in BVMS and assign the RCP+-Decoder to it. A CMS ‘Perspective’ will automatically be created for this ‘Digital Wall’.
- Different pre-defined layouts can be applied by the operator to the ‘Digital Wall” to arrange various ‘sources’. An operator can then drag ‘Cameras’ to Digital Wall” in the Operator Client, which then would be available as ‘Sources’ in CMS, and automatically placed in the CMS Perspective’.
- In BVMS Operator Cient the operator has symbols for cameras and monitors (or a digital monitor wall) that represent the real cameras and monitors. When dragging a camera symbol onto a monitor symbol the BVMS system makes sure that the image of the real camera is displayed on the video wall.
Architecture
Solution requirements
- Bosch VMS – minimum version: 11.0
- Barco TransForm N system (installed/licensed):
- Barco CMS – minimum version: 3.15
- Windows 10 PC running the Barco RCP+ Agent
- EMS required in case of seamless switching functionality requirement
- Old and new source have the same codec
- Old and new source have the same resolution
- The RCP+-Agent – as the BVMS-System – uses the RCP+ protocol so encoders and cameras must be compatible with this protocol. In general, most RCP+ supporting cameras working with the Bosch BVMS will also be compatible with the RCP+-Agent and CMS. For confirmation on a particular brand and model number please contact Barco and Bosch for their interoperability lists or forward plans.
- Unicast and multicast cameras supported (network must support multicast in that case).
- Please always contact Barco and Bosch for needs analysis and documented quotations.
Request more information
- Maciej Wrobel – Product Manager, Bosch, maciej.wrobel@de.bosch.com
- Jan Noten – Technical contact, Bosch, jan.noten@nl.bosch.com
- Christopher Klepacz- Strategic Alliances Manager, Barco, chris.klepacz@barco.com
About the Barco Strategic Alliances program
Great products need great focus. That is why Barco allies with other top players in their fields of expertise to build the best solutions available. By combining complementary strengths, we can optimize the integration of the systems and offer one single system to the customer. This simplifies deployment, optimizes efficiency, minimizes reaction time, and reduces costs in a variety of selected professional markets. This creates a win/win situation for all parties involved, our customers in the first place.
More information? Please visit our dedicated webpage www.barco.com/alliances