Video Encoder turns analog cameras into automated detectors.
Press Release Summary:
Providing H.264 compressed video and built-in hardware accelerator for Intelligent Video Analysis functionality, single-channel Model VIP-X1XF generates 2 independent, full-frame-rate, full-resolution video streams per camera, enabling 2 video streams to be recorded simultaneously on different media. Embedded into encoder, IVA 4.0 video content analysis software enables unit to autonomously detect suspicious behavior such as loitering, idle objects, object removal, and line crossing.
Original Press Release:
Bosch's New VIP-X1XF Encoder Offers Best Quality H.264 Video and Advanced Features for Smartening up Analog Cameras
Bosch Security Systems introduces a new single channel video encoder that smartens up existing analog cameras by transforming them into powerful automated detectors. The encoder delivers best-quality H.264 compressed video and has a built-in hardware accelerator for Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA) functionality.
The powerful VIP-X1XF encoder is capable of generating two independent, full-frame-rate, full-resolution (25IPS@4CIF) video streams per camera. This enables two video streams to be recorded simultaneously on different media offering maximum flexibility and redundancy - for example, centrally on iSCSI drives managed by the Bosch VRM (Video Recording Manager) as well as redundantly on local media such as an SD card.
The encoder's H.264 compression reduces network load by up to 30% compared with conventional compression technologies, such as MPEG-4. Bosch's low-latency main profile H.264 implementation offers all the compression benefits for live video, without sacrificing image quality.
Bosch's video content analysis software, IVA 4.0 (Intelligent Video Analysis), is embedded into the encoders, enabling them to autonomously detect suspicious behavior including loitering, idle objects (left at scene), object removal and line crossing. To meet the increasing market demand for better images with less demand on network and storage resources, combined with "intelligence at the edge", IVA 4.0 runs on a dedicated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) hardware accelerator to process the entire video in real-time.
IVA 4.0 is a licensable option that includes head detection to more reliably detect humans and the FLOW 4.0 motion vector algorithm that identifies activity through the movement of pixels in the scene instead of motion against a 'learned' background. FLOW 4.0 technology improves IVA performance in busy or continuously moving scenes like escalators, rivers and coastlines, roads and crowds. IVA 4.0 also features a new interactive two-minute calibration tool that provides immediate feedback to the installer for easier programming.
With Bosch's proprietary Bilinx support built-in, the VIP-X1XF also ensures optimum investment protection for users migrating from analog to IP. Customers can continue to remotely configure analog cameras and control pan-tilt-zoom functionality without any additional cabling.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, some 275,000 associates generated sales of 38.2 billion euros in fiscal 2009. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 300 subsidiaries and regional companies in over 60 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is repre¬sented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for growth. Each year, Bosch spends more than 3.5 billion euros for research and development, and applies for some 3,800 patents worldwide. With all its products and services, Bosch enhances the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial.
The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as "Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering." The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-two percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, an industrial trust. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by the trust. The remaining shares are held by the Bosch family and by Robert Bosch GmbH.
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