With the latest release of its Building Integration System (BIS), Bosch Security Systems offers improved scalability and third-party integration, efficient video and access integration as well as improved situational awareness. Combining different building management functions in one platform, the BIS presents a flexible, robust, standardized interface to various subsystems. This proven solution integrates security, life safety, communication, and building management in one front-end system with a customizable user interface.
Integration benefits
BIS features optimized third-party integration that allows connections to even the most complex subsystems, including building management systems with such analog sensor values as temperature, power consumption or oxygen levels, which can now be graphically displayed on the operator client. So for example, by monitoring energy consumption or air quality and temperature, an operator is able to react much earlier and therefore, before a critical situation arises.
Now, with the update to version 3.0, video integration has been further enhanced. It supports any Bosch recording solution from DVR 400/600/700 to BRS plus the latest VRM version. At the same time, new video devices can be integrated much faster due to frequently updated driver packages. The system can now also act on events triggered by the Bosch IVA, such as automatically initiating an evacuation procedure if an abandoned piece of luggage is detected. Or, if a crowd is forming in front of an emergency exit during a fire alarm, additional exit options could opened.
Similarly, at the user level, many small but effective improvements have been implemented to increase the situational awareness and efficiency of the security operator. These include a much better correlation of alarms and related videos reducing the response time in critical alarm situations and handling large amounts of card holders in the seamlessly integrated access engine. Finally, version 3.0 heralds the next BIS generation with an up to date modernized user interface.