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Bosch: The Value of Fire Alarm Systems for Sustainability

MEC Updates — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 03:19:09 +0000

Can fire alarm systems foster sustainability? Yes. This can be accomplished by stopping emissions, conserving resources, and saving energy.

Every time fire occurs in buildings or industrial establishments, it leads to economic damage. Aside from this, fire also brings harm to the environment and thus endanger life and health. For this particular reason, it is evident that fire alarm systems make a valuable contribution to the pursuit of sustainability. Other aspects such as durability, flexibility, and remote monitoring also help ensure that Bosch systems protect the climate and resources.

Fire Alarm Systems Prevent Emissions

Fires always contribute to air pollution. Emissions are comprised of particulate matter, smoke, and soot particles. It becomes even more dangerous when materials burn and release emissions that are extremely harmful to our environment and our health. Bosch fire alarm systems have a critical role to play in preventing the spread of fires in buildings and facilities all over the world because of the high reliability and speed they possess.

In tough environments such as industrial locations or the waste and recycling industry, a video-based fire detection solution brings further advantages. The unpredictable assortment of materials and substances in these areas and the conditions and operational activities turn them into hazardous environments with constantly high fire risks. Small button batteries, aerosol cans, remains of cosmetic or cleaning products, cigarette lighters, or defective gadgets form an unsafe mixture. The flames are likely to be fed nonstop by the waste itself and dry, dusty conditions on ignition. This permits fires to scatter over a broad area within minutes, posing a danger to life and the environment with the flames toxic billowing smoke from burning chemicals or materials.

Solutions from Bosch such as the AVIOTEC fire and smoke detection cameras are aptly designed to cater to the conditions at production facilities with extensive storage locations. They keep constant watch for the first signs of flames or smoke, whether day or night, outdoors or indoors. This allows swift fire and smoke detection and thus also prevents harmful emissions.

Fire Alarm Systems Conserve Resources

Whether recycling materials, goods, technical equipment or whole buildings, fire alarm systems help to conserve invaluable assets. In the case of Bosch solutions, however, the prudent use of resources is also apparent throughout the entire life cycle of these systems. They are designed to be backwards compatible. This means that if your current infrastructure is still functioning well, Bosch solutions can still be integrated into your old one.

The long-lasting design of all components produces the basis for a very lengthy service life even under harsh operating situations. This is ensured by Bosch’s decades of R&D experience and extensive testing in their own labs beyond normative requirements. As your needs evolve, you may add new technologies, extensions, and replacements to current installations thanks to the systems’ progressive compatibility and openness. This protects the installation of these fire alarm systems and ensures their longevity.

Fire Alarm Systems Save Energy and CO2

Until now, all fire panels and peripherals had to be installed, maintained, and updated on-site. Integrators of fire protection systems routinely traveled as part of their normal workdays, producing CO2 year after year. Much time, energy, and pollutants may be saved with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT). System integrators can undertake many of their normal fire safety services for every client, across multiple sites, from afar, thanks to secure cloud-based data storage with continuous access.

The example of a chemical facility in Londrina, in southern Brazil, demonstrates the enormity of this effect. Fertilizers, for example, are very flammable and combustible in this hazardous atmosphere. Their fire safety system integrator’s office is 520 kilometers distant. Through Bosch Remote Services, the organization can deliver 100 percent uptime, full-time event monitoring, and quick responses to any faults from afar.

Working Together for Sustainability

Bosch Security and Safety Systems strive to make a positive impact – on the users of their building solutions and the world we all live in. In doing so, they start with their processes and building cooperation with their suppliers and customers. They believe that we can conserve valuable resources, increase long-term energy efficiency, reduce carbon footprints and promote the well-being and satisfaction of people.

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Bosch FAS-420 Aspiration Smoke Detector

MEC Digital — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 03:53:18 +0000

LSN improved

The FAS‑420 Series Aspiration Smoke Detectors are specially designed for direct connection to the Local SecurityNetwork LSN improved version with the extended features. They are active fire detection systems for early fire detection in area and equipment monitoring, as well as for the monitoring of air conditioning units or ducts. They have the latest detection technology. Their resistance to contamination, the temperature compensation of the sensor signals, and initialization in relation to air pressure ensure reliable operation even under extreme environmental conditions.

Functions:

The aspiration unit takes air samples from the monitoring area through a pipe system with defined air sampling openings and passes the samples to the Detector Module.
Depending on the response sensitivity of the used Detector Module, the Aspiration Smoke Detector triggers an alarm when the appropriate smoke density is reached. This alarm is displayed via the alarm LED on the unit and is transmitted to the fire panel.
An airflow sensor checks the connected pipe system for breakage and obstruction.
Intelligent signal processing LOGIC·SENS compares the measured smoke level with known disturbance variables and decides between alarm and deception.
For the display and transmission of alarm and faults various delay times can be selected.
A fault message is reset via the connected fire panel. Via the Local SecurityNetwork LSN the alarm and fault messages on the unit are reset simultaneously with the detector line.

Highlights:

High deceptive alarm immunity with intelligent signal processing LOGIC·SENS
Innovative airflow monitoring including single-hole monitoring detects obstruction and breakage
Initial set-up made easy by automatic initialization
Maintains LSN loop functions in the event of wire interruption or short-circuit thanks to two integrated isolators
SL-versions: Noise reduction to 38 dB(A) by an extremely quiet fan and up to 34 dB(A) with additional sound absorber

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Bosch FLEXIDOME IP 3000i

MEC Digital — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:26:46 +0000

Predictive Analytics for Cost-Effective Outdoor Surveillance Applications

The FLEXIDOME IP 3000i family is extended with two new outdoor cameras

FLEXIDOME IP micro 3000i

Fixed micro dome camera

The FLEXIDOME IP micro 3000i is compact in design and built for high-quality, round the clock performance and easy installation.

FLEXIDOME IP turret 3000i IR

with built-in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The FLEXIDOME IP turret 3000i IR has built-in infrared imaging to enable high-quality images even in complete darkness.

Designed for outdoor applications when light levels vary, both models offer a High Dynamic Range (HDR) of 120dB with up to 5 MP resolutions and are weatherproof (IP66) with vandal-resistant housing (IK10).

Predictive insights enable users to know what is next

Built-in AI, like Essential Video Analytics, uses metadata to add sense and structure to video footage, enabling the FLEXIDOME IP micro 3000i and IP turret 3000i IR cameras to understand what they are seeing and gives customers a smart choice to know what is next.

Supporting sustainable business practices..

All Bosch FLEXIDOME IP 3000i models support business owners with remote connectivity, enabling them to access their system or video footage from anywhere, anytime. The ability to perform remote work is necessary during the current pandemic and allows integrators to commute less, saving time and reducing harmful environmental emmisions.

Built-in Essential Video Analytics

Essential Video Analytics can be used for advanced intrusion detection, such as alerts to loitering or a person or object entering a pre-defined field. Additionally, it can also help to enforce health and safety regulations such as no-parking zones and blocked emergency exits.

… while keeping data secure

Keeping systems current also offers a solid defense against potential data security vulnerabilities. Bosch provides a multi-step approach to data security centered on a built-in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that safely stores all certificates and keys needed for authentication and encryption.

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Bosch CCTV

MEC Digital — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:44:57 +0000

Professional video solutions that suit every need

Rethink video security

Bosch offers a wide range of video security cameras, recording solutions and software to deliver intelligent solutions that deliver smart data that helps to improve safety, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Features

Video Analytics at the Edge

Highest Image Quality

Intelligent bitrate management

Data Security

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Bosch Fire Detection and Alarm Systems

MEC Digital — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:21:33 +0000

Keeping you safe is our first priority

Intelligent detection. Superior protection

Bosch Safety Systems Designer makes planning of fire alarm systems a snap and in the future Safety Systems Designer will be the only software you need to plan and calculate fire alarm systems.

Features

Intelligent Detection

Superior Protection

Video-based Fire Detection

Interfaced Fire Detection and Voice Alarm

Remote Services over IP

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Bosch: Video Analytics and Warehouse Management Integration

MEC Networks Corporation — Fri, 10 May 2019 07:29:09 +0000

Warehouses are perplexing security situations. Several specialists move a huge number of things through walkways and passages, making it hard for Security Directors to distinguish stock burglary and track missing shipments. In an Industry 4.0 example of overcoming adversity, the group at the Bosch Car Post-retail circulation center in Itupeva, Brazil, utilized the Internet of Things (IoT) to make an answer: Their customized integration between video analytics and warehouse management software counteracts burglary, uplifts proficiency and improves shipment following.

The need to make sense of a complex situation

Situated around 70 kilometers from São Paulo, the car dissemination center in Itupeva is a focal center for the whole South Americas locale. The 26,000-square-meter office forms 68,000 shipments of key segments every year, so the sheer dimension of the development of things, beds, and warehouse workforce demonstrate testing to follow from a coordination and security viewpoint. A couple of years prior, the coordination group understood that stock misfortunes from the burglary were on the ascent. Then, client requests about lost things in shipments required protracted research, putting the center’s notoriety in danger. This required a difference in methodology. Researching the issue, it worked out that the security group was overpowered by the sheer measure of cautions. Each episode recorded by the video cameras required tedious manual examination: At whatever point a representative entered a limited path, staff in the security control room got an alarm to play out a cross-check in the warehouse management framework. This was to affirm whether a functioning errand had been relegated to that passageway. If not, security on the warehouse floor would be called to examine. Be that as it may, with a great many cautions and false alerts every day, this demonstrated humanly unimaginable.

Because every check in the warehouse system was conducted manually, it led to a situation where security operators could not verify the large number of security events.

Connecting ‘smart’ video cameras and warehouse management software

To tackle the difficulties, the Bosch specialists worked for more than one year to mechanize the tedious manual checks: The methodology consolidates the Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) innovation incorporated with Bosch cameras with a customized setup of the Bosch Video Management Framework (BVMS), and an interface to the center’s warehouse management framework.

From a specialized point of view, it’s a sharp blend of existing innovation with organized data: The majority of the circulation center’s 200 security cameras, including the superior quality Bosch Flexidome IP arrangement, are fitted with Canny Video Analytics (IVA). This inherent capacity forms picture data continuously and distinguishes suspicious exercises by methods for calculation. In the initial step, the group ‘instructed’ the cameras to perceive questions in the warehouse, for example, forklifts and shipment things. When the security framework had figured out how to recognize these items, it was prepared to interface with the center’s coordination framework. In the subsequent stage, the group made an immediate interface between the warehouse management framework and the Bosch Video Management Framework (BVMS). Making the association includes another dimension of insight to the center’s video observation: The shrewd cameras presently go about as IoT sensors that can distinguish products put away in the warehouse management framework software, which right now inventories 13,497 section numbers. The framework additionally consequently cross-checks security occurrences with planned undertakings in the warehouse framework. On account of this ‘brilliant’ robotization, administrators possibly get alerts when a specialist enters a passageway without an undertaking – and no caution is activated if the laborer goes through ceaselessly. As an immediate outcome, the number of security occasions dropped from a few thousand to around 100 every day, and frequencies of burglary subsided too.

This is a real Industry 4.0 success story. The solution is technically complex and involves a high level of customization. But it’s a nice showcase for what is possible to achieve within these systems when the right resources and creative people get involved.

Keeping track of shipments in real-time

From a task’s point of view, the Industry 4.0 arrangement helps security as well as answers the centers have to supplant the tedious manual following procedure for lost things and shipments. Though the coordination group recently required a few hours to physically find a lost thing, each thing presently gets the following number associated with video accounts recording its developments. This dimension of straightforwardness permits the coordination group to tackle stock issues within minutes rather than hours.

As far back as the framework has been effectively revealed, the group in Itupeva has utilized the new dimension of oversight to open extra advantages: Four strong wall guarding touchy zones in the warehouse could be supplanted by ‘virtual wall’, which means security zones characterized in the video management framework. This opens another dimension of adaptability for changing the plan of walkways and retires in the warehouse – as is much of the time required – altogether without trade-offs on security. In addition, the customized Business 4.0 arrangement definitely diminishes stock expenses by performing ‘virtual stock’ continuously and is required to amortize itself in under a year.

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Video: The Internet of Things presents – #LikeABosch

MEC Networks Corporation — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:49:46 +0000

Why live a normal life when you can live #LikeABosch?

See how the Internet of Things (IoT) can help make life easier for you – with our connectivity solutions for a smarter future. Check out how Bosch can help you, as well as even more connectivity and security.

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