BVMS - Quick Selection Guide
BVMS - Quick Selection Guide
BVMS is a unique IP video security solution that provides seamless management of digital video, audio and
data across any IP network.
The different editions of BVMS – Viewer, Lite, Plus, Professional and Enterprise – offer you full scalability, so
you can expand your video surveillance system according to your needs and manage up to 200,000 cameras.
Bosch Software Assurance: Our comprehensive software maintenance and support service is available in two options. GO is
our basic software maintenance and support offering that is automatically included for all software products, without additional costs.
PRO is our premium software maintenance and support service offering that includes our Bosch Software Assurance GO, plus several
additional features. The options also apply to BVMS on the DIVAR IP systems.
Quick Selection Guide
Video Management Systems
System features
Included cameras (max cameras) 16 (500) 8 (42) 8 (42) 8 (256) 8 (256) 8 (2.000)
Maximum number of workstations 1 (1) 2 (5) 2 (5) 5 (20) 5 (20) 5 (100)
Maximum number of clients 1 5 5 20 20 100
Maximum number of BVMS subsystems – – – 0 (20) 0 (20) 0 (100)
Maximum number of Bosch VRM servers 32 1
2 2 2 2 125
Maximum storage capacity n.a. 2 x 4 PB 3 x 48 TB 5 x 192 TB 2 x 4 PB 125 x 4 PB
Forensic search ● ● ● ● ● ●
DVR support 5 (5) 1 ( 10) 1 ( 10) 1 ( 10) 1 (10) 1 (50)
Events and alarms – ● ● ● ● ●
Streamlining – ● ● ● ● ●
GPU decoding ● ● ● ● ● ●
Remote access – ● ● ● ● ●
Dynamic transcoding ● ● 2
● ● ● 2
● 2
Web client – ● ● ● ● ●
Keyboard support 1 (1) 2 (5) 2 (5) 2 (10) 5 (10) 5 (100)
Offline map functionality – ● ● ● ● ●
Online map functionality – ● ● ● ● ●
Map-based tracking assistant – ● ● ● ● ●
Audio support ● ● ● ● ● ●
Decoder support – ● ● ● ● ●
BVMS Config Wizard – ● ● ● ● ●
Live & Playback sites 16 – – 1 (20) 1 (20) 1 (9999)
Supported camera devices
Bosch panoramic cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Bosch UHD cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Bosch HD cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Bosch SD/ VGA cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Third party ONVIF Profile S cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Bosch H.265 cameras ● ● ● ● ● ●
Redundancy
Automatic Network Replenishment (ANR) – ● ● ● ● ●
VMware® vSphere/ Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization support – ● – – ● ●
VMware® vSphere High Availability support – ● – – ● ●
Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster and Hyper-V Replica support – ● – – ● ●
Failover VRM – 8 (42) 8 (42) 8 (256) 8 (256) 8 (2000)
Dual Recording – 8 (42) 8 (42) 8 (256) 8 (256) 8 (2000)
Alarm management
Logbook – ● ● ● ● ●
Events and alarms – ● ● ● ● ●
Email notification – ● ● ● ● ●
Alarm-based recording n.a. ● ● ● ● ●
Motion recording n.a. ● ● ● ● ●
Video Analytics events – ● ● ● ● ●
SNMP support – ● ● ● ● ●
Workflow with instructions on alarm – ● ● ● ● ●
Integration
Maximum number of Bosch B/G Series intrusion panels – 1 (5) 1 (5) 1 (10) 1 (10) 1 (40)
Access Management System – 5 (5) 5 (5) 5 (5) 5 (5) 5 (5)
I/O module support – ● ● ● ● ●
Active directory ● ● ● ● ● ●
ATM-POS support – ● ● ● ● ●
Additional data – ● ● ● ● ●
License plate recognition – 0 (5) 0 (5) 0 (10) 0 (10) 0 (50)
Software Development Kit (SDK) – ● ● ● ● ●
Licensing
BVMS 10.1 and lower MBV-BLIT-DIP (32) MBV-BPLU-DIP (32)
MBV-1CHAN-DIP MBV-1CHAN-DIP
MBV-1DUR-DIP MBV-1DUR-DIP
MBV-1FOV-DIP MBV-1FOV-DIP
MBV-XWST-DIP MBV-XWST-DIP
MBV-XDVR-DIP MBV-XDVR-DIP
MBV-XKBD-DIP MBV-XKBD-DIP
MBV-XINT-DIP MBV-XMVS-DIP
MBV-XPI-DIP MBV-XINT-DIP
MBV-XLPR-DIP MBV-XPI-DIP
MBV-XSITE-DIP
MBV-XLPR-DIP
MBV-XSUB-DIP
MBV-XCHANLIT MBV-XCHANPLU
MBV-XWSTLIT MBV-XWSTPLU
MBV-XDVRLIT MBV-XDVRPLU
MBV-XKBDLIT MBV-XKBDPLU
MBV-XFOVLIT MBV-XMVSPLU
MBV-XDURLIT MBV-XFOVPLU
MBV-XINTLIT MBV-XDURPLU
MBV-XPILIT MBV-XSITEPLU
MBV-XLPRLIT MBV-XINTPLU
MBV-XPIPLU
MBV-XLPRPLU
MBV-XSUBPLU
Software Assurance
MBV-BLIT8-DIP • Assurance Go automatically included • Assurance Go automatically included
• Upgrade to Pro not possible • Upgrade to Pro not possible
Activation before April 2021 3 years Assurance Pro included 3 years Assurance Pro included
(starting from date of activation) (starting from date of activation)
Activation after April 2021 Assurance Go included, Pro needs to be Assurance Go included, Pro needs to be
purchased (MBV-MLIT-DIP and correspon- purchased (MBV-MPLU-DIP and corres-
ding extension licenses) ponding extension licenses)