With the release of Firmware 4.1, Bosch Security Systems’ range of IP Video products is now fully compliant with the new Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) specification. You now can make your product ONVIF compliant by simply installing a free firmware upgrade. This full compliance provides interoperability with other vendors’ ONVIF-compliant products and makes installation easier. 
 
One firmware covers all Bosch IP video products: the new Firmware 4.1 is available for Dinion IP, FlexiDome IP, Extreme Series IP, and AutoDome IP cameras, as well as the NBC-200 Series IP cameras, the VideoJet X series of encoders, and VIP X1600 multi-channel encoders and decoders.   
 
Bosch is one of the founding members of the ONVIF forum, which was set up to establish a global interface standard for network video products. Open to all companies and organizations, the forum’s aim has been to standardize communication in order to ensure interoperability between network video products from different vendors. Finalized last summer, the standard will enable all IP products with an ONVIF interface, regardless of vendor, to fully communicate with each other over an IP network. For installers and system integrators, the new standard will mean greatly simplified installation and greater freedom in specifying a system, and for end users it will mean more flexibility and far greater freedom of choice.
 
Firmware 4.1 also provides new features that contribute to ease of installation, including Universal Plug & Play functionality and Bilinx support for Dinion cameras. With the latter feature, analog camera menus are now fully accessible and settings can be changed via the IP video encoder’s Web browser.
  
Customers with installed Bosch IP Video products are able to download Firmware 4.1 from the Bosch Web site free of charge. Just go to the product page and click the Software tab.