You only get a small number of free channels and simultaneous client licenses with BVMS Pro (enterprise). With Bosch, you have to basically license everything. You only need to license the sever (each server) when a new software version comes out. With Avigilon, you only buy camera licenses at the initial sale. You will most likely lose some functionality a 3rd party camera may have when you use BVMS or ACC.Īs of today, Avigilon's licensing beats the pants off of Bosch.

I haven't had an opportunity to connect 3rd party cameras to Avigilon, so I cannot give an opinion on them except for what the data sheet says. I've had no problems bringing Axis cameras into BVMS. All in all, they are very comparable.īoth Bosch and Avigilon support 3rd party cameras as long as they are ONVIF Profile S compliant. Bosch takes a little more time as their documentation absolutely sucks. I've found that Avigilon's ACC software is very installer user friendly in regards to IVA. In both cases you have to use the vendors software to get the most out of the IVA in the camera. You can get the same result with Avigilon, just with more hoops to jump through.īoth Bosch and Avigilon have excellent analytics. With BVMS, all your devices are under one easy device tree and you set up what the user 'sees' very easily. I dislike the numerous 'sites' you have to set up with Avigilon (and most other vendors) because the IP devices are allocated to specific servers. In my opinion, BVMS is the better option for viewing live video. It's pretty easy to set up and use, but so is BVMS. I'm just getting used to the ACC software of Avigilon. Especially when you utilize the appropriate filters. VRM will also allocate span blocks to other storage arrays automatically if a storage array goes offline for whatever reason.Īvigilon is much faster when it comes to searching for incidents. Avigilon, like a majority of other vendors require you to allocate your cameras to specific storage arrays. You can also create separate pools if you need to. VRM records video data across all the iSCSI storage as if they are were a single pot, so to say. The Video Recording Manager (VRM) acts as a video data traffic cop. My opinion is the Bosch Video Management System (BVMS) is a far better enterprise solution over Avigilon. The company I work for primarily uses Bosch as the video surveillance and recording solution for the correction industry.

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