Thyssen-Bornemisza migrates its analogue security system to IP videvigilance

The new solution replaces existing equipment with IP cameras with panoramic vision in the different showrooms, in addition to including image recording and storage and video analysis. This infrastructure is managed by Bosch Video Management System software (BVMS).

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has some of the best works of art in the world and Bosch has helped ensure that these works of art remain unchanged, helping you migrate from an analogue system to an IP video surveillance solution.

With this change, has provided an integrated security system that replaces the old and disparate facilities, allowing you to receive and monitor all alarms centrally. The new solution replaces existing equipment with new IP cameras with panoramic vision in the different showrooms, in addition to including image recording and storage and video analysis. The complete security installation is managed by Bosch Video Management System software (BVMS).

To keep an eye on every piece of art and ensure there's no blind spot, Bosch's IP panoramic cameras were chosen by the museum to protect the temporary exhibition hall. These fisheye lens equipment provides a full 360o vision. Dewarping software transforms the circular image into distortion-free rectangular images that can be viewed at a resolution of 12 megapixels with high definition.

Installed IP panoramic cameras come standard with Intelligent Video Analytics, continuously analyzing all the video images. If a predefined scenario is detected, an alarm is triggered.
Intelligent Video Analytics continues to monitor the entire circle of images so that the user continues to receive alarms even if security personnel decide to zoom to a particular region.

The 'Museum Mode'’ allows you to predefine a perimeter around a work of art and create a virtual and invisible protective barrier. If an individual breaches this perimeter, in an attempt to touch or steal a work of art, an alarm is triggered and immediately received both at the control centre and on the mobile devices of security personnel, allowing them to react and act quickly.

This virtual barrier is a much cheaper alternative to conventional infrared barriers.
In addition, for the low-light staged exhibitions in the Monero Hall, like the recent exhibition 'Bvlgary and Rome', Thyssen Museum- Bornemisza selected the IP series cameras 6000 with the latest starlight technology.

Bosch's starlight IP cameras are designed for low-light conditions and provide high-quality color images in near-complete dark situations. These cameras also ensure that low-light areas can be adequately monitored and that museum management does not have to compromise the exhibition's artistic concept and environment for safety reasons.

"Since the video system is equipped with a redundant iSCSI recording solution, the system remains operational even if any of the recorders temporarily lose the connection. With this new configuration, the main benefit is that we have a backup system for our recordings that provides a reliable and efficient security system “, explains Miguel Angel Molina, Director of Museum Security.

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