Bosch Data Collection Service
Developer: Bosch Security Systems
Bosch Data Collection Service is a lightweight, background application designed to gather operational, diagnostic, and event data from Bosch security products and related software. It centralizes telemetry from devices such as cameras, encoders, recorders, and video management components to support monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting across single- and multi-site deployments.
Key capabilities:
- Centralized telemetry: Collects device health, configuration, firmware versions, storage usage, and status information.
- Event and log aggregation: Consolidates logs and alarms to speed up diagnostics and root-cause analysis.
- Secure transport: Uses encrypted communication and authentication; supports proxy environments and restricted networks.
- Flexible scheduling: Configurable collection intervals, bandwidth throttling, and offline buffering for intermittent links.
- Privacy and governance: Granular control over what is collected, retention settings, and optional data minimization.
- Integration-friendly: Exports data in common formats and can be used alongside Bosch Video Management System (BVMS) and other Bosch enterprise video components.
- Low overhead: Runs as a Windows service with a small footprint and no user interaction required.
Benefits:
- Improves visibility into system health and performance.
- Reduces time to diagnose issues and prepare support information.
- Enables proactive maintenance and more reliable operations.
- Streamlines reporting and compliance documentation.
Typical use cases include fleet monitoring of distributed cameras and recorders, centralized incident investigation, and preparing diagnostic bundles for support teams. The service is commonly deployed together with Bosch video solutions but can be configured for a variety of Bosch Security Systems environments.
Bosch Data Collection Service is developed by Bosch Security Systems. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.0 and 3.0.
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