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“Critical infrastructure facilities” are systems and assets that are essential for a society to function. They include utilities for generating, transmitting, and distributing energy of all kinds. This can include facilities for ensuring the water supply (including wastewater and sewage treatment) and for extracting, refining, and transporting petroleum and petroleum products (including oil fields, refineries, pipelines), and chemical plants.

All of these assets and systems have one thing in common: gaps in their security or safety can seriously threaten public health, the environment, the economy, or even national or global security.

In the case of hazardous, extreme, and toxic environments, it is particularly essential to comply with extremely strict security, safety, and communication standards.

Many security and safety risks are associated with critical infrastructure facilities, including:

• Sabotage
• Unauthorised access
• Illegal entry and theft
• Malfunctioning of systems

Because ensuring human safety and preventing environmental disasters have absolute priority, the only responsible choice is to take advantage of the best available state-of-the-art, reliable technologies. For dangerous and poisonous environments, this often includes special products such as explosion protected day/night cameras, infrared illuminators, and long-distance cameras, backed by advanced intrusion detection and access systems. The products offered by Bosch Security Systems are ideal for meeting the security, safety, and communication requirements of critical infrastructure facilities.

Security, Safety, and Effective Communication for Critical Infrastructure Facilities
The many challenges include:

• Possible terrorist attacks and vandalism
• Early detection and handling of fires and explosions
• Detection of intruders
• Management of access privileges
• Dealing with weather conditions and extreme environments

Bosch Products and Solutions
Bosch offers a wide range of products and solutions for effectively managing security, safety, and communications at critical infrastructure facilities of all kinds. They enable you to:

• Protect critical assets and facilities from theft, sabotage, and malicious attacks
• Efficiently monitor all areas and activities, also in harsh environments
• Detect potentially dangerous individuals before they can cause any trouble
• Conduct fast, controlled evacuations
• Prevent unauthorised persons from entering restricted areas
• Integrate all safety, security, and communication solutions in a building management system for centrally monitoring and controlling critical infrastructure facilities
  

Detect Suspicious Activity
The Video Management System from Bosch enables complete management of all video surveillance components. High-resolution CCTV cameras (also for harsh conditions) can continuously monitor people moving through and spending time in different areas.

They can also capture persons approaching or attempting to climb over fences at any time of the day or night. Intelligence Video Analysis in the cameras delivers additional benefits. Thermal PTZ cameras detect motion in all weather conditions, thus also helping to protect critical infrastructure facilities.

Quad Beam photoelectric detectors permit even faster, more reliable detection. They are equipped with an environmental discrimination circuit that ensures reliable operation despite dust, fog, rain, or snow, making them ideal for use under difficult conditions.

Guard against Terrorist Attacks
Terrorism or vandalism in critical facilities can have dangerous consequences. To prevent this from happening, special security measures should be taken to keep potential threats well away from buildings, pipelines, etc.

Bosch cameras with Intelligent Video Analysis can guard against all of these risks by establishing a “virtual perimeter fence” that, if crossed, alerts a security operator. Cameras can then be used to check the situation at any time of the day or night and enable appropriate action. They can be installed in even the harshest of environments.

Defending critical facilities from terrorism focuses on dealing with anonymous bomb threats and concealed explosive devices. The ability to manage these safety and security risks is crucial. Bosch Advanced Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA) enables early detection of suspicious behaviour. Tracking cameras can help verify or disprove alarms, alerting the security operator as appropriate. A forensic search function permits fast retrieval of relevant video sequences.

Keep Intruders Out
Intruders or employees illegally entering sensitive areas pose a threat – they could steal hazardous materials or perform dangerous actions.

Bosch can help prevent this as well – with a complete range of intrusion alarm panels and detectors for applications of all kinds. State-of-the-art RFID technology restricts access to critical areas, buildings, and facilities.

All unauthorized access attempts are monitored and can be watched using nearby surveillance cameras.

If a detector picks up a possible threat, the Bosch Video Management System comes into play with high resolution CCTV cameras and Intelligent Video Analysis to verify the alarm and enable subsequent forensic searches for identifying and detaining intruders. Various types of cameras from the large Bosch portfolio can be installed for verifying alarms, and it’s easy to change or add cameras to meet changing security requirements.

Facilitate Evacuations
Fires (for instance as a result of an explosion) constitute major threats to potentially volatile facilities. To protect lives and property at critical infrastructure facilities, it is vital to quickly detect, locate, verify, and contain fire events.

Many critical facilities pose special challenges, with their extreme, hazardous, and toxic environments.

Bosch security systems automatically notify on-site firefighters or the local fire department, in addition to interfacing with sprinkler, ventilation, and public address systems as well as the Building Integration System (BIS) from Bosch to coordinate the evacuation of people.

Bosch offers explosion-protected products such as cameras and horn loudspeakers that are specially designed and approved for safe use in hazardous atmospheres like those found at oil, gas, and chemical processing sites and petrochemical refineries. They are more reliable under extreme conditions, last longer, and have a considerably reduced risk of failure or declining performance.

Maximise Security from the Start
Bosch Access Control Systems guarantee reliable access management both inside and outside and permit easy integration of third-party equipment. All this can be combined with video surveillance to boost security, which is especially important in critical facilities. REG license plate cameras ensure reliable capture of plate number, even under the most challenging conditions. They are protected by a weatherproof casing and capture high-contrast plate images under all possible ambient lighting conditions, from total darkness to direct glare from sunlight and vehicle headlights.

Make Sure only Authorised Persons Get In
An IP-based access control system from Bosch is ideal for preventing unauthorised individuals from entering restricted areas such as security control rooms or laboratories. It supports a large range of readers as well as biometric solutions to meet strict security requirements. Together with video surveillance, this makes it possible to capture and record all access events. Violations automatically trigger an alarm so immediate action can be taken to deal with the situation.

Control all Systems via one Single Platform
With all of the safety, security, communication, and building automation systems that can be installed in a critical facility, it is a challenge to efficiently manage and coordinate them all.

The Building Integration System (BIS) from Bosch provides a single Web-based cockpit for monitoring all security, safety, and building management systems. This includes alarm management, fast alarm pinpointing via location maps, and follow-up procedures. It also seamlessly integrates fire and intrusion alarms, as well as evacuation, access control, CCTV, and building automation systems. Use of the BIS lets a single operator monitor and control all security systems, in addition to enabling faster responses to emergencies and greater overall effectiveness.

El Chocón Hydroelectric Complex, Argentina
This hydroelectric plant in Argentina’s Comahue region was able to get unexpected events under control with a Bosch solution.

The main objective was to improve visualization of critical parts of the reservoir and dam. To achieve this, a Divar MR control centre and complete remote CCTV management solution with mobile Dome cameras was implemented, including live viewing and control, playback, and remote alarm notification. The new system lets staff monitor the water level, detect intruders, and communicate with the security force, all without leaving the control room.

Las Flores Thermoelectric Plant in Barranquilla, Colombia
The 400 MW Las Flores plant implemented a new security system from Bosch to safeguard the power supply for a new industrial complex.

The new system includes dome IP cameras to monitor perimeters and production processes. An access control system restricts access to critical areas, supported by video verification and an intrusion system. A Videos management system uses Intelligent Video Analysis for localisation and proactive surveillance. A Building Integration System enables video verification of authorized individuals and automatic positioning of mobile cameras, among other things.

Teplarna Kosice a.s. Heating Plant in Kosice, Slovakia
This major heating plant needed to protect the perimeter of its three-kilometre-long fenced complex and monitor all important systems.

Teplarna Kosice a.s. is one of Slovakia’s largest producers of heat (in the form of hot water and steam). To tighten security, it installed a Bosch Video Management System, which is a unique tool for managing digital images, audio, and data from analogue and IP camera systems. The perimeter and entrances are secured by 54 cameras, including three rotating AutoDome VG4 cameras. The plant itself is monitored by 26 video cameras. IVMD 1.0 software analyses images to automatically assess movements to identify possible intruders.

Erie Water Works in Pennsylvania, USA
The Erie Water Works eliminated vandalism and inventory losses by upgrading to an integrated security system from Bosch.

The Erie Water Works supplies drinking water to the city of Erie and surrounding towns. To meet increasing security requirements, it installed various Bosch systems: the Access Engine for access control, the Video Engine for surveillance, and the Security Engine for intrusion. The Bosch Building Integration System provides an integrated view of all three components. At the main distribution centre and at the largest water treatment plant, cameras record video on DiBos DVRs.

Rely on Highly Precise Security
Bosch offers a large portfolio of products that are consistently designed to deliver a high level of security under even the most challenging conditions. They are built to withstand and dependably operate in extreme temperatures, low-light and no-light environments, corrosive and volatile atmospheres, and areas where products could be physically attacked.

For peace of mind in connection with virtually any application, you can take advantage of everything from explosion-proofed cameras and loudspeakers across accurate license plate cameras to highly secure biometric readers.

Everything is from a single supplier and therefore harmonises perfectly. You can assemble an ideally tailored solution to meet even your most exacting requirements.