The award for 'Milestone Supported Device Number 5,000' was announced and handed over to Brad Eck, Bosch Integration Manager North America, and Brian Wiser, President of Bosch Sales North America, at the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS) – the annual Americas partner conference for the leading VMS provider. The event was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, with 500 security professionals participating.

Building on Bosch's Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA), video-based fire detection can complement state-of-the-art fire detection technologies and enable early detection of smoke and flames with very low false alarm rates – especially in challenging environments where conventional detectors cannot offer satisfactory reaction times. Main applications include buildings with high ceilings or dusty and humid areas. Aviotec has also been desigend to secure environments where no other reliable fire detection solutions exist, for example, saw mills or paper factories, hangars or extremely large monitoring areas.