Pharos Announces Exception Broadcast Alarm System
Pharos Exception provides flexible notification of alarm monitoring signals from third-party equipment
A powerful new addition to Pharos range of control software, Pharos Exception provides flexible notification of alarm monitoring signals from third-party equipment. Incoming signals can be grouped, time-masked and forwarded to users either at their workstation of via the web based Pharos Information centre.
Designed for use in television production studios, MCR environments, post-production facilities or playout centres, Pharos Exception allows alarms in GPI, SNMP and XML format to be managed across a network of operators and administrators. Alarms can be masked individually, in groups or collectively, with the freedom to add metadata specific to individual users.
Steve Robinson, Pharos Communications' Product Manager for Control, explains:
"The inherent reliability of digital equipment enables small numbers of staff to supervise high levels of channel traffic. This makes automated alarm monitoring much more important than it used to be. Exception employs the same real-time Java technology as Pilot Ria, alerting staff to an alarm as soon as it occurs. Extensive grouping capabilities are achieved by using free text to integrate alarm parameters such as hardware location, IP address, channel and driver type. Raw and grouped alarms can be forwarded to as many or as few operators as need that information. All alarms are directly accessible by default from the Information Centre or from the user interface where master alarms can be integrated into existing workflows."
Published on 23 Jan 2006