Pharos Pilot is a control platform to improve operations in Studios, Master Control Rooms and Post Production Facilities. Pilot is also the integrated control layer for Pharos Playtime automation and Mediator Content management.

Pharos has pioneered unified desktop control for over 10 years and is the leading independent developer of third party control. During those 10 years, Pilot has helped our customers to solve many challenges such as High Definition and flexible shared studio operations. Pilot provides operational clarity when using real systems with hundreds of devices, significantly reducing the overhead of managing disparate third party devices and control systems from multiple manufacturers.

Users can build and customise the configuration of control panels as operations change, using Pilot's built-in configuration tool set. A single, clear and intuitive display interface, which is accessible from any workstation, enables real-time control of operations and gives detailed status and alarm information from multiple devices.

Real-time system health, redundancy status and detailed configuration options enable engineering staff to quickly diagnose and fix problems quickly and remotely from any connected network. Like all Pharos solutions, Pilot provides real time support and maintenance using the Pharos Information Centre.

In addition to the benefits gained from a true enterprise control platform, Pilot offers many plug-in modules to increase productivity in common operational scenarios.

Benefits

• Any device can be controlled by any user
• Flexible Pilot panel design tool
• Shared control of studio facilities
• SD and HD side by side
• Aspect ratio converters
• UMD & source / destination alias management
• Multi-viewer and monitor stack control
• Tie-line management between multiple routers from different manufactures
• Unified device chain management
• Easy device bypass & virtual devices
• Device monitoring & alarming, including SNMP and GPI integration
• Task scheduling & 3rd party application management
• Pharos Information Centre

For the list of approved third party devices please see the Pharos Device Driver Library.