Pebble Beach Systems announced Lighthouse, a web-based panel that provides remote management and monitoring for Marina's automation environment.
Unveiled at the recent NAB show in Las Vegas, Lighthouse extends Marina's functionality to business users, operational staff and engineers, both inside and outside the broadcast facility. It offers control, monitoring, media management and system configuration tools through a series of widgets in configurable web-based dashboards.
Modern broadcast workflows require agile and responsive interaction methods at any time of the day or night. Lighthouse extends staff reach with standard browser interfaces, so status and corrective actions are just a few seconds away, even outside the control room.
Designed for PCs, tablets and mobile devices, and based on the latest JavaScript and HTML5 technology, Lighthouse incorporates its own node.js web server, and offers load balancing and high availability for reliable monitoring and access. Through user-based permissions and the latest in TLS encryption, it ensures that the most important information is kept protected within the web environment.
"Lighthouse offers a powerful insight into the Marina automation system for those users who may be far from the standard client interface or who don't typically need that level of access," says Eric Openshaw, CEO of Pebble North America. "For users with control privileges, accessing and controlling a channel from anywhere with Lighthouse ensures unsupervised, safe and worry-free operations for senior staff."
Lighthouse can span multiple Marina systems, which may be running different software versions and operating at different frame rates. Users can configure their own layouts according to their function, or range of functions, and switch between multiple panels with a click of the mouse.
Main benefits:
- It provides operational efficiency to service providers and multi-channel facilities, offering consolidated views of multiple Marine systems that can:
or be geographically separated
or have mixed frame rates
or run different versions of software
- Adds value for service provider customers, giving them visibility and optional control of their own channels
- Enables secure operational and engineering interaction with Marina from remote access points
- It delivers mission-critical information beyond secure LAN automation, enabling rapid user response in an office environment.
- As Pebble's product portfolio expands into the virtual world, Lighthouse offers a number of interfaces that deliver configuration and deployment capabilities for Orca's virtual channels. Lighthouse users can design, edit, launch, and uninstall virtual IP channels on the fly.
Implementation:
Lighthouse is implemented as a node.js web server on a Linux operating system. Pebble can provide the host hardware, however, many users prefer to use COTS server hardware, or deploy Lighthouse as part of a virtualized infrastructure.
