Broadcast System Monitoring and Troubleshooting Using a Graphical User Interface

The technology of Broadcast Test and Measurement equipment has evolved to include automated signal monitoring and verification. The desire to automate signal monitoring is a result of a need by many engineering departments to increase efficiencies of engineering resources in modern broadcast facilities. In many instances, broadcast operators are charged with monitoring the quality of an increasing amount of program content both entering (ingest) and exiting (broadcast) their system. This paper will discuss current technology applied to monitoring information describing the quality of program content using graphical user interfaces. In the broadcast world, integration of a local area network as another physical layer for control and monitoring of the existing audio and video signal paths, has become vital and routine. Development of new tools, based upon utilization of network technology, to monitor the health and quality of a centralized broadcast system is in its infancy.

Published

2004-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001017

ISBN

978-1-60423-807-5