Introducing Actus X – Game-Changing Broadcast Monitoring Technology with Added AI-Based Applications

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Making an Immediate Impact for Broadcasters

The brand-new Actus X  represents a major leap forward in broadcast quality-monitoring and compliance technology. Actus has poured extensive R&D into its Intelligent Monitoring Platform to enhance efficiency and reliability, while introducing artificial intelligence not available from any other technical monitoring system.

Actus X is a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool that makes the lives of broadcast engineers easier, with capabilities for quality assurance, compliance logging, and multiviewer, and now also adds exciting new capabilities for automated AI analysis of audio and video media to derive media insights to help broadcasters gain a competitive edge.

Key new features and enhancements to the core platform, include:

Next-Generation QA Compliance Logging – Actus X enhancements include support for ATSC 3.0 including A3SA encryption with better access and control over alerts and threshold settings. Alerts can be accessed by the browser-based GUI and categorized into Problems, Errors, Quality of Experience (QoE), or Quality of Service (QoS) issues, with dynamically adjusting notification workflows for more precise control and improved Quality Assurance.

Deploying Actus probe-points throughout complex baseband and IP workflows, including returns from newer transmission standards such as ATSC 3.0, 2110, and a variety of streaming formats, enable engineers to more quickly discover the origin of issues to resolve them faster.

Advanced Multiviewer Capabilities – The Actus X multiviewer named Actus MV, received major upgrades over previous versions, including reduced latency, expanded data-overlay options like SCTE trigger details, Nielsen SID data, and TS analysis, and smoother operation of its penalty-box reporting and round-robin channel-cycling.

The primary differentiator and advantage for Actus MV over traditional multiviewers is how it is intentionally engineered to support unlimited mosaic-layouts and unlimited multiviewer-heads for unlimited simultaneous local and remote users, with straightforward interactivity for an easier and better user-experience.

Brand new automated AI-analysis feature:

AI-Powered Media Insight – Actus X leverages AI on this ‘technical monitoring system’ to introduce affordable ‘content monitoring’ capabilities that benefit those beyond engineering.

Deploying these capabilities on the same system originally deployed for aircheck and compliance delivers a tremendous added value to stations and broadcasters that are so often asked to do more with less.

As a few examples, News teams can now quickly derive valuable insights from national and competitor programming to help identify, summarize, and highlight breaking news and developing stories. Sales teams can monitor competitors 24×7 to be notified when new Advertisers enter their market. And, government-users can be alerted to potential security threats and political agendas.

Dynamic Duo – Deploying Actus MV along with Actus QA Compliance capabilities creates a powerful combination that distributes QoE/QoS alert notifications through multiviewer-embedded alarms and penalty-box entries, as well as automated email, App, SNMP, and SMS messages.

The Total Package now with AI – Never has a system offered so much for so little, Actus raises the bar and sets a new standard for intelligent broadcast monitoring.