TMCSTransmitters Monitoring & Control System

Technomedia Solutions Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, India

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• Introduction • SNMP Devices• Features & Benefits of TMCS• Architecture• Screenshots of TMCS in action• TMCS on Mobile• System Requirements

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Introduction

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TMCS –Transmitter Monitoring & Control

System

The TMCS is developed by Technomedia is a real time network monitoring system that monitors the health of Transmitters (Txs), in a network.

A service provider having multiple broadcast transmitters in a network need to be alerted of Tx performance in real time and take quick responsive action that prevents service breakage.

TMCS provides a powerful monitoring of the whole transmitter network with a geographical and detailed block diagram of all the Tx on a map.  

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TMCS provides instant snapshot of the Broadcast transmitter’s critical parameters like VSWR, Transmitter Forward Power, Reflected Power, PA Status, Temperature etc.

It is monitored using an Ethernet interface, the tool provides instant access to a SNMP device interfaced with the transmission system, on the network either over the internet or intranet, directly on the system browser, with rich and valuable features.

TMCS also monitors the strength of the Transmitter through the serial port (RS232) from Tx.

Introduction

SNMP Devices

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◦ Using inexpensive SNMP devices like WVRC-8 of Broadcast Tools USA or IP2Choice of Audemat France, the TMCS pulls the key transmitter parameters that are wired to the SNMP devices.

By wiring this device appropriately one can:

1. Measure power output, temperature, voltage, current and other parameters.

2. Monitor studio equipment, generators and server room. 3. Monitor Environmental parameters.4. Silence sensing .

Modern transmitters provides IP interfaces that can provide similar transmitter parameters. The TMCS can also support these interfaces from the transmitters and pull the key transmitter parameters.

TMCS Configured with SNMP device.

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Key Parameters that are being monitored in private FM networks in India :

VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) Forward Transmitter Power Reflected Power TX Inlet Temperature PA MOD Temperature Room Temperature PA Fault Status Audio Alarm Standby Transmitter Fwd. Power

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Parameters that can be controlled from SNMP Device

Transmitter ON Transmitter OFF Transmitter Power Raise Transmitter Power Lower Stand By Transmitter ON Stand By Transmitter OFF Coaxial Switch Position B PA Module Select

TMCS Configured with SNMP device.

TMCS Configured with SNMP device.

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Other Parameters those can be monitored are :

UPS monitor / control. Diesel Generator monitor / control. Air-conditioner monitor / control.

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• DGStatus of the DGFuel levelRPMCustomized reports based on the

dates can be generatedON / OFF control is also possible

Diesel Generator parameters in TMCS

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• UPSStatus of the UPSBattery level checkON / OFF control is also

possible

UPS parameters in TMCS

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Air Conditioner

Status of A/CTemperature lower / higherRoom TemperatureON / OFF control is also

possible

Air Conditioner parameters in TMCS

Transmitters (All parameters)

Audio Codec (Status)

ON-AIR - Audio Monitoring

DG status (All reqd. parameters)

Air conditioner status

UPS status

TMCS - One stop Solution

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TMCS Architecture

Internet / Intranet

IP interface Built-in Transmitter

TMCS Server

Serial to Ethernet Convertor

SNMP Device

SNMP Device

SNMP Device

REMOTE MONITORING SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

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Features

Provides instant snapshot of all monitored Tx on the network map

Easy way of understanding the exact failure of component in and on a block diagram

Easy to configure all Tx parameters from a single web based interface for different thresholds of each snmp device and channel.

Configurable Alerts to the users through email.

Hourly logging of events in the database for analysis. Report Generation for all monitored devices from the logged in data

of the database for each site depending on the values configured.

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Features… contd

Very powerful filters to generate the reports, based on Station, Location, Tx Type, State wise and Zonal wise Parameters.

The reports can be viewed as a table and exported into an Excel Spreadsheet.

Engineers can log on to any issue faced by them at CTI centers and can be viewed by all CTI engineers to avoid the recurrence of same problem in other centers. Ability to export the issues to excel for analysis.

With powerful filter options, user can select three desired parameters and view them in five types of charts, which are very useful to the

management.

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Features… contd

For a very quick alert to the client, the status view of all stations shown in the first page itself.

Ability to select the parameters in the summary and report view column as per user’s desire.

Capability of showing any 3 parameters in the graph. This would highly helpful to the user to do the analysis.

Ability to provide the status of STXLP Transmitters as well. Capability to control the STXLP Transmitter like

ON / OFF the Transmitter Increase / Decrease the FWD power of the Transmitter

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TMCS - ADMIN Login screen

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TMCS - Normal status

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TMCS - State map view

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TMCS - High status

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TMCS - Critical status

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TMCS - Tx schematic Diagram

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TMCS - Transmitter block diagram

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TMCS - Codec status

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STATUS - STXLP 1 KW TRANSMITTER

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STATUS - STXLP 5 KW TRANSMITTER

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STXLP 5 KW CONTROL

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STXLP 5 KW CONTROL HISTORY

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TMCS - Issue report

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TMCS - Issue report -> view

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TMCS - Audio Monitoring

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TMCS on Mobile

TMCS is a mobile application that provides drilled down details of transmitter health on the go.

Open the browser on your mobile, type the URL & set username

and password to start instantly monitoring your transmitters on the TMCS network in real time.

This is a classified view for a quick snapshot of all the transmitters’ health on your network. These classified views provide a drill down to the last parameter to find the root cause, for the transmitter that is either in the “HIGH”, “CRITICAL” or “NORMAL” status.

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TMCS on Mobile

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TMCS on Mobile

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System Requirements

Hardware Requirements WVRC–8 unit/IP2Choice (SNMP Device for each transmitter) Windows PC with min. of P4 processor 1GB RAM 120 GB HDD

Software pre-requisites Apache Server with PHP/MySQL DB. Java runtime environment (JRE 1.6)

High speed internet connection Minimum of 256 Kbps DSL line (could be a shared one)

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