BeamON is a cloud-based product intelligence platform for the broadcast industry with a single interface to manage equipment across the whole organization. It can monitor the lifecycle of equipment and take care of ordering the replacement unit to avoid failure during a shoot causing expensive downtime. The US-based company BEAM Dynamics claims to have a solution to the problem of downtime on set caused by faulty equipment. According to the company, the downtime is estimated to cost the broadcast industry around $6 Billion per year. The solution is a product intelligence platform called BeamON. Let’s take a short look at what it can do. BeamON Product Intelligence Platform BeamON is a cloud-based product intelligence platform that offers a single interface to manage production technology assets across an entire organization. According to BEAM Dynamics, the platform should bridge the communication barrier between broadcasters and manufacturers to help productions stay on air, time, and budget. The company actually received the NAB 2021 PILOT innovation award for the software. BeamON Interface. Source: BEAM Dynamics The BeamON platform allows broadcasters to see a comprehensive overview of the technology used across studios, control rooms, ENG, and IT infrastructure. Currently, this agenda is mostly done in various spreadsheets (Excel or similar) and is therefore not very intuitive, plus every change needs to be entered manually. BeamON should help engineering teams manage thousands of pieces of production equipment in a single user interface in terms of product logistics, software/firmware updates, or maintenance. BeamON Interface. Source: BEAM Dynamics...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 19 October, 2021