Pebble Beach incorporates Lighthouse remote monitoring and management into its Marine automation solution

The new web-based dashboard offers control, monitoring, media management and configuration tools.

Pebble Beach has announced Lighthouse, a web-based dashboard that offers remote management and monitoring for the Marina automation environment.

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 on configurable web-based dashboards.

Modern issuance 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 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 access and monitoring. Through user-based permissions and the latest in TLS encryption, it ensures that your most important information is kept protected within the web environment.

For users with control privileges, accessing and controlling a channel from anywhere with Lighthouse ensures unattended, secure, and worry-free operations for senior staff.

Additionally, 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.

Benefits

Provides operational efficiency to service providers and multi-channel facilities by offering consolidated views of multiple Marina systems that may be geographically separated, have mixed frame rates or run different software versions

Additionally, it adds value for service provider customers by giving them optional visibility and control of their own channels and enabling secure operational and engineering interaction with Marina from remote access points.

This new proposition 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 series of interfaces that provide configuration and deployment functionality for Orca virtual channels. Lighthouse users can design, edit, launch and uninstall virtual IP channels on the fly.

Finally, note that 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.