Sony MK7807V1 Manual Book page 160

Technical References
Technical References: ISR
ISR—Interactive Status Reporting
Television broadcast and production systems become ever more complex and the ability to monitor equipment
ever more important – but at the same time increasingly difficult. Equipment downtime can have a dramatic
effect on revenue, so knowledge of potential equipment failure is of great value. The solution is the Sony ISR
(Interactive Status Reporting) system, which allows a wide range of digital broadcast equipment to be remotely
monitored.
Digital equipment has brought new levels of performance and operational benefits at every stage of the program
making process - acquisition, production, post and play out. These benefits now include detailed equipment
database management, allowing significant improvements to be made in operating efficiency.
ISR provides status reporting, error logging and remote control and remote diagnostics on VTRs, camera
systems, routers, servers, switchers and edit controllers. This wealth of information brings levels of centralized
system management never before possible.
ISR runs on industry-standard PC platforms and can monitor a single unit or up to 1,000 individual items of
equipment, depending on the type of ISR software in use.
The ISR system
• Status monitoring provides continuous displays of
• error and warning status of equipment
• VTR channel condition
• EDH and EDA status of equipment
• system log files status
• Remote diagnostics
• diagnostic checks of remote equipment
• intelligent remote control functions for VTRs
• Database management
• reception and storage of error and warning messages, logged by device serial number
• selective or complete uploading, storage, editing, and downloading of VTR set-up parameters
• management and retrieval of historical data
• logging of VTR channel condition, with time stamp and time code
• management of equipment in discrete groups
• export of data to Microsoft Excel™
• Software options
• BZI-500/03, supports connection of up to eight devices*
• BZI-500/03 plus BZI-501/03 supports connection of up to 64 devices**
• BZI-502 supports connection of up to 1,000 devices and acts as a system supervisor***
• more than one supervisory node can exist on the same system
* May require an additional RS-232C expansion card
** Will require network components and software
*** Requires NT 3.51 server if more than three 500/501 nodes exist on the same system
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