Jul 13, 2006

Volicon Observer Key Component of New Media Monitoring System for Governor of Puerto Rico’s Office

“The Volicon Observer has helped bring about a sea of change in terms of how news content is managed at Governor Vilá’s office. Combined with the radio and print elements of the overall system, it provides an efficient, comprehensive solution for the office’s news monitoring needs.”

The office of Puerto Rico’s governor, Hon. Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, is using Volicon’s Observer desktop media monitoring system to keep up on news about the administration and various government agencies. The Volicon Observer, which was installed by systems integrator RGB Broadcast Services as part of a major overhaul of the office’s monitoring operations, allows Governor Vilá and his advisors on-demand access to live and archived video content from anywhere in the world.

“The Volicon Observer has helped bring about a sea of change in terms of how news content is managed at Governor Vilá’s office,” said Abner Serrano, consulting engineer, RGB Broadcast Services. “Combined with the radio and print elements of the overall system, it provides an efficient, comprehensive solution for the office’s news monitoring needs.”

Governor Vilá’s Central Communications Office (CCO) had been recording and editing daily broadcasts of several local television and AM radio channels onto VHS and audio tape, respectively. Additionally, staff members were responsible for assembling print clippings from approximately five newspapers a day. As a result of this system, the governor and his advisors could only receive briefings late each night — and in the form of numerous VHS and audiotapes and one large book of print clippings. Older stories were only searchable through a manual archive.

The new system RGB Broadcast installed is divided into video, radio, and print components. Replay Radio software records and stores radio content in MP3 files while Liberty IMS — which forms the backbone of the system — converts print documents into searchable electronic data. The Volicon Observer captures all the video elements of the system, converting them into extracted AVI files that it automatically transfers to Network Attached Storage (NAS) for 90 days.

CCO staffers have the ability to search for video directly from their desktops. Searches can be narrowed down to specific news channels, periods of time, and even government agencies. Video reports can be generated at any time for viewing anywhere in the world from a Webbased interface. For example, staffers at the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration office in Washington, D.C. — the official representative of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the United States — can easily access video reports from their desktops.

The Observer uses Volicon’s unique video processing technology to allow a large number of users simultaneous access to multiple channels of live and archived content from their desktop using a Microsoft Internet Explorer®-compatible interface. Users can log their own and competitors’ broadcasts, as well as retrieve and analyze video clips with metadata, locally or remotely.

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Volicon Observer wins TV Technology STAR Award @ IBC 2006

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