Scheduler

The Genesis scheduling module is built around an easy to use drag and drop interface. Features include:

• Ability to schedule special instructions (e.g. RS232 commands, reboot, restart etc)
  
• Time, date conditional schedules
  
• Ability to auto link content to schedule
  
• Support for play-list within play-play-list
  
• Schedule by group
  
• Preview schedule (or specific item)
  
• Export and save any play-list
  
• Contextual menu (right click for properties etc)

Network Manager

The purpose of the network manager is to manage to independently manage client machines, and global parameters independently of schedules and play-lists.

• Setup of hierarchal structure for grouping
  
• Attached device information (which projector, which SR box)
  
• Remote file (content) admin
  
• Remote commands
  
• Network Status (e.g. GPRS up, client up)
  
• Total file space per client
  
• Configuration of report back info
  
• Ability to create 'network'

Content Manager

The Content Manager will integrate into JobDB allowing accurate tracking of content from production.

• Content import and scanning
  
• Content preview
  
• Accurate linking of external and internal content names

Reporting

One of the core modules of Genesis 2 is the reporting module, this incorporate the following reports:

• Proof of Screening (Compliance)
• Proof of Delivery
  Faults analysis
• Customised report builder
  Export report

Genesis has been designed to accept a number of standard and non-standard external data sources; these data sources can be used as content for ticker tapes or dynamic widgets (see Generator Widgets).

Some examples of these data types are:

• RSS* feeds
• XML
• Email - this feature allows mails to be parsed and the body or titles can be inserted into a template or ticker tape.
• SQL databases
• Airport flight information
• Live web sites
  

Genesis is the controlling server for all Móbila Generator and Móbila Genie clients on a network, this server based application takes care of all the scheduling, distribution and reporting tasks needed by a large scale media network.

Genesis has been developed with scalability in mind, it is able to schedule and control anything from one individual site up to thousands. A key feature of Genesis is the ability to host multiple client sessions, allowing for extensive schedule changes to be made to a large network quickly and efficiently.

Network Based

The Genesis 2 interface is JAVA based, this allows for the interface to work cross-platform, and also host multiple client sessions simultaneously, this means that large scheduling tasks can be split between across many people

Multicast (Broadcaster)

The main distribution engine in Genesis 2 utilizes multicast network technology. This allows the simultaneous distribution of material to multiple sites, this results in extremely high efficiency and time savings. Some of the features are:

• Works in synchronous and asynchronous mode
  
• Integrated Proof of Delivery
  
• User definable error correction
  
• Priority based 'smart' queuing system
  
• Auto resubmit based on predefined POD parameters
  
• Supports multiplexing of data 'on the fly'
  
• Supports split packages (including package reassembly)
  
• Queue manager tracks ETD, ETA, ETE
  
• Receivers support multiple receive capability