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Visionic
Developer(s)	The Intorel Company
Stable release	5.0 / September 6, 2011
Preview release	4.98 / September 8, 2010
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Platform	.NET
Type	Monitoring Control Network management
License	Commercial
Website	www.intorel.com

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Intorel SARL was founded in 2001 as Limited Liability Company. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Intorel conducts business worldwide. Intorel’s solutions have been used by hundreds of ground stations, across 6 continents.

The company is a developer of advanced monitoring and control solutions for broadcast enterprises and satellite communications. Since 2001, Intorel has implemented a variety of customized solutions across satellite, broadcasting, telecom and many other industries. Some of the most distinguished companies around the world have established Intorel solutions as a part of their daily business.

In 2002, Intorel launched the first version of later to become its flagship product - Visionic .

The company’s products can be used for any industrial application that requires reliability, automation and advanced features, regardless of the type or size of an organization. In particular, Intorel products have been used for monitoring and controlling satellite earth stations, sat-com systems, TT&C stations, broadcast stations and other satellite-related systems. It may be the only M&C solutions company in the world that joined RF with DVB communication and scheduling under the same roof.

Visionic Vsionic

Visionic is a Monitoring and Control Platform Solution that can encompass the whole organization, of any type and size. It serves as a basis for a wide range of Intorel M&C software products and comes in a variety of editions. Visionic is the answer to multiple, often contradictory requirements of different industries and various market segments. It combines the simplicity of a simple drawing tool and a power of complex M&C solution.

Visionic is designed to be used for any industrial monitoring and control that requires reliability, flexibility and fast implementation. In particular, Visionic software products have been used for: DVB-S/S2 Satellite Uplink/Downlink Stations, VSAT Systems, TT&C Stations, Fixed and Mobile Microwave Links, DSNG Systems, Fiber Optic Systems, DVB-T Encoding & Multiplexing Headends, ATM/SDH/PDH/IP Transport Networks and IPTV Head-ends.

It is designed to provide integration of all your NMS subsystems into a single, convenient solution.

Visionic Professional Visionic professional

Off the Shelf System

Visionic is a commercial product, and does not require special equipment or software. Installation is fast and straightforward.

User Interface

Following the well-known Visionic philosophy, system design is based on a simple “drag and drop” of selected device into your workspace. User interface is equipped with gradient elements and background drawing in high quality.

Custom dialogs, designed according to your preferences replace old-fashion dialogs.

Clients

Unlimited number of clients per M&C server (royalty free) is allowed. Visionic5 new, modern user interface definitely provides both look and feel of well-known, familiar Office 2007 /2010

Devices Drivers Library

Design libraries, incorporated in Visionic GUI, contain hundreds of devices. This feature allows you to draw your design to precisely resemble the real time system.

Easy to use

Visionic is based on simple, familiar concepts, and it doesn’t require programming experience. It offers a unique user experience and considerably reduces the training time and effort.

Multi-Page Design

Multi-page design allows you to see your system or systems in several alternative views. These different standpoints might provide you a new perspective and lead to new ideas

Wizard Assistant

Visionic user interface incorporates design-time wizards, carefully developed to assist the engineer in system design and optimization.

Simple & Centralized

Visionic5 offers all Visionic functions on one place (Visionic Starter). Project export includes all files required to run the system, including Visio and all drivers. Import effectively (re)installs the system on the computer. Visionic5 can operate without Internet connection, given the fact that all device drivers included in the installation package.

Centralized Control When a system has multiple GUI workstations connected, the Visionic grants control of the system to one operator at any given time. This way, Visionic proofs your system against the possible human error.

Automation and Macros Visionic integrated macro recorder and auto-backup elements are designed to allow any kind of automated response.

Scheduled Actions

It is possible to define actions whose execution will be triggered by particular event or in predefined time intervals.

Logging, Charting and Reporting

Every operation, alarm, alarm acknowledgement and any other user action is logged for further analysis. The logs can be stored on the local hard disk, in a form of text files, or in the database, for up to one year. Logs entries can be used for a detailed charting and reporting, based on any selection criteria. The selection criteria are fully definable by the operator. Visionic5 offers integrated replacement for RRDVisLogger. It is not dependent on IIS or SQLExpress and installation is included in Visionic, there is no separate MSI file. Charting and trending definition are part of the project.

Alarm Manager The system can execute any action in case of equipment's failure or alarm (SMS, phone call, e-mail/pager notification, industrial horn, etc…). In case of suboptimal conditions, the system will raise an alarm, assigned the severity level (major, minor, warning) represented by colour code. Acknowledgement function allows an operator to remove particular alarm from the list. In addition, events that triggered alarms can be exported to excel file.

Colour coding Colour-coding of the equipment and its various states allowing perception of the system state at a single glance. The system is refreshed on regular basis keeping the equipment and the colour of the lines always up to date

Security Management The Visionic supports several levels of security, allowing shared access between several operators with strict user rights management.

Uplink Power Control Poor weather conditions can seriously affect data transfer, including satellite transmissions, broadcasts or telecommunications. Visionic incorporates Uplink Power Control, a feature designed to prevent the signal loss or degradation and to ensure secure, seamless data transmission regardless of the weather conditions. UPC is based on simple, but efficient principle – it increases the transmission power of the uplink, thus taking over the function of hardware equipment such as amplifiers and significantly reducing the costs.

Remote Spectrum Analyzer Command and Display Visionic can be used to accurately measure frequency, amplitude and modulation including distortion, spurious, phase noise of any communication signals. SA can demodulate a broad range of standard-based and general-purpose digital signals and formats.

Carrier Level Monitoring Carrier Level Monitoring Systems provide satellite operators, teleport operators and other service providers the ability to automatically monitor RF carrier performance, with minimal effort.

Full Redundancy Visionic offers a full system redundancy in case of network faults and interruptions.

Automated G/T Measurements Automated GT measurements are incorporated. Having advanced access to these measurements enables engineers to address potential issues early in the design cycle.

Compilation system Complete project is stored in a single VZ file, including all drivers (DLLs), MODBUS and all other settings now in project files.

Visionic Runtime

All Visionic5 files are centralized in one place:MIBs, HOSTS files, registry settings are replaced with files under project settings. Once compiled, the project is independent from the rest of Visionic system.

Solutions and services

Earth Station Systems VSat & DSNGs IPTV Video Headend DVB-S2 Measurements Broadcast Fleet Manager Central View Manager Visionic Carrier Monitoring

References

Intorel...Visionic 5 Is Visionary In A Centralized System, satnews.com, January 24, 2013
A Case In Point: M&C in Myanmar - Intorel’s Visionic M&C system: SatMagazine, satmagazine.com, November 06, 2012.
Intorel has rolled out Visionic version 4.2, a monitoring and control solution for the broadcast and satellite industry, satellitetoday.com, February 20, 2009.
CASE STUDY - The COTS Benefit — Intorel's Visionic : SatMagazine, satmagazine.com, September 7, 2008.
Intorel announces new Visionic Updates with launch of Version 3.55 satellite monitoring and control system by Duncan Burford, September 17, 2007.
Intorel launches new version of pioneering Visionic 'click and drag' monitoring and control system for broadcasters by Tom Bandenburg, creativemac.digitalmedianet.com, April 12, 2007.
Pals uses the Visionic Universal M&C system developed by Intorel (www.intorel.com ), pals.com, November 14, 2006.
The whole system is controlled by the Visionic monitoring & control system, hiltron-communications.com.com.

External links

Intorel homepage

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 Visionic is a commercial product, and does not require special equipment or software. Installation is fast and straightforward.
 ''User Interface''
@@ Line 47: / Line 48: @@
 Custom dialogs, designed according to your preferences replace old-fashion dialogs.
 ''Clients''
 Unlimited number of clients per M&C server (royalty free) is allowed. Visionic5 new, modern user interface definitely provides both look and feel of well-known, familiar Office 2007 /2010
 ''Devices Drivers Library
 ''
 Design libraries, incorporated in Visionic GUI, contain hundreds of devices. This feature allows you to draw your design to precisely resemble the real time system.
 ''Easy to use''
 Visionic is based on simple, familiar concepts, and it doesn’t require programming experience. It offers a unique user experience and considerably reduces the training time and effort.
 ''Multi-Page Design''
 Multi-page design allows you to see your system or systems in several alternative views. These different standpoints might provide you a new perspective and lead to new ideas
 ''Wizard Assistant''
 Visionic user interface incorporates design-time wizards, carefully developed to assist the engineer in system design and optimization.
 ''Simple & Centralized''
 Visionic5 offers all Visionic functions on one place (Visionic Starter). Project export includes all files required to run the system, including Visio and all drivers. Import effectively (re)installs the system on the computer. Visionic5 can operate without Internet connection, given the fact that all device drivers included in the installation package.
 ''Centralized Control
 ''
 When a system has multiple GUI workstations connected, the Visionic grants control of the system to one operator at any given time. This way, Visionic proofs your system against the possible human error.
 ''Automation and Macros
 ''
 Visionic integrated macro recorder and auto-backup elements are designed to allow any kind of automated response.
 ''Scheduled Actions''
 It is possible to define actions whose execution will be triggered by particular event or in predefined time intervals.
 ''Logging, Charting and Reporting''
 Every operation, alarm, alarm acknowledgement and any other user action is logged for further analysis. The logs can be stored on the local hard disk, in a form of text files, or in the database, for up to one year. Logs entries can be used for a detailed charting and reporting, based on any selection criteria. The selection criteria are fully definable by the operator. Visionic5 offers integrated replacement for RRDVisLogger. It is not dependent on IIS or SQLExpress and installation is included in Visionic, there is no separate MSI file. Charting and trending definition are part of the project.
 ''Alarm Manager
 ''
-The system can execute any action in case of equipment's failure or alarm (SMS, phone call, e-mail/pager notification, industrial horn, etc…)
+The system can execute any action in case of equipment's failure or alarm (SMS, phone call, e-mail/pager notification, industrial horn, etc…). In case of suboptimal conditions, the system will raise an alarm, assigned the severity level (major, minor, warning) represented by colour code. Acknowledgement function allows an operator to remove particular alarm from the list. In addition, events that triggered alarms can be exported to excel file.
-In case of suboptimal conditions, the system will raise an alarm, assigned the severity level (major, minor, warning) represented by colour code. Acknowledgement function allows an operator to remove particular alarm from the list. In addition, events that triggered alarms can be exported to excel file.
 ''Colour coding''
 Colour-coding of the equipment and its various states allowing perception of the system state at a single glance. The system is refreshed on regular basis keeping the equipment and the colour of the lines always up to date
-''Security Management''
+''Security Management''
 The Visionic supports several levels of security, allowing shared access between several operators with strict user rights management.
 ''Uplink Power Control
@@ Line 106: / Line 117: @@
 Poor weather conditions can seriously affect data transfer, including satellite transmissions, broadcasts or telecommunications. Visionic incorporates Uplink Power Control, a feature designed to prevent the signal loss or degradation and to ensure secure, seamless data transmission regardless of the weather conditions. UPC is based on simple, but efficient principle – it increases the transmission power of the uplink, thus taking over the function of hardware equipment such as amplifiers and significantly reducing the costs.
-''Remote Spectrum Analyzer Command and Display''
+''Remote Spectrum Analyzer Command and Display''
 Visionic can be used to accurately measure frequency, amplitude and modulation including distortion, spurious, phase noise of any communication signals. SA can demodulate a broad range of standard-based and general-purpose digital signals and formats.
 ''Carrier Level Monitoring
@@ Line 114: / Line 126: @@
 Carrier Level Monitoring Systems provide satellite operators, teleport operators and other service providers the ability to automatically monitor RF carrier performance, with minimal effort.
-''Full Redundancy''
+''Full Redundancy''
 Visionic offers a full system redundancy in case of network faults and interruptions.
-''Automated G/T Measurements''
+''Automated G/T Measurements''
 Automated GT measurements are incorporated. Having advanced access to these measurements enables engineers to address potential issues early in the design cycle.
 ''Compilation system
 ''
 Complete project is stored in a single VZ file, including all drivers (DLLs), MODBUS and all other settings now in project files.
 ''Visionic Runtime''
 All Visionic5 files are centralized in one place:MIBs, HOSTS files, registry settings are replaced with files under project settings. Once compiled, the project is independent from the rest of Visionic system.
 '''Solutions and services'''
 Earth Station Systems
 VSat & DSNGs