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The Interactive Video Technology (IVT)
Development Environment
IVT is a rapid development environment to deliver
flexible and scalable applications, bring people and information together and increase
productivity, and give a competitive advantageUse
your existing television cable plant to provide television services, educational services,
and communication between hospital information systems.
The cable television plant is used to provide networking services
between staff computers and administrative staff stations and the Windows NT
operating. |
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software, hospital staff involvement is significantly reduced when developing interfaces
with HL7 ADT Systems, Dietary Management Systems, and Third Party Billing Systems.
Interfaces are straightforward and far less costly than those developed to interface with
systems that utilize "proprietary software". IVT does not rely on television
channels for data communications. Channel based systems allow any television that might be
tuned to the channel over which data is being transmitted, to view that data. Instead IVT
sends digital data to a specific television or group of televisions, thereby providing the
level of security required for sensitive or confidential data |
Interactive Video Technology
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About Interactive Video Technology (IVT)
IVT is a two way interactive television,
communication, and control network designed specifically for hospitals. Low cost
hardware and software components are easily and cost effectively attached to the coaxial
cable system providing fully automated entertainment and educational television services,
video on-demand and a wide range of interactive applications.With IVT, information may be sent to, or received from, every patient bed,
lounge, classroom, clinical or administrative office, or any other location that has
access to the coaxial cable system.
Using IVT's RF communications technology, voice, video and data
can be delivered to all IVT equipment equipped televisions and computers on the
network. IVT also provides the ability to control from each television, remotely
located VCRs, Laser Disc Players, Video Cameras, Printers, Video Servers, and other
devices.
IVT assists hospitals to meet the requirements of JCAHO in the
documentation and delivery of educational video programming, and to deliver program
specific testing results reporting.
Powerful yet easy to use authoring software allows hospitals to
easily create or modify surveys, menus, questionnaires, multimedia presentation, etc.
IVT is compatible with all "Smart Televisions" from
manufacturers such as Zenith, RCA, and Philips. IVT also supports small screen arm
mounted television installations. The IVT equipped 10" television has been
custom designed and approved for hospital use. IVT supports both large and small
screen arm mounted television on the same network. |
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Interactive Video Controller (IVC) 98
Audio/Video Distribution
IVC 98 is a computerized Audio/Video
distribution system and presentation generator which allows schools, hospitals, training
centers and institutions to schedule and distribute videos and presentation pages over the
in-house cable television system. From a single keyboard and mouse, IVC 98 allows
manual or automatic (scheduled) control of various devices such as VCR's, Laser Disc
players, and Media Players. IVC 98 utilizes the host computer as the Scheduler and
Presentation Editor, as will as a player of multi-media presentations. With IVC 98,
a single PC now acts both as the host computer and as a Media Player. This allows us
to eliminate one Media Player, making IVC 98 more competitively priced with other
companies' offerings while continuing to provide significantly more functionality and
features. In addition, IVC 98 can easily be expanded to meet hospitals' changing
needs, with no equipment obsolescence. |
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Digital Media Players
IVC 98 will also control Digital Media Players,
each capable of playing a minimum of 3-4 hours of MPEG-1 programming. Video sources
and user-created presentation pages in PowerPoint can be scheduled to play at specified
times on designated channels. Take video signals from Satellite Receivers, Live
Camera Feeds, Teleconferencing Equipment, etc., and distribute them over the television
system. One IVC 98 video switch will control up to 14 video devices, and connect
any of the devices' output to any or all of 6 output channels. IVC 98 flexibility
allows a virtually unlimited number of configurations. The system can be easily
expanded to control more devices and provide additional inputs and outputs. To
ensure ease of use, all presentations, message page creation, device control, and
scheduling, are performed using a single keyboard and mouse. With minimal training,
anyone with Windows 95/98 experience will be able to take advantage of IVC 98's many
features. |
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IVC 98 provides everything necessary to easily show professional looking message pages
that can incorporate video, text, stereo sound, clip art, and animation. Great looking
presentations and messages are easily created using the included presentation software
IVC 98 is compatible with both Audio/Video baseband
or CATV RF broadband television systems |
IVC 98 presentations created in PowerPoint™ can be enhanced, with a
multitude of Windows 95, 98 & NT compatible video clips, graphics, fonts, clip art,
and audio files. |
Features:
 dozens of
fonts each having a minimum of 72 sizes
hundreds of clip art files
video files
animation clips
music and sound clips
large selection of page transitions: fade, wipe, dissolve, etc.
no practical limit to the number of presentations or message
pages
up to 16 million colors |
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Interactive Video Controller
IVT is an interactive television system designed specifically for
hospitals. IVT utilizes Windows 95 or Windows NT software to automate the delivery of a
wide variety of entertainment, education and information services to patients and staff.
Because IVT is designed to operate over existing coaxial cable systems, the time,
materials, and costs required for installation are kept to a minimum.
With IVT, hospitals can provide fully automated entertainment television services to
patients 24 hours a day, without the requirement of staff. Patients can view educational
programming at no charge, or at the hospital’s option, provide tiered television
rental services from sources such as cable, satellite/DBS broadcasts, or on a pay-per-view
basis. Where service is available, cash collection in the hospital can be eliminated by
interfacing IVT to third party invoice and collection companies. All entertainment charges
are sent to these companies electronically, for collection on the patient’s home
telephone bill.
When connected to the "Smart Port" of healthcare
televisions from Zenith, R.C.A., and Philips, IVT allows 100% of the televisions to
simultaneously provide interactive services. IVT also works with arm mounted televisions,
that can co-exist with "Smart Port" televisions on the same network. |
Interactive Screen Editor (ISE)
The Interactive Screen Editor (ISE), is a software authoring tool. When used in
conjunction with the IVT interactive television system, ISE allows hospitals to easily
develop or modify their own interactive television applications. ISE is Windows 95 or
Windows NT compatible, and provides a familiar Windows environment with many of the File,
Edit, Format, Tools and Help features found in most Microsoft programs.
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At the application host computer, ISE users simply type in the text they want
displayed on the television, and assign what action is to occur when a patient or staff
member makes a selection from the choices presented on the television screen. For example,
actions could be, go to the next question, or start an educational or entertainment video,
or return to regular TV viewing. ISE allows end users to define what is presented on the
television, and what action is to occur when there is a response from the patient or staff
member using the television as an interactive terminal. |
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The Interactive Screen Editor (ISE) supplied with IVT, utilizes familiar word
processing type features to allow hospitals to easily create their own questionnaires,
surveys, and other interactive applications. Hospitals will no longer be required to use
the costly services of interactive television vendors, with associated implementation
delays, to develop or modify applications. |
Interactive Screen Editor |
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Digital File Server Video on Demand
The Future Has Arrived.Introducing a
cost-effective way to deliver video-on-demand (VOD). And do it using your cable
network. You'll expand services and attract new business.
The Interactive Video Technology (IVT) is a complete, integrated,
end-to-end solution. The price, performance, and reliability are unparalleled in the
industry.
Integrated and Ready to
Go.
The IVT System is built to make VOD a widespread reality. Open Cable standards ensure
interoperability, low costs, and smooth integration. The System is fully integrated with
the Microsoft NT platform, and works as a real-time two-way network and with your
intelligent TVs. Bandwidth allocation is managed by the digital servers and there
are minimal proprietary computer network components. You can track usage of the latest
movies, educational material, programming and (optionally) can provide comprehensive
billing. From headend to viewers, the System is complete.
The Right Business
Decision.
The "buy rates" for VOD are proven by early trials around the world and the well
known video rental market. Our System can rapidly produces a positive cash flow by
providing an array of advanced services to digital subscribers.
Fault Resilience, Because
There's No time for Downtime.
Around-the-clock reliability calls for fault resilience of 99.997%. You get it with the
patented MediaCluster (optional) server technology. A MediaCluster is comprised of
multiple computers (each known as a node) directly linked in a high-speed mesh
architecture to function as a single server. Even a major system failure-like the loss of
an entire node-causes no interruption for the viewing audience. Redundant inputs and
outputs give you additional security. As do redundant power supplies. All VOD management
software has built-in failsafes to maximize subscriber reliability.
Engineered
for Flexibility and Scalability.
We designed flexibility into the System. It meets DVB or ASI standards for digital
television and supports various bit-rate encoding. It provides distributed network
support, and centralized or local content management. Locating the server at your headend
or at distributed hubs, and support 5,000 VOD subscribers with just one standard rack. And
the System is scalable, so you can easily expand to meet exploding demand. You can serve
hundreds of users-or millions.
Single Copy Store.
Our unique RAID2 ("RAID squared") and MediaCluster technology use
data striping and parity techniques across disks in a node but also across multiple nodes
in a server. This allows you to deliver simultaneous playouts of the same material, with
different start times, all from a single digital copy. This also delivers fault resilience
so if a disk or a node fails, the video plays on. This innovation solves the storage and
data management challenges of VOD.
This is
Going to Click with Your Patients.
Users will appreciate the VCR-like functionality: fast-forward, pause, rewind, skip
backward, skip forward. And they'll love the Movies on Demand (browsing titles and
categories-even watching previews), News on Demand, Sports on Demand, Interactive
Shopping, and more are all available. You can also develop applications with standard APIs
like Banking on Demand and Shopping.
The Time is
Right for video-on-demand.
You have the cable television system. You have the patients and staff. The demand for
interactive television is here. The technology is real and ready. The return-on-investment
(ROI) justify the investment. The only question is, when do you want to reap the rewards?
System Highlights
IVT Software System: Redundant Windows NT Enterprise Servers
Content management:
- Microsoft SQL Server for Windows NT
- Media Management Software
- Propagation Service
- Directory Service
- Connection Management Software
- Streaming Service
- Movies on Demand set-top and server applications
MediaCluster:
- Standards-based video servers (Windows NT,Intel processors)
- On-line storage of terabytes and off-line storage support
- Twelve 9GB or 2GB SCSI drives per node
- Load-balanced RAID2 striping
- DVB/ASI output 300Mb/sec per node
- Node Agent Streaming Software
Affordable equipment, enhances services, rapid return on
investment, and the expansion of revenue and new subscribers. All good reasons to call
today for more information.
MediaCluster and RAID2 are trademark of
SeaChange International, Inc. All other trademarks and registrations are property of their
respective companies. |
About the Digital Video Server
The Video Server is a fully scaleable multi-user platform with broad
capabilities. The server is network neutral with and open architecture based on
industry standards, designed to fit into existing environments. This architecture is
designed to allow for easy expansion to meet the needs of growing installations, as will
as the transition from low to high bandwidth content delivery.
The power of the Server's open system architecture, Windows NT operating system and linear
scalability can send uninterrupted streams of video, audio, and graphics to televisions,
kiosks, or PCs, to more that 1000 simultaneous users. This allows individuals to
interact with high bandwidth multimedia content whether all individuals are viewing the
some content or separate content.
There is no duplication of content required across server notes, yet every output channel
has access to system wide content. The advanced capabilities of the Server's digital
video archiving and delivery technology makes this streamlined and automatic programming
update process possible. |
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