As a scalable system, Kijito meets the detailed monitoring requirements of individual broadcasters. Small systems can operate in street cabinets, providing basic verification. A large system can monitor all of the network streams, ensuring that each stream is both self-consistent and consistent with the others.
Many existing tools expect a rigid conformance to the MPEG standard, but broadcasters’ practical needs often lead to standards divergence. Kijito’s configurability supports such deviations and verifies that streams are as expected, even when non-standard.
Through its extensibility, Kijito offers support for alternative methods of stream capture and monitoring of specialized stream content.
It is crucial, for the correct operation of consumer equipment, for metadata on different streams to correlate correctly. If inter-stream reference errors arise, consumers can be subject to unacceptable behaviour: incorrect service selection, faulty EPG operation and even major tuning problems.
A Kijito stream monitoring system in the live network can ensure that such anomalies are identified as quickly as possible, providing broadcast engineers with a head start and the possibility of solving the issue before the telephone calls start pouring in. A lab-based Kijito system can verify potentially damaging metadata alterations before they go live.
Kijito provides a comprehensive monitoring facility, deployable throughout a broadcast network. Validation of individual streams and cross-validation of multiple streams can be done exactly as required by the individual broadcaster. And as the network adapts, Kijito can adapt with it.