For NAB in Las Vegas, Volicon announced the release of Observer OTT, an over-the-top (OTT) audio/video service monitoring solution intended to capture content delivered over IP networks to smartphones, tablets, and computers and then verify the streams' integrity and compliance with the FCC's closed-captioning and loudness regulations. It's also intended to allow users to confirm that the apps used to access content are functioning properly.
It's designed to compare the content sent with that received via the target device, and also to confirm the integrity of the content being consumed across geographically distributed locations, even without access to the direct feed from the CDN.
The solution ingests content from variety of target mobile devices to see how consumers experience streamed content, and also to supply recording history. It's also intended to facilitate remote streaming and review, as well as compatibility of both unencrypted and encrypted content.
The Volicon OTT user interacts with the actual devices and applications being examined. A series of scripts can be employed to verify a variety of use cases.