Opus Professional ©

Opus Professional © is a PC based workstation used to control and manage CCTV and alarm handling control centres. It is suitable for small single user systems, up to large multiple workstation schemes with distributed control and is especially suited to large corporate or Government / Council organisations.

Several add ons such as Tannoy Systems, switchers, routers, telemetry cards etc are available. Click HERE to be taken to the accessories page.

Our SOFTWARE POLICY ensures that you, the buyer, retains absolute control over your own systems by allowing you to outsource maintenance and upgrades to a third party. This is a VERY important agreement as many similar products forbid outsourcing of alterations due to restrictive software policies and IP issues which can lead to threatened legal action, effectively tying you, the buyer, into the installer for the life of the software. This effectively means that you will have to delete the software if you wish to change maintainers. Not the case with Opus Professional ©.

An additional Opus Professional © Management package allows the control of very large alarm systems, with automatic messaging to DECT and GSM (mobile) phones, Lone worker and Panic call management, with location reports on DECT handsets, along with remote control of door entry systems via workstations or DECT handsets.

The Opus Professional © workstations are standard PC’s running windows NT/2000/XP and can be interconnected by the Opus network, or connected directly to the target hardware.

The Opus Professional © network is specifically designed for high reliability, multiple redundancy, and fast mean time to repair without the requirement for specialist skills.

The workstations are all linked to an Opus Professional © Switch which is firmware device responsible for distributing the PC communications. The Switch in turn connects to Data Routers, which are responsible for communicating with peripheral devices such as matrices, telemetry receivers, multiplexers, telephone systems etc.

The whole system can reliably and quickly operate using ‘slow’ data links of 19,200 bauds including the PC interconnection and does not depend on a high speed network such as CAT5 (Ethernet), nor centralised file servers. Opus Professional © routers have been recently upgraded to support baud rates in excess of 115,000 which allows the Opus Professional © routers to easily handle digital audio.

In many cases the digital audio can be piggy backed onto existing fibre networks.

The concepts and software have been field proven for more than 8 years on large schemes supporting up to 12 work stations. Work-stations can be positioned throughout the scheme, connecting by hard wire, fibre or microwave, as only a 19,200 baud data link is required to integrate them into the system.

Some larger schemes have more than 40 remote nodes connected by fibre optic to control centers, each node often controlling and reporting from at least 6 devices local to that node, i.e. CCTV cameras, remote alarms and telephone systems.

The only common equipment in the scheme is the data Switch, which being firmware based can be replaced in a few minutes with no configuration required, and the hardware is identical to the data routers, ensuring a minimum spares holding.

Data is transmitted between the PC and the target device using a full 16 bit crc check on data integrity. Almost any serially controlled device can be connected directly to a data router and optional interfaces allow the integration of a variety of other communications technologies.

Drivers to suit a large number of peripherals are supplied with the system.

The drivers (which control the target hardware) are written in a published script language, and simple drivers can be written by the installation engineer.

Third Party Support - If you are a CCTV installer that has "inherited" an Opus Professional © system, we will gladly provide support for the system as well as training for your engineers so that you may eventually maintain the system without external support. We can supply any Opus Professional © spares, many of which are directly compatible with other similar systems.