DesignOps AV and Control Software
A comprehensive Design, Creation, Configuration, Control, Operations, and Management application for complete Audio, Video, and Control system deployment.
Designed from the ground up with advanced software design incorporating contemporary web technologies, the software provides a dramatic new level of speed, ease of use, capabilities, and innovation.
Detailed site design, configuration, and programming.
- Design of sites with a wire-free methodology
- Segment sites into multiple, independent spaces
- Off-line emulation without hardware
- Elegant creation of attractive control screens
Flexibly customize, optimize, and manage AV systems.
Interact with various Symetrix and third-party products through software modules and an open API with control via UDP, TCP, HTTP, SSH, and JSON RPC to route signals, assign end points, control devices, and more.
Customizable, vector-based control screens are built without writing code or relying on specialized design software including designing visual themes for easy re-use.
Powerful commissioning, diagnostics, management, and monitoring functionality with real-time status, full system metering and detailed, searchable diagnostics and event logging.
Create multiple, independent spaces for sites with audio and control signal distribution using a wire-free process that are reusable and then allocate hardware as needed.
DesignOps Capabilities
- Software-first system design
- Segment designs into reusable spaces
- Wire-free software workflows
- Software-driven scalability
- Configure and program Cognio hardware and managed devices
- Control screen creation, including themes
- Re-use of themes, spaces, signal processing, and more
- Audio processing modules for signal routing and shaping
- Management of Dante network audio channels
- Commissioning, diagnostics, management, and monitoring
- System metering, searchable diagnostics. and event logging
- Emulation of signal processing and control functionality in real time
- Transmit strings using TCP/IP, or UDP/IP to control third-party devices
- Third-party control system support via a JSON RPC control API
- LUA driver support with control via UDP, TCP, HTTP, SSH, and more
- Set parameters of, store, and recall control presets
- Manage use and access of hardware, control screens, and user devices
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Introduction to Cognio™ Platform
Course
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Intro to Cognio™ Platform
Webinar
Unlock the full potential of your AV systems with the Cognio Platform. In this introductory session, you’ll get a guided tour of the platform’s capabilities and its architecture. Whether you're new to Cognio or looking to understand how it fits into your workflow, this webinar will give you a clear overview of what Cognio can do for you.
Intro to Cognio™ DesignOps Software
Webinar
Get an inside look at DesignOps Software, the patented workflow that modernizes AV system creation through an intuitive, wire‑free, software‑first workflow. This introduction shows how DesignOps streamlines design, supports more flexible system planning, and delivers a clearer, more efficient approach to building AV workflows across any project size or complexity.
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Design Segmenting
- Design spaces and signal flows first, then allocate hardware as needed.
- Design systems with flexible signal flows that need less hardware.
- Dynamically adjust the input and output of Individual modules to support mono, stereo, or multi channel audio with all upstream modules automatically updated.
Organize processing and control in separate independent spaces.
Site Designing
- Design sites using a wire-free process with a grid, spreadsheet style methodology.
Eliminate repetitive tasks, reduce manual effort and accelerate project timelines.
System Scalability
- Create complete solutions without being tied to specific hardware.
Scale smoothly from designing a small space with just a few components to the largest of sites.
Off-line System Validation
- Use signal generation to emulate signal processing and control functionality in real time without being connected to hardware.
- Run the unified COGNIO OS directly in the application to test and validate designs and hardware in advance without being connected.
Real-time signal generation displays indicators through signal path modules.
Operations Management
- Commission, Diagnose, Control, Manage and Monitor systems with the application.
- Repeat and share various tasks including provisioning, configuring, and programming.
Activate Operation Mode with real-time status, full system metering and detailed, searchable diagnostics and event logging.
Control Screen Creation
- Create vector-based control screens that are unique to user requirements and are visually engaging without writing a single line of code or relying on specialized third-party design software.
- Update control screen designs with just a single click.
- Easily adapt control screens to different panel sizes or aspect ratios.
- Build multi-panel interfaces with built in navigation and without having to duplicate common controls.
Reuse designs with custom themes.
Design Element Re-use
- Create and reuse themes, spaces, signal processing, and other site aspects.
- Define sets of styles once and reuse them across projects or share with team members.
Create a library of assets to use across projects.
Signal Processing
All classes of audio processing modules for signal routing and shaping are provided with easy connecting, replacing, and adding in the grid design interface.
Presets
Set a number of parameters in control presets to be recalled via panels, switches, user devices, control screens, or by third party controllers.
Security
- Manage use and access of Cognio hardware, control screens, and user devices.
- Strong access controls limit end-user access to just those control aspects that are permitted.
Default End-to-End Encryption, encrypted disk images secure boot, signed firmware, and secure updates via SFTP.
Signal Flow Optimizations
Create full systems for different spaces without the need for a traditional DSP that include signal processing, AVoIP audio channels, and control in various types of smart COGNIO hardware systems.
AV over IP Audio Channels
- Route transmit and receive channels of Dante audio between physically separate hardware units providing a mechanism to build huge multi-unit processing architectures.
Configure the Dante network audio buses, set the operating mode of the Dante ports, and manage Dante I/O modules.
Device Control
- Connect Symetrix systems, third-party devices, control systems, and monitoring platforms to route signals, assign end points, control devices, and more.
- Transmit strings using TCP/IP, or UDP/IP to control third-party devices or use external TCP/IP signals to trigger internal functions.
- End user control options include Symetrix TC- Series touchscreens and W-Series controllers, xIO endpoints, end user devices, along with support for third-party control systems such as Crestron and AMX via a flexible JSON RPC control API.
- Consistent Lua driver model for Dante and non-Dante Devices with control via UDP, TCP, HTTP, SSH, and more.