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Case study · Broadcast SaaS
2025 — present

Building the monitoring system television never had.

ARGOS MCR is a real-time SaaS broadcast monitoring platform. It operates 24/7 across five TV channels in production. I started building it in 2025 and it's still active.

24/7
continuous monitoring
<1s
alert latency
+20
monitored nodes
5
channels in production
My role
System architectProject ManagerTechnical directionMulti-tenant strategy
Context

The broadcast monitoring tools that exist are built for a different budget or to solve a different problem. At the channels where I worked, producers and editors lost between 20 minutes and an hour searching for on-air fragments they knew existed. It wasn't a people problem. It was an infrastructure problem.


Architecture

Three gods, one obsession: see everything in time.

Each component of the system carries the name of a Greek deity. It's not a coincidence. Three layers solving three different problems.

Α
Central core

ARGOS Panoptes

«The all-seeing one»

Hundred-eyed giant who never rested. The central panel where signals, infrastructure, and operations converge. Advanced Reporting & Global Observability System.

Η
Field agents

HERMES

«Speed without limits»

The winged-sandaled messenger who delivered messages in milliseconds. Distributed agents on every node reporting back to the core. Hardware Emission & Remote Messaging Ecosystem System.

Ι
Notifications

I.R.I.S.

«Rainbow joining sky and earth»

Messenger of the gods and bridge between worlds. The system that translates technical alerts into actionable notifications for the human team. Intelligent Reporting & Information Service.


Modules

Full control of broadcast operations.

Master Control
MASTER
Signal monitor
Real-time video, audio and SRT. Automatic signal-loss detection with Telegram alerts.
BROADCAST
vMix · ATEM · VideoHub
Production state, routing and Blackmagic switcher control. Real-time routing map.
Infrastructure
NODES
Distributed telemetry
HERMES agents reporting CPU, RAM, disk, and latency on every server in real time.
NETWORK
UniFi network
APs, switches and WAN. Connected clients and per-segment network status.
ALERTS
P1–P5 traffic light
Five severity levels, configurable cooldowns, automatic notifications.
LOGBOOK
Black box
Full history with end-to-end traceability for post-incident analysis.
Production & AI
TIMECODES
Timecode logging
IN/OUT marking synced with vMix, stopwatch, YouTube, or local video. Automatic email export.
GRAPHICS
Live lower thirds
Lower-third text from any device. vMix updates itself via Data Source.
TIMECODE VIEW
Collaborative sessions
Real-time monitor of active timecode sessions, without interfering with operations.
AI · WHISPER
Live transcription
Whisper AI running locally. Real-time transcriptions and natural-language search.

Channels operating

Five channels in 24/7 production.

A24América TVAether TVCH7My Padel TV
«The tools that existed were built for a different budget, or to solve a different problem. So we built our own.»
From the ARGOS blog · November 12, 2025
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