Cerebrum
Easily control, configure and monitor your workflows in any production environment

As a complete Broadcast Control System (BCS), Cerebrum gives you control over your most critical broadcast operations. Accessible via one application, the system’s powerful and highly customizable interfaces allow you to control, configure and monitor any broadcast environment the way you want. Cerebrum is designed to be robust in both small to large infrastructures and adapted for SDI and IP, offering you a scalable solution that is ready for today’s and tomorrow’s operations.
Core benefits
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Everything is customizable
Users are free to modify the interfaces’ default templates or design their own for a highly customizable experience, both on a live system as well as offline at home using snapshots of the system.
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Designed for mission critical live events
Built on a database system, Cerebrum can handle many operational commands in milliseconds. It lets you access all configuration information from any client, making it especially advantageous for larger systems with many devices and clients.
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Adaptable to any scenario
Cerebrum is designed to be robust in both simple and very complex scenarios and is adapted for SDI and IP environments. An extensive list of APIs and protocols ensures compatibility with almost any third-party broadcast device
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Agnostic licensing model
You don’t buy device specific drivers or licenses. Instead you buy a number of device points which you can use for any device, using any of the more than 200 included protocols.
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Lower cost of ownership
Competitively priced options, comprehensive functionality and user-friendliness combine to reduce the need for manual intervention. Cerebrum offers you potentially dramatic savings.
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For today’s and tomorrow’s operation
Besides configuring and controlling conventional SDI environments, Cerebrum is fully capable of managing IP infrastructures.
Cerebrum hardware
Besides the Cerebrum software, which can be installed and licensed on any Windows based (virtual) server, PC, laptop or tablet that meets the minimum system requirements, the following hardware components are also available.
Cerebrum server
Although Cerebrum can be installed on any server or virtual machine that meets the minimum system requirements, we can also supply you with a preinstalled server. The preinstalled server comes with a Windows server 2019 license and with a Cerebrum license dongle.
Cerebrum redundant server system
Although Cerebrum can be installed on any server or virtual machine that meets the minimum system requirements, we can also supply you with a preinstalled servers. In the redundant system topology, there is a primary server, a secondary server and a witness server. These three server can be supplied preinstalled by EVS. The preinstalled servers come with Windows server 2019 licenses, an MS SQL server license and with a Cerebrum license dongles.
Cerebrum control panels
Cerebrum Control Panels provide a hardware control surface for a Cerebrum system. They are customized using the Cerebrum Designer application, which comes for free with every installation. All devices connected to the Cerebrum server(s) can be controlled or viewed from this physical surface.
CGP-4848
The CGP-4848 General Purpose I/O unit is a 1U rack mount panel with 48 General Purpose Inputs (GPI’s) and 48 General Purpose Outputs (GPO’s) available on six 37 way ‘D’ type connectors on the rear of the unit, each connector carrying either 16 inputs or outputs.
Product documentation
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Cerebrum - product Sheet + protocol list V2.4.pdf
29 June 2023 Download the PDF

New: Web clients
- Show your customized control GUI's in any modern web browser
- UI's designed for thick clients, created with the same Cerebrum Designer application (f.o.c.), can be shown on the web clients
- Web clients are hosted and managed from the Cerebrum Server (HTTP/HTTPS)
- Comes in packages of 5 concurrent web client licenses, independent of thick-client licenses

Control panels
Operate any device or router in your facility using Cerebrum's highly customizable control panels

Get the most out of your EVS equipment
At EVS, we understand how important it is for our customers to gain an edge in the live production environment. That’s why we’re empowering operators and technical engineers to become advanced users of our technology – leading to better production values, streamlined workflows and better ROI from your EVS investment.
Cerebrum is designed to master your most critical broadcast operations