Idonix

January 2012

BBC election graphics

BBC News awards Idonix a long term contract for the provision of real-time election graphics and automation systems. With a service centred around the soon to be launched Ignition automation system and Idonix's expertise in Viz scripting, the BBC are assured of the best possible solution to their demanding requirements.

November 2011

BBC News lower thirds

Idonix provide consultancy and training to the BBC in the development of a new suite of HD lower thirds graphics for their core news services. Using their Viz scripting skills, Idonix deliver robust transition logic to choreograph straps, tickers and dogs, and to manage the multitude of styles required by the BBC's news and current affairs programming.

June 2011

Re-launch of www.ethicalconsumer.org

With a brand new look, the site includes fully interactive buyer’s guides that allow users to order company rankings based on their personal ethical stance. Idonix built the site using the DNN CMS, with the Buyer’s Guides fronted with JQuery and CSS5 and backed with a RESTful web service.

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May 2011

Live data-driven Viz touch screen for BBC News

Using advanced Viz 3.3 scripting techniques and working closely with the design team at BBC News Graphics, Idonix build a truly flexible tool that allows presenter Emily Maitlis to tell the stories behind election night.

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May 2011

Graphics automation for the BBC’s marathon 2011 election coverage

A mammoth 22 hour session of live election coverage for both BBC News at Television Centre and BBC Scotland at Pacific Quays in Glasgow. Encompassing Local Councils, Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly and the AV Referendum elections, and driving Brainstorm graphics in London and Viz graphics (built by Idonix) in Glasgow, all from a common IGO control system.

March 2011

Live graphics for BBC News 2011 Budget coverage

Coupling IGO graphics automation with Vizrt scripting and rendering Idonix once again provide a slick and efficient service to the team at BBC Millbank.

October 2010

BBC News Spending Review

Idonix provide the graphics for the BBC's live coverage of the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review

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October 2010

Idonix is now a Microsoft Certified Partner

With a Microsoft certification in software development you can be sure that Idonix can deliver the quality solution you need.

May 2010

Automation systems for BBC 2010 General Election coverage

Idonix once again provide an IGO automation system for the BBC's flagship election coverage. This year we're also driving BBC Scotland's graphics in addition to those at Television Centre in London.

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May 2010

Election result prediction system for ITN

Idonix develop a system to provide predicted results for ITN's 2010 election coverage. A C# windows smart client publishes predictions to a web service.

April 2010

Live graphics for BBC Budget 2010

Idonix again provide live graphics for BBC 2's coverage of the Chancellor's 2010 Budget. This year we add something extra with virtual table-top pie-charts and bar-charts to help illustrate the figures.

January 2010

Idonix appoints Tom Chafer-Cook as a software developer

Tom is an Electronic and Computer Engineering graduate from the University of York, and brings with him a wide range of programming skills, experience, and enthusiasm. Having recently moved to Much Wenlock he is keen to start working on exciting new projects and become part of the team.

December 2009

Marketing expert raises profile

Idonix has appointed Yvette Thorman to join the team. Yvette will be responsible for over-seeing the company's marketing activities and raising the profile of the company’s range of expertise and services. Yvette brings with her a wealth of experience in marketing and corporate development and makes a valuable addition to the team.

September 2009

Data visualisation and web development for E-Day 2009

Animated web graphics displaying real-time electricity demand data, a web service sitting on a SQL Server database, and a dotnetnuke web site to wrap it all up.

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June 2009

Graphics automation for BBC's 2009 Euro election coverage

Another outing for our IGO automation software, this time for BBC2's 2009 Euro Election coverage, driving eStudio render heads from Brainstorm Multimedia.

November 2008

Graphics automation for the BBC's 2008 US Presidental Election Coverage

IGO automation ran the graphics systems at BBC Television Centre for the coverage of the historic 2008 US Presidential elections, with Flash rendered graphic preview screens available to presenters in the BBC's Washington studio. Data was collected via FTP from BBC Online's Washington based results desk and the Associated Press VoteCount service.

September 2008

Joe Marriot appointed as software developer

Idonix are pleased to announce the appointment of a new member to our development team. Joe brings huge enthusiasm and DirectX programming skills to Idonix.

February 2008

Data visualisation for the E-Day web site

Eye-catching animated web-site graphics displaying real-time national electricity demand data from the National Grid. The lightweight, browser friendly graphics animations were built using just javascript, and 'AJAX' techniques (using JSON instead of XML in AJAX) for the data.

December 2007

DNN website for Ethical Consumer Magazine

Implemented with the DotNetNuke asp.net framework, www.ethicalconsumer.org is a brand new fully content-managed web site for Ethical Consumer, the UK's leading alternative consumer organisation. Idonix created custom DNN modules to display syndicated content from www.ethiscore.org, and built a new CSS layout skin especially for the site.

October 2006

Custom monitoring application for Independent Radio News' new satellite distribution system

Developed in C# under the .net framework 2.0, this system logs and displays the ongoing performance of IRN's Tellitec ip based satellite distribution system. The system is notified of the generation of new content, and continuosly polls three different ftp servers for it's delivery.

May 2006

Idonix provide graphics automation for BBC2's May 2006 Local Election coverage

Our IGO automation software ensured the smooth running of BBC2's 2006 Local Election coverage, driving eStudio render heads from Brainstorm Multimedia.

May 2005

Graphics automation for BBC 2005 General Election coverage

Another successful outing on BBC1, BBC News 24 and BBC World for the IGO automation system. Real-time data feeds, along with seven operators, driving five tOG-3D rendering engines from rtSoftware.

...throughout you showed a real understanding of the editorial demands, and a great sensitivity to what we were trying to achieve...

Diana Martin, Assistant Editor

May 2003

Live graphics and data systems for BBC Welsh Assembly and Local Elections

Automated graphics systems for BBC Wales, S4C and for BBC2 Westminster, driving Pinnacle Rocket and Matrox CG2000 graphics machines from tailored IGO solutions.

December 2002

Data management and web sites for Ethical Consumer Research Association

RefsBase, a .net application with a SQL Server backend, is a database containing information on the ethical behaviour of over 30,000 companies. It is front-ended by the Corporate Critic and Ethiscore web sites, also developed by Idonix. RefsBase is founded on our ground-breaking dataspace technology.

August 2002

Automation systems for Microsoft live events

A number of projects using UniCue automation technology encompassing live graphics and gameshow control, working with PCI Fitch in locations including New Orleans, Amsterdam, London and Atlanta.

...the programme worked superbly and made the concept of a full variety show with only two hours rehearsal a reality. It gave the show real pace, complexity and a fullness that just wouldn't have been possible in the past. It was a real groundbreaker!

Grenville Houser, Producer

November 2001

Gameshow automation for major US entertainment company

For this project Idonix developed the UniCue control system - a scriptable automation system encompassing graphics, interfaces to audience voting systems and studio control via MIDI, question data and operator panels. In use at theme parks in Florida and California.

November 2001

Question editing system for major UK TV production company

QED has been used to provide Question and Contestant management systems for a number of major gameshow formats. To date it has been rolled out to locations as diverse as the UK, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Hong Kong and China.

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July 2001

Gameshow automation for a major UK TV production company

A "UniCue" control system now runs TV shows in Hong Kong and Singapore.

May 2000

Gameshow system for Thomson Holidays

In association with Outrageous, Idonix created a "gameshow on a laptop" for use at Thomson holiday resorts. The system outputs still and MPEG based graphics to a VGA projector, WAV and MP3 sound, and interfaces to an RF based audience voting system.

July 1999

Business systems for a number of UK manufacturing companies

Idonix have authored numerous applications including On-Line Transaction Processing and Management Information Systems. Based around both custom-designed databases (SQL Server and Oracle) and as interfaces to major ERP and legacy systems. Clients included The Corus Group and Brintons Carpets.

June 1999

Results system for BBC Wales 1999 Assembly election coverage

A system was provided to input and collate constituency result data, with distribution to various destinations and in various formats - including the Peter Snow "swingometer" and the BBC Intranet site. Based on distributed Jet databases and Message Queuing technology.