Abstract: A director receives trigger data collected from a plurality of nodes, where the trigger data indicates a status of a node. The director processes the trigger data to add a display destination indicator and a display screen location indicator. A multicaster receives the processed data from the director and transmits the processed data based on the display destination indicator. A receiver includes a visual stimuli database and receives the transmitted data from the multicaster. The receiver associates the transmitted data with a selected visual stimuli to create a semiotic representation of the status of the node and transmits the semiotic representation to a display. The display receives and displays the semiotic representation in accordance with the display screen location indicator to represent the status of the node.