September 1, 2006
Icareus together with the University of Turku, partnering companies and local content producers carried out a new Mobile TV pilot in Ilosaarirock Music Festivals 14th-16th of July.
The pilot was a part of the Icareus’ DVB-H Event 2006 project which includes testing the new Mobile TV and Filecasting platform and relating service concepts in different kinds of public events around Finland. The project will last until the end of the year. After the music festival, the next events will be related to conference and sports.
The purpose of the project is to investigate, how DVB-H and mobile networks can be used in an efficient and user friendly manner to offer broadcast mobile TV services, on-demand services and different kind of interactive services. In each event related to the project, the project group will build its own local DVB-H network. Nokia N92 phones and 32” fixed screens containing DVB-H receivers are used as test devices.
The piloted demo services at IlosaariRock were:
• TV channel to DVB-H handheld devices providing video material from different stages.
• Event info material and user generated messages over DVB-H to the 32” fixed screen.
• Interactive event service guide including e.g.
- DVB-H channel selection,
- DVB-H radio selection,
- Interviews Video-On-Demand services over 3G,
- Festival schedules,
- Band introductions and
- Festival area map service.
The first pilot event, IlosaariRock, provided a lot of valuable information about integrating the festival event’s primary production to the DVB-H / 3G broadcasting back-end solution in real time and about it’s functioning as well as event video production in practice. Furthermore, the different concepts of filecasting with DVB-H were also tested. The pilot also gave useful information about transmitting and receiving the DVB-H signal in the events with several tens of thousands of participants.
Icareus partners in the project are Turku University, TeliaSonera Finland, Tietokartano, ICT-Turku, North Carelian Polytechnics, Tekes and Digita.
For more information, please contact: Mr Toni Leiponen / Icareus Ltd toni.leiponen(at)icareus.com m. 041-501 5996
