1. Broadcast Use Cases from Event Producers
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doc.: IEEE yy/xxxxr0
September 2018
Broadcast Use Cases from Event Producers
Date:
Authors:
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software
John Doe, Some Company

2. Month Year
doc.: IEEE yy/xxxxr0
September 2018
Abstract
This presentation describes the use cases for BCS from the event producers in BBC.
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software
John Doe, Some Company

3. Background The BBC hosts a number of public events every year.
September 2018
Background
The BBC hosts a number of public events every year.
The events include
500 – 1000 people; Studio audience or premiere screenings
4,000 people; 6 Music Festival
9,000 people; Teen Awards
25,000 people; Radio One’s Big Weekend
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

4. Contents Distribution for Waiting Audiences
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Contents Distribution for Waiting Audiences
Audiences are typically made to arrive early and queue with little or no entertainment.
For example; in 2017 the BBC ran a number of Doctor Who Christmas Special Premieres at various fringe locations around the North of England. These venues tended to have few facilities. One such venue was a disused cinema.
The queuing fans would gain considerable benefit from being able to watch previous Doctor Who episodes or new exclusive content.
As there are no existing facilities at these events a cheap and easy to rig Wi-Fi system would mean there would be no need for large screens and related logistics.
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

5. Program Monitoring for Staffs
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Program Monitoring for Staffs
Radio One’s Big Weekend is the most ticketed free music event in Europe.
There are typically 2,000‑3,000 backstage staff who are required to watch induction videos.
They normally crowd around screens and watch the videos in batches.
A system that could deliver the induction videos to people’s personal devices would mean no rigging of screens and allow more people to watch the video at a time. Saving both time and money.
Many people at large events need program feeds. These could be performers in dressing rooms or technical staff in backstage areas.
Typically, this is done by rigging SDI feeds to monitors. This is expensive and inflexible. A Wi-Fi based system would allow people to monitor on their own devices, reducing costs, reducing rigging time and allowing the selection of multiple feeds.
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

6. Providing Additional Values at Festivals
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Providing Additional Values at Festivals
Enable a ‘virtual drive-in-movie’
Deploy in limited area near charging facilities to provide video content for festival goers.
At large festivals there are often simultaneous stages or it’s impossible to get between stages promptly. Live streaming of video feed from simultaneous events/multiple stages would provide access to performances that festival goers might miss.
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

7. September 2018
Problems
Association limits per AP and achieving association on a busy network.
Sleep mode and the need to spam the network with beacons to keep devices from going into power save mode. This had a varying impact, dependant on each device type/ operating system.
Sometimes devices inappropriately switched 'roamed' between the access points we had on our network.
Sometimes devices would switch to an AP that was further away and with lower signal strength, other times they would remain stuck on a low signal strength AP even when they were right next to some other AP.
The L2 security enhancement is a must as it'll protect users from malign packets.
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

8. Additional Use Cases Use at train or bus stations
September 2018
Additional Use Cases
Use at train or bus stations
Mobile phone networks and Wi-Fi networks congested
Coffee shops/ shopping centres
Free to air services
In house promo
Tie in with movies
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

9. Business Cases Chip/ equipment sales Video delivery revenue
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Business Cases
Chip/ equipment sales
Some of the BBC use cases low numbers of equipment
High numbers of chips in devices
Video delivery revenue
Premium services
Advertisements
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software

10. Broadcast Wi-Fi by BBC R&D
September 2018
Broadcast Wi-Fi by BBC R&D
Hitoshi Morioka, SRC Software