Experiencing the Live IIoT - London Connext Conference 2014 Keynote Presentation by Bryn Balcombe, Technology Director, London Live

1. DDS
Experiencing the Live IIoT
Bryn Balcombe
Technology Director, London Live

2. • How Industrial Internet Technologies and
Protocols will Change the Way We Experience
Live Events – in the Venue, in the Home, and
on Your Phone.

3. BACKGROUND

4. • 16 years in Formula One working on long term
technical strategy for live outside broadcast
productions
• London Live – 6 months to build entire
broadcast TV station from scratch: camera
acquisition in the field, studios, newsroom
automation systems, channel playout and web
streaming platforms

7. DDS

8. Proof of Concepts
• Started looking at DDS in 2008
• Two successful PoCs
• F1 Timing Data
• F1 OBC seamless video switching

9. Active DDS Deployments
• As yet unable to deploy in any London Live
Systems
• Does that mean there is no requirement?
• I’m on air 24/7 without out it so why is it
needed?
• Surely real-time communication is essential for
live productions?
• How is this being achieved at present?

10. People in the Loop
• Hamilton Rosberg battle or the lead, coming to
camera 2, take 2, stay wide show the gap, OBC
HAM Rear Facer, ROS Nose, take ROS, Graphics
gap progression? Yep show that, Contact ROS hit
HAM, Front wing damage, Replays? HAM’s off,
Team radio anything? Go team radio, “ROS hit
me, left rear puncture” Replays ready? Roll
replays. OK what’s else is gong on out there?

11. It’s all Publish Subscribe
• Director publishes a single stream of content to
the viewer
• Director subscribes to multiple sources and
selects which content to publish
• Track Cameras, On Board Cameras, Graphics,
Sound, Team Radio, Situational Awareness Data
• Information communication via voice and image

12. Interoperability challenge
• Legacy industry protocols
• HD-SDI – Serial Digital Interface
• 1.5Gbps
• Control data proprietary
• Silos of functionality
• Silos of unexposed data

13. Industry Shift
• Networking bandwidths now exceed
requirements of uncompressed video
transport which was previously a limitation
• Custom hardware and transport solutions will
move to commodity hardware, transports and
software

14. IP Studio
• BBC IP Studio Project
• Broadcast production re-imagined around the
new capabilities offered by the network and
software
• Every frame of video is uniquely identified
• Data is a first class citizen within the
production

15. DDS PoC – Seamless Video
Switching
• Formula One Car transmits video wirelessly using
DVB-T carrying MPEG2-TS data
• Received at multiple sites
• Uniquely identify each received video frame by
timestamp – publish valid frames from each
receiver site
• Subscribe to all and take next incremental frame
• £5m down to £100k

16. DDS PoC – Live Timing Data
• Formula One Car RFID tag detected at multiple in track
loops with timing accuracy to 1000th of a second
• Subscribe to loops, subscribe to drivers, subscribe to
gaps
• Calculate everything! Subscribe and filter
• Automatic failover
• Viewer interaction via WebSockets
• Routing data routing to bridge secure networks –
globally

17. Foundations for IP Studio PoC

18. FUTURE

19. INDUSTRIAL INTERNET

20. CAPTURE AT SCALE - PIXELS NOT
IMAGES

21. REALISTIC RENDERING

22. REALTIME RENDERING

23. PHOTOGRAMMETRY

24. POINTCLOUDS

25. 3D OBJECT TRACKING

26. 3D AUGMENTATION

27. FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO