Project exploring capabilities and uses of DAB’s data services.

Nick Piggot (GWR)
Ewan Silver (GWR)
Mike Page (Panasonic)
Bill Sharpe (Mobile Bristol)
Erik Geelhoed (Mobile Bristol)
Richard Hull (Mobile Bristol)
Huw Jeffries (Mobile Bristol)

Lon Barfield & Peter Maxwell
(UDP Ltd.)

With this project we aim to:

• Demonstrate DAB’s capability to send multimedia data alongside existing audio services. The data will complement the audio with: album images, interviews with the artists and interactive games. These will be triggered by the broadcaster.

• Demonstrate conditioning of the audio by inserting downloaded sound clips at certain points in the playback. The sound clip that gets played could be chosen based on context provided by sensors, for example location.

• Add in a low bandwidth backchannel allowing users to provide feedback to broadcasters, for example to vote for their favourite artist or song.

• Add in a high bandwidth backchannel (possibly 802.11), making it possible to download content over the Internet. EG an advertiser could broadcast an advert that contains a link to their website. This could be viewed within the confines of the GWR-branded browser.