#IBC2024
IBC2024 ACCELERATORS: EVOLUTION OF THE CONTROL ROOM
AND ECOFLOW: ENERGY-CONSERVING OPTIMISATION FOR FUTURE-READY, LOW-IMPACT ONLINE WORKFLOWS
Two of the eight ground-breaking projects from this year’s IBC Accelerator Programme will be presented on the Innovation Stage today – ‘Evolution of the Control Room – Leveraging XR, Voice, AI & HTML-Based Graphics Solutions’ and ‘Ecofl ow: Energy-Conserving Optimisation for Future-ready, Low-impact Online Workfl ows’. This morning will also see a special incubator project being presented – ‘Connect and Produce Anywhere, Phase II’. Evolution of the Control Room has been jointly proposed by Champions Transmixr, ITN, BBC and TV2 Denmark with support from Champions HSLU, Trinity College Dublin, TG4, Technological University of the Shannon, YLE, EBU and the University of Strathclyde. Participants are Tinkerlist, Nxt Edition, Loopic, SPX Graphics and Cuepilot. The wide-ranging project seeks to break technical boundaries and pose wider industry questions around live production workfl ows, architectures and controls. The core of the project is to develop a suite of
fl exible options for broadcast media production. “We’ve identifi ed areas within broadcast production that are in need of transformation and we’ve selected an overarching theme focusing on elections, to demonstrate the potential of an XR-powered control room solution, with integrated voice control, AI and GPT, and HTML-based graphics solutions. Rather than aiming to replace the traditional on-premise control room altogether, we want to develop an alternative solution that can add value where it’s most needed,” explains Grace Dinan, TUS Senior VP Broadcast Specialist with Transmixr, who is leading this headline strand of the project together with Jon Roberts, Director of Technology, Production & Innovation at ITN. The HTML Based Graphics project aims to develop a modular graphics solution that supports multi-platform delivery, and real-time end-device rendering and playback. It aims to use industry-standard graphics and programming tools for graphics development along with common off-the-shelf web components for storage and visualisation – essential elements to achieve the desired modularity. The aim is to allow broadcasters and their
creative teams to mix and match graphics tools as they wish, based on which is best
for individual use cases, then being able to seamlessly manage and edit the results into whichever formats are required. Ecofl ow was proposed by Humans Not Robots and
Accedo.tv, with support from Champions ITV, BBC, EBU, ITN, Greening of Streaming and RTL, and Participants Quanteec, Bitmovin and Cognizant. The project tackles the environmental impact of media consumption by developing consolidated metrics for energy usage at major steps of the end-to-end technology supply chain, aligning best-of-breed energy-saving features into a unifi ed user experience. It will essentially determine and demonstrate opportunities to make processing, streaming and media consumption more measurable and sustainable. Ecofl ow will measure the energy performance of certain key elements of the content supply chain, such as CDNs, encoding, transcoding and advertising delivery, to create a base measurement. With this base as a starting point, Champions will test proposed power-saving features to determine the impact within the broader supply chain.
“Rather than aiming to replace the traditional on-premise control room altogether, we want to develop an alternative solution that can add value where it’s most needed” Grace Dinan, Transmixr
Today, the team will demonstrate their
fi ndings and advancements. The showcase will include a demo app that tests energy effi ciency features in a repeatable and structured way, providing insights into how specifi c features impact energy usage.
Kristan Bullett, CEO of Humans Not Robots, says: “In the context of IBC, we are focused on delivering an understanding and educating the market on two key pieces. First, the media supply chain, focusing on major costs including distribution. Secondly, showing end consumers what technologies and techniques are available to reduce the power consumption exhibited by the current generation of smart TVs.” Finally, a special incubator project will be presented today. Following the build and
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John Ellerton, BT Media & Broadcast
development of an all IP, edge-fi rst, multi- cloud, multi-software test bed environment in the CAPA Accelerator 2023, the project team is now positioned to implement and road test the solution on some real-world live event production scenarios where there are varying degrees of available bandwidth. Connect and Produce Anywhere, Phase
II features Champions BBC, BT Media & Broadcast, Sky, EBU, Vodafone Group, TV2 and Channel 4, and Participants Zixi, LAMA, TSL, Techex, Norsk and Vizrt. The project’s specifi c challenge is to push further innovation through experimentation in environmental monitoring and measurement; orchestration; deployment observability; and other transport elements, business case and licence options.
“For 2024 we want to show that this works in practice at a number of real events,” says John Ellerton, Head of Media Futures at BT Media & Broadcast. “We aim to evolve it to include more interfaces, more features, automation and service monitoring, showing the way to something that could actually be deployed for commercial use.”
Connect and Produce Anywhere Phase II takes place from 11:15-12:15 today on the Innovation Stage in Hall 3. It is followed by Evolution of the Control Room – Leveraging XR, Voice, AI & HTML-Based Graphics Solutions at 14:00-15:00 and Ecofl ow: Energy-Conserving Optimisation for Future-ready, Low-impact Online Workfl ows at 16:45-17:45.
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