Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation
Over 24 months, FLAME hosted over 20 experiments funded through four open calls with awards ranging from €50k to €130k. Four start-ups, twelve SMEs and four industrial partners were funded in nine verticals. Benefits to Experimenters Experimenters made full use of the opportunity to develop applications for FLAME with many getting a first exposure to
FLAME’s Grand Finale event “Bringing Media And Telco Together In The 5G Value Chain” brought together FLAME partners and media company experts who shared their project highlights as well as insights from demonstrating their experiments on the FLAME platform. The event kicked off with project coordinator Michael Boniface thanking all 11 consortium partners who have
Four third party projects are funded under the FLAME’s fourth Open Call. With this Open Call FLAME intends to further support the implementation of the 3rd party projects that were funded under the First, the Second and Third Open Call of the project (1 replicator from OC2 and 3 experiments from OC1, OC2 and OC3)
FLAME partners TNO have presented the design and a first evaluation of a localized crowd-sourced live video streaming system now ready for the market. The localised crowd-sourced multimedia production and distribution system was tested on the FLAME platform with Bristol University. The system enables mobile producers of multimedia content to serve their content in real-time
Nine third party projects are funded under the FLAME’s third Open Call. FLAME’s third open call requested 3rd party projects to explore edge experiences considering consumer’s desire for personalised, localised and interactive media content delivered through current and emerging human-computer interfaces used in outside spaces or between outside and inside spaces. The 3rd party projects
FLAME partners showcased the FLAME Platform at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) 2019 in Amsterdam Friday 13 September, to Tuesday 17 September. The FLAME booth showcased innovative FLAME media service use-cases for participative media services by ETH Zurich and DisneyResearch|Studios. Visitors literally got their hands on the technology using tablets to experience Augmented Reality (AR)
The FLAME ecosystem has achieved an important milestone in its development of a FLIPS (Flexible IP Service) platform (read previous blog article here: https://www.ict-flame.eu/blog-post/standardization-flame-ecosystem/) SBA platforms are being sought by operators to lower their deployment costs and make 5G service rollout cheaper and more flexible. It is one of the biggest changes that 5G brings
FLAME – a world-leading consortium of pioneers in 5G networking and technologies has been showcasing the latest innovations across a four-day event at the University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab. The ‘Urban Hacking in 5G’ event saw creative software teams compete to design and implement applications that deliver new media experiences within urban settings in
With FLAME addressing the Future Media Internet ecosystem, the integration with 5G has always been in the mind of the platform development. 5G addresses a number of key aspects, such as higher throughput, low latency, edge computing capabilities, among others, that are targeted by FLAME use cases as well as provided by FLAME platform capabilities.
FLAME was in the spotlight at the New European Media (NEM) Summit, 2019, held end May in Croatia. The FLAME platform was demonstrated to interested participants. In addition, information on the FLAME Open Call 3 was disseminated. The call opens on 9 August with the application process open until early November 2019. FLAME is soliciting third