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In 2020, the city of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines wanted to create an open platform for 5G experiments for its National Velodrome in order to meet the challenges of this future Olympic site for the Paris 2024 games. The region has therefore submitted an application to ARCEP (ARCCOM), in partnership with Nokia, France Télévisions, Qualcomm, Airbus and other partners, with different use cases covering "augmented sports coverage of competitions, developments in fixed and mobile audio and video equipment, the adaptation of AI in sports media and - of course - cases taking advantage of 5G technologies, where low latency and increased bandwidth are essential assets".
After the first tests carried out in 2021, which demonstrated the possibility of transmitting a live video stream from a mobile camera in 5G on the 26GHZ band - known as millimetre waves -, France Télévisions and its partners are continuing the tests at the Vélodrome national de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, on the occasion of the 112th World Track Cycling Championships.
France Télévisions is testing with NOKIA, Aviwest and XD Motion the 5G transmission of a stream from robotic cameras installed on the site of the Vélodrome National.
Two PANASONIC AW-UE 150 robotic cameras have been installed at both ends of the 250-metre long track. The live streams from these two cameras, encoded by an Aviwest video transmitter, are routed through a 5G 26GHZ network to Nokia's private network core.
The live feeds are processed by the Aviwest streamHub for redistribution in SDI format to the production vans (France.tv/ Eurovision). The cameras can be remotely controlled through this low latency 5G network using XD Motion's IO.Bot software.
It is also possible to use the camera tracking data available via the 5G network to produce Augmented Reality sequences remotely and in real time. For this purpose, a UCI logo was inserted in AR into the video stream.
These experiments allow France Télévisions and its partners to test, in real conditions, the possibilities offered by 5G for mobile, wireless event capture, while guaranteeing the quality of the data rates, low latency and the possibility of transmitting synchronised tracking data streams allowing the production of Augmented Reality sequences in real time.
These are all essential assets for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!
The tests will now continue...
