Laureus comprises the Laureus World Sports Academy, the Laureus
Sport for Good Foundation and the Laureus World Sports Awards.
Collectively, these three elements form the essence of Laureus,
harnessing the power of sport to promote social change and celebrating
sporting excellence.
The Laureus World Sports Awards is
the annual celebration of that achievement, when athletes from across
the sporting spectrum are judged by the world's media and the legends
of the Laureus World Sports Academy and the work of the Laureus Sport
for Good Foundation is showcased.
THE TASK
Laureus
contacted us for a project that would enable them to capture all the
Television footage broadcast on European and Worldwide TV channels
during the Awards event and regarding the Ceremony itself, but also any
small coverage on news and commercial channels.
In the
past they relied on asking/purchasing recordings from the broadcasters
and monitoring agencies which was a daunting and costly task.
What
they required was the ability to make the recording in house, using a
satellite system which could be remotely accessible and with DVR
functionality to be used for personal and commercial records of the
event.
THE PROJECT
After a
few meetings in which we discussed the requirement in depth, we
proposed a system that would receive free and pay-tv broadcasting from
the main European countries other than UK such as Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, and Middle East channels.
This was
achieved by installing 4 satellite dishes on the head end of the roof,
of which 3 fixed on the main European and Middle East satellites and 1
motorized for the reception of the odd channels not receivable on the
other 3.
The whole system was designed and installed to
be fully upgradable in terms of outputs in order to allow further
expansion without fully replacing any of the components.
On the user end we opted for satellite receivers based on the Linux operating system, or commonly called Linux Boxes.
Those,
once programmed and connected to the existing office LAN network and
therefore to the internet other than to the satellite dishes, would
allow them not only to access each single unit from any workstation in
the office, for easy sharing and the viewing of the thousands of
channels broadcasted, but also to work and view the recordings stored on
external hard drives without leaving the desk.
Also, using a easy to use web interface the end users would be able to interact with the single satellite receivers to:
- schedule recordings remotely;
- streaming live channels;
-
download the recordings both from PC or from mobile devices such as
smart phones and tablet computers connected to the internet;
- and then, of course.... to change channel too!
The
new satellite system was then connected and integrated into the
existing office multi TV system delivering the new thousands of
channels received together with the ability to watch the recordings for
work and recreational purposes.
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