In Broadcast - September 2017 - 66

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 9 | September 2017

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Qorvo Innovative Smart Home
and IoT Applications
T

he Internet of Things is now a part
of consumers' life in many ways:
home and lifestyle monitoring, energy
efficiency, security and access control.
As cable operators and broadband
service suppliers start to offer smart
home services to their subscribers; the
demand for affordable and easy-toinstall smart home devices connecting
to the set-top box or gateway is
therefore growing quickly. They need
low cost and robust smart home
devices allowing their subscribers
to connect, control and manage
their home via a single app on their
smartphone.
Companies should think about what
consumers are expecting from these
smart home applications. Smart Home
as a Service (SHaaS) is the next step
for service providers to be successful,
as consumers want a set of
intelligent connected devices
able to communicate with each
other. This set must be a simple

turnkey solution, compliant with major
communication standards. Customers
would certainly be willing to pay an
additional fee to get this all-inclusive
service, especially as operators can
have access to high-quality and
affordable sensor devices.
Qorvo will showcase leading RF chip
innovations, including next-generation
Wi-Fi 11ax, IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee
solutions. Qorvo will also demonstrate
smart home solutions, with high-speed
and robust connectivity for home
monitoring, energy management,
access, climate and light control,
and remote controls technologies,
with two-way, interactive wireless
communication. Qorvo will also
showcase its senior lifestyle system,
allowing seniors to live longer
independently at home and giving

peace of mind to their
family and caregivers.
Qorvo
Wireless
Connectivity offers ultralow power wireless data
communication controller
chips and highly integrated
RF solutions, with integrated software,
tools and reference designs for the
connected home and the fast growing
Internet of Things (IoT) market. It
combines product and technology
leadership, systems-level expertise
and global manufacturing scale to
quickly solve customers' most complex
technical challenges. As one of the
leaders in the RF market with ZigBee,
Bluetooth and Thread communication
support, Qorvo will display a rich
offering of communication controller
semiconductor products and software
technologies for smart home data
communications and the IoT.
The Qorvo technology brings
RF chip innovations unique features that provide

Showcase: senior lifestyle system

better range, make it robust to Wi-Fi
interference in combination with high
reliability and low cost. The multistack radio chips support all major
low power networking protocols
simultaneously, assuring a futureproof platform for gateways and settop boxes, at low-cost. Additionally,
the ultra-low power advantage makes
the Qorvo radio chips best-in-class
and allows maintenance free solutions
when the battery life exceeds the
expected life span of the devices.
Finally, the small chip size and their
integrated design make it possible
to develop the smallest, unobtrusive
sensor devices.

Video Clarity To Demonstrate
IP Test Solutions
A

t IBC2017 Video Clarity and
PacketStorm
Communications
will demonstrate how manufacturers
and programme service providers can
apply a comprehensive test system for
the new SMPTE suite of standards for
Professional Media over IP Networks
(SMPTE ST 2110). The ST 2110 suite of
standards (-10, -20, -21, -30, and -40)
is currently in the final draft stage.
The demonstration will feature a fully
operational interactive demonstration
of IP network transport, IP network
emulation, media flow analysis, and
quality and performance testing for
uncompressed video, audio, and
ancillary data.
In the demonstration, IP transport
technology will come courtesy of
Macnica Technology, whose transmit
and receive solutions augment
or
replace
today's
SDI-based
architectures for delivering multiple
types of high-quality, contributionlevel
content.
PacketStorm

Communications will provide the
IP network emulation to simulate
actual network and media-over-IP
analysis conditions to measure flow
characteristics to ST 2110 based on
ST 2110-21. Video Clarity's RTM realtime monitor will provide the source
video playout and test the source
against the network output. The RTM
system plays uncompressed content
while it continuously measures audio/
video quality, as well as lip sync and
loudness, and applies a user-set
threshold for error events that are
captured automatically for playback
in a side-by-side comparison of the
source and downstream programme
signal.
Video Clarity will also demonstrate
two new IP products making their
European debut at IBC2017.
First is ClearView IP, the newest
member of the company's ClearView
line of video quality analysers.
Designed for broadcast product

manufacturers and programmers to
use in their test labs, ClearView IP
plays or records up to two channels
of uncompressed video from a highcapacity testing server into a SMPTEcompliant network. ClearView IP
can apply new IP standards and play
while recording in the IP domain -
critically important features for being
able to test video quality in a new IP
world. Through either automation
or straightforward desktop controls,
video
engineers
can
perform
recording, automatic alignment, and
highly accurate quality measurements.
The second new IP product is
ClearView Player IP, a high-capacity
server specifically designed for use in

IP Network
testing
demonstration

an IP infrastructure, with record and
playback functions for uncompressed
video using new IP-related video
transport
standards.
ClearView
Player IP can record one channel
and play back up to two channels of
uncompressed video programming
into a SMPTE-compliant network.
Manufacturers and programmers
rely on it to subjectively view video
for quality or to feed the output to
a processing engine for product
testing and encoder prequalification.
ClearView Player IP systems can
also be deployed for broadcast or
venue-based playback when an
uncompressed video source is required
in an all-IP environment.

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