Urban media experiences powered by FLAME

Abstract

Today, users want more engaging and meaningful media experiences, especially localized to their context and community. Physical and virtual spaces are colliding, allowing mobile users to move between increasingly interactive and content-rich spaces, and to participate in co-creation of experiences that bring together digital and physical worlds. User demands and technology trends are pushing media companies to search for new technologies that engage with users, communities and spaces to create places for culture, entertainment and learning. FLAME is building a software-based 5G platform for the deployment of Future Media Internet (FMI) services across the city. 5G technologies and new network paradigms fulfil the strict requirements of the new trends of media services in terms of low latency, flexibility, high fidelity, etc. This whitepaper identifies these market trends and pays special attention to the offering of localised experiences in the city. This is one of the relevant media and entertainment use cases for 5G. The city is not only a place to live or to consume media content. The city is also a place to enjoy cultural experiences that involve media, to interact with other people, to learn about symbolic values (like the city’s history) or to play games. In fact, one of the main city trends is the generation of content by users, who immediately share it via social networks. As described in this whitepaper, the project has deployed the FLAME platform on real smart city infrastructures to enable new media validation experiments. These experiments have confirmed the FLAME technical proposition for media services and have revealed insights into the way users interact with the city.

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ORCID for Michael Boniface: orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-6095

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