Dibsys Hotel IPTV solution/system
Support three screen
Overview
DIBSYS hotel solution is a special edition of DIBSYS products that customized for integration withhotel property management system (PMS). Especially its Android based STB can support client with its various requests within the time in the hotel. We can provide following services to hotel client directly operate from TV.
² Welcome page, hotel introduction display in the checking-in.(Add scrolling subtitles message or advertisement during the program)
² By clicking the menu button, customer can enter the hotel service, eight sections of services are provided to hotel guests as following:
- Live
- VOD
- Food
- Service
- Sceneries
- Billing
- Phone (Three screen interactions)
- APPs (Web surfing, Gaming, Radio, Photos, and Content from external USB equipment)
For the content and layout of each section, please look at the following screen-shot for the further information.
Features
Ø Custom-build a set-up, designed especially for a hotel's very own needs, such as hotel introduction, catering services, shopping service, sceneries inquiries, billing information, etc.
Ø Provide a flexible third party business interface, can be connected to the hotel reception, or imported world clock, weather, flight, call service, market management, government information, etc.
Ø Android OS uniform platform, support multi-screen function and multiple terminal accesses.
Ø Provide video on-demand (VOD), replay, time shift, interactive games and other interactive services.
Ø Distribute terrestrial and satellite television programmers to every room all the way through the building flexible, controllable signage and corporate branding.
Ø Hotel IPTV can deliver a vast range of local and foreign language channels.
Ø Customized UI design for the clients, new experience in the fashion and sports fields.
Ø Unparalleled network security.
Ø All programs will be available on demand. Amongst alternative pluses, a network based video recorder enables them to record programmers from the Electronic Programmers Guide when they are out, to watch later at a more convenient time.
Ø Costs, space and energy are saved by dispensing with free view IPTV Boxes, video recorders and even TVs where PC viewing is adopted.
Ø IPTV turnkey solution for the hotel is that it continues to be lower maintenance, while still delivering a high-end service with little or no fuss.
IPTV server:
Screen Shots
Guest welcoming page includes scroll subtitles at both upper and lower sides, which push advertising, hotel introduction, or other information. In the middle, it is a display of hotel video/photo or hotel logo and up to 10 photos can be showed. Under the picture, there is entrance to various server menus.
The menu displays 8 section services provided by hotel operator. Additional options and services can be customized on this list and users can easier flip over the icons on the menu to the next page.
Click the “phone”; you can get the QR code. Scanning by phone/pad to install the APKs it will achieve multi-screen function
Hotel server
VOD
Cases of hotel IPTV solution
1.Simple hotel IPTV solution
It is a demand of analog signal to digital signal with 48 channels HD ávideo streaming program and 30 channels SD video streaming program for 120 rooms. The customer needs a low cost solution, so we recommend as below:
1). for the headend equipment:
The signal received from RF demodulators & decoder and output with HDMI/AV. For the video encoder, we used MagicBox HD316, which can support 16 channels CVBS+HDMI input simultaneously. Calculation is as follows:
HD: 48CH /16=3 sets
SD: 30CH/16≈2 sets
For the client’s requirements (48 HD and 30 SD channels project), 3 sets MagicBox HD316 is enough.
Meanwhile, the optional solution is using high quality broadcasting encoder: ENC3184 SD encoder and ENC3381 HD encoder. This is suitable for carrier grade operator who has more demand in performance.
HD: 48CH/8=6 sets
SD: 30CH/8≈4 sets
2). Hotel IPTV software: 1 set
3). STB140H Amlogic S805 Quad-Core IPTV Android STB: 120 sets
2. Resort hotel IPTV solution
The system was complex as it was used in resort hotel where covered hotel, hospital, shopping, villa, etc. The signal sources are mainly from DVD player, monitor video signal (cctv signal), DVB-T RF, etc. As the buildings are dispersed, so transmission of all program were wireless and LAN. In the Network center we only need to set up the management server, IPTV middleware VOD server, IPTV gateway and other necessary equipment. The solution contained 200 program and we formulated special IPTV service for hotels, hospital, and departments to meet different demands.
Conceptual framework:
3. Hotel IPTV + Mini CMTS solution
It is a typical Hotel IPTV + Mini CMTS solution. The client’s requirements are as follows:
70 HD channels IPTV system exists, now want to share these 70 HD IPTV channels to 300 rooms of the hotel. The hotel already has the coaxial cable distribution. The requirement is users in each room can see the IPTV channels and sharing the other IPTV functions. In order to save the cost and take advantage of the existing coaxial cable distribution. In this solution, we introduce the Mini CMTS to firstly convert IP signals to Coaxial RF signal by using the Mini CMTS, and distribute all the channels via coaxial cable. At the room’s side, we can use a Cable Modem to convert coaxial RF signal to IP signal.
Equipment configuration:
DB-CMTS8100_1RU CMTS: 1 set
Dibsys DOCSIS Cable Modem: 300 sets
Advantages: with the application of Mini CMTS and Hotel Cable TV system, customers can also get a more pleasant experience in the hotel.