The City of Calgary is developing Canada’s first ATSC 3.0 Smart City to deliver next-generation broadcast services using the ATSC 3.0 television transmission system. This new system is IP based and allow for the ability to deliver IP data for other applications beyond television video/audio programming services. These non-television services include datacasting applications including first responder networks, digital signage and remote education delivery services.
Humber College’s B²C Lab will be designing, developing and implementing new applications for the City Calgary over a multi-year period for experimental broadcast deployment. These services will enhance the city’s data delivery capacity and robustness and offer greater resiliency and contingency in emergency response situations (first responder networks for Police, Fire and CEMA units). Other new services will provide enhanced information over broadcast (emergency alerting for the public and digital signage) and will provide more equitable delivery of services to address the digital divide and barriers to connectivity (remote education and learning models). As Calgary’s deployment capabilities expand additional new applications (such as traffic control, fleet data delivery, variable speed signage, AR/VR and Broadcast Positioning System (for GPS back up/augmentation) will be developed.