5G Radio.
A Revolution for Sport
Audio to mobile phone via 5G or 4G or Wi-Fi
Highly reliable
Ultra-low-latency
Realtime fan engagement
Realtime commentary
Realtime biased commentary
Live referee/field microphones
Additional stadium audio content
Unlimited listeners
Configurable TV synchronisation for at-home
Used by major broadcasters
Drastically Improved Audio Reliability
RIOT Broadcast uses a different technology stack to conventional hearing augmentation and Wi-Fi based stadium audio solutions. Our solution:
Adapts to network conditions
Aims to preserve the human voice
Provides multiple levels of error correction
Originally developed by Google, our technology stack branches and specialises work done by the open source community. We assigned some of the world’s best audio developers to optimise a forthcoming Metaverse technology to achieve the audio latency, scalability and stability we have today on both Android and iOS. Our eco-system is highly supported and more audio-performant than any other mobile-radio streaming service. It is perfect for the stadium.
80-150ms Latency. Why?
The stadium is a unique beast with unique challenges in acoustic physics & technology. Faster is often less ideal. In optimising our audio performance, we have considered the performance of stadiums worldwide including:
Typical reverb time, impulse response, speaker positions and distances
Latency of IPTV and audio-hardware
5G & Wi-Fi network conditions in-stadium vs optimised buffering
Human thresholds of vision, audio impulse perception and the speed of sound
The impulse response below shows how one short sound is perceived. It shows the initial time gap, heavy early reflections and long reverberation tail. Stadiums worldwide typically have an intelligibility loss of 50% or more, meaning over 50% of the words spoken over the PA system are not humanly comprehensible at a typical listener seat.
By positioning our latency near the front of the impulse response we provide the best opportunity to enhance PA audio, sync with IPTV and provide perceptibly instant commentary and real-time fan engagement.
A New Dimension for Sport, Fans & Business. Really.
Biased (team based) radio commentary
Realtime unbiased commentary in-stadium
Referee microphone audio. This is a surprisingly popular choice by listeners in-stadium
Provide these streams at-home with the ability to synchronise them to TV
In-app-purchase can monetise premium stream access
Many of these real-time streams are already being achieved/monetised by our existing broadcast partners
Security & Platform Reliability
99.99% global uptime
Multi-cloud redundancy
Multi-region infrastructure
JWT access tokens & permissions
256-bit TLS transport layer encryption
Secure websockets
AES-128 media layer encryption
Secure API design
TV Synchronisation
Bring biased commentary (and other streams) into the lounge room with our TV synchronisation feature.
All TV broadcasts are delayed. The exact delay varies depending TV station, match location and other factors. TV delay typically ranges from 4-90 seconds.
RIOT provides a settable delay to match all TV broadcasts.
Set the delay, and turn the sound down on your TV.