Low cost hotel iptv solution for hotel digital tv system

- 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.

All the UI design and hotel service details are based on the hotel requirement.

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 “wifi”; you can get wifi access point ( with wifi name and password).

It can improve hotel service level by providing value-added service. With hotel iptv, people do get more convenient experience in life service. Also, it is a great promotion of consumption patterns that help your business.

Special food promotion: support picture, video and character form. Customer can choose food at the certain categories, such as western food, Chinese food, and check the selected order in “my order”.

Local attractive promotion: It is a service of sceneries introduction that can meet quest’s travel inquiry, understanding local customs and practices. Clicking the picture, quests can view the sceneries’ detailed introduction and map, traffic information.

◆Recommend several of service facilities, like conference room, fitness, entertainment.

◆Offer schedule flight information synchronous to airport, reveal the departure and arrival time of domestic or overseas airline.

◆Support scrolling subtitles to play notification message, reveal check-in, check-out and consumption information and so on, even can push online message from guests.

In the media center, hotel guests can watch news from their preferred live channels, preferred movies and radio from all over the world by using the edge cutting streaming delivery technology OTT. TV picture and voice are smooth and clear without any delay. In addition, guest can enjoy their photos, documents through connecting the STB with their storage devices. Hotel operator can set up their billing system like pay per view or package for selected channels or movies to generate revenue.

Live TV can play HD and SD program, and it support EPG with manual and automatic ways.

We could add more useful and fun application in the hotel solution for the entertainment in rooms for the entire customer who is interested in the android market.

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:

◆ for the headend equipment:

The signal received from RF demodulators & decoder and output with HD MI/AV. For the video encoder, we used MagicBox HD316, which can support 16 channels CVBS+HD MI 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

◆Hotel IPTV software: 1 set

◆ STB140H Amlogic S805 Quad-Core IPTV Android STB: 120 sets

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.