The DRM Consortium presented a comprehensive overview of Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) as the ideal digital radio solution to cover the whole of Indonesia, as part of a two-day digital radio workshop organised by Kominfo (Ministry of Communications, Information and Technology of Indonesia) on October 8-9.
The DRM presenters gave a detailed overview of DRM technology across various frequency bands (LF/MF/HF, VHF in FM Band, and Band III) highlighting the core features and applications such as Emergency Warning Functionality, Public Signage, Distance Learning, traffic information.
As Indonesia is looking at introducing DRM in AM, FM and part of band III, the multi-channel transmissions, also, suitable for public, commercial but also community stations, got a lot of attention from the over 300 participants online and in person.
At the event RF2Digital also showed for the first time their solution with easy switch between DRM and DAB on band III, a solution developed for the Indonesian market.
Other Starwaves products and the module are upgradeable to Band III on request.
The presentation and demonstrations were delivered by key members of the DRM Consortium: Ruxandra Obreja, Chairman of the DRM Consortium, Johannes von Weyssenhoff, CEO of Starwaves and Chairman of the DRM Technical Committee, Matthew Phillips, Product Director at CML Micro and DRM Steering Board Member, H.C. Liu, General Manager at Toncy (a subsidiary of Gospell) and DRM Consortium Member.
On October 9, Fraunhofer IIS (Alexander Zink and Sharad Sadhu) will present the core features of Digital Radio which both – DAB and DRM – have in comon and make proposals for the successful introduction and implementation of digital radio in Indonesia. This is followed by a presentation from WorldDAB.
There will also be a chance to answer some of the questions of the many participants, as over 50 questions were registered only today.