CASE STUDY EVENT-STREAMING

Full service on-site, as live video production with 3 cameras

G&L offered the town of Monheim am Rhein an individual solution, tailored to their needs and according to their wishes, for the reliable expansion of their online presence with the aim of enhancing the image of their town as a brand. As a full-service provider, they offered both building blocks seamlessly from a single source: the video production on-site, as well as the responsibility of the subsequent live streaming or the reliable delivery of the subsequently archived streams of the events.

3 PTZ cams record the different sessions on-site and broadcast them live for viewers on the network at https://www.monheim.de/service-verwaltung/rathaus/stadtrat/rats-tv/. The controllable PTZ cams can be tilted and swivelled and can enlarge sections of the picture. They are operated by G&L on-site. Video mixers, recording and the necessary feed-in of crawling texts and captions are also responsible on-site.

Streaming at 60 fps & Akamai Media Services Live 4

The live streaming provides reliable high quality video for the audience with 1080p and 60 frames per second at the highest quality level. Akamai products are used to ensure high performance and reliability, such as Akamai Media Services Live 4 with low latency or Akamai Token Authentication. Akamai Media Analytics is used for streaming analysis, which ensures optimal video performance.

Akamai Media Analytics provides the town of Monheim am Rhein with insights into the viewer experience and the operation of the videos, which are important for monitoring consistent quality. This is because prolonged loading times, insufficient resolutions or intermediate buffering negatively affect the viewer experience. This leads to losses in the perception as a brand and is contrary to the idea of reliable bonding and communication with the citizens of the town of Monheim am Rhein. Transparency of video performance is thus important – and Akamai Media Analytics offers optimal conditions for this: through numerous metrics, dimensions and reports in all media platforms used.

The key advantages

• Immediate availability of the video recordings as live streams on the website www.monheim.de

• Highly reliable broadcasting in the highest quality
  

• Device-independent streaming via THEOplayer as playback component
  

• Full-service package – consisting of event streaming on-site and video broadcasting via the internet
  

• High-quality video streaming solution with image gain for urban brand development and interaction plus with citizens in terms of increased political participation

Why G&L?

In G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky, the town of Monheim am Rhein found a provider that optimally fulfilled their criteria for expanding their web offering to include live streaming and was able to take responsibility as a full-service provider, as well as having experience in the public sector.

An individual package of bundled technical and service-oriented services was to ensure the high quality of the live streaming. From a technical point of view, very low latencies in the video transmission between recording and streaming were just as important as the immediate availability of the recorded sessions on the website under www.monheim.de. G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky was able to offer the town of Monheim am Rhein a customised service package that successfully combined all requirements.

Video production on-site:

• 3x pan-tilt-zoom cameras, remote control, 60 fps
• Video mixer
• Recording
• Feeder of crawling text and captions
• Point-to-point connection via SRT protocol

Video-Streaming:

• Encoding with 60 fps
• Akamai Media Services Live 4 mit Low Latency
• Akamai Token Authentication
• Akamai Media Analytics
• THEOplayer