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ndrew Fountain’s deep knowledge of Dejero
equipment and technology made him the ideal choice to bring it to the annual Tour de Delta in British Columbia. “SW Event Technologies brought me in as their wireless technician essentially to supply and operate all the Dejero mobile transmission equipment,” begins Andrew. “They’d never used the Dejero equipment before, but had used another hardware provider in the past which wasn’t very successful. “This past season we used Dejero for two different events, next year they want to use it for many more. It’s typical use for the bike race is for the camera guys on the motorcycles. Having camera guys who are 10km down the track to give you full course coverage is great. It’s a live event to the sponsors and various Facebook pages and there is a package made for TV as well. The Dejero equipment provides live coverage for the webcast and also the key elements for the live venue playback for the spectators watching on huge Jumbotrons, so you can see the peloton 10km away from the finishing line.
THE DEJERO EQUIPMENT PROVIDES LIVE COVERAGE FOR THE WEBCAST
BOTTOM The Dejero EnGo camera- mounted for use on motorbikes. Technologies used Dejero for this year. TOP The finish line of the Delta Road Race – one of two events that SW
“This season we had three units out, two on motorbikes and one in a pace car,” continues Andrew. “The plan for next year is similar, but we’re going to add more Dejero units at fixed positions along the course so we’re talking about a multicam live broadcast from start to finish. SW has a big OB truck and we had three Dejero Transceivers in there receiving the wireless feeds from the motorbikes and the Transceivers feed the live signal into our video switchers so we can cut live to them. “We have the Dejero EnGo camera- mount or backpack units on the motorbikes; this pack V locks in to your battery plate on the camera. Then there are the Transceivers in the truck which are able to receive one signal and send one signal whether it’s coming in from an EnGo or from the Dejero Cloud Server or wherever. So you could be receiving the EnGo signal that is outbound from the race and that same rack unit would output that to your video switcher.” Andrew is usually back in the truck monitoring the gear, making sure
the signal strength is good and just servicing the camera guys when they fly by for a new battery or something like that. “Once it’s up and going it’s pretty self-sufficient and once you know you have signal coverage after a couple of laps there’s really not much more to do.” The EnGo has six SIM slots (or four on the Canadian version). In Canada there are three main telcos so each has one SIM card. They leverage the best signal strength from different cellular networks at the same time. DEJERO CELLSAT Andrew shoots a couple of events a year that are very remote in the sense that they’re completely off the grid; there’s no cell coverage, no power, nothing. “In those environments we would traditionally set up a Ku-band Flyaway sat dish and do the classic uplink/downlink scenario. With Dejero’s new satellite technology, which combines cellular connectivity from multiple mobile network carriers with Ku-band IP connectivity provided by Intelsat, I will be able to
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