IABM Announces Design & Innovation Award Winners

IABM has announced the winners of its 2015 Design & Innovation Awards at IBC in Amsterdam, honouring broadcast and media industry talent.

This year's industry accolades, which recognise products that offer significant solutions or new opportunities to the broadcast and media industry, were awarded at a special ceremony held during IBC2015, at the Emerald Lounge, RAI Amsterdam.

The winners were selected across each of the nine IABM Design & Innovation Awards categories, which reflect the breadth of the broadcast industry pipeline, from acquisition of content to playout and delivery. The winning entries include hardware, software, system and service solutions, and innovative technology based service offerings, which were assessed on their perceived impact to the industry in terms of end user benefit, value for money, innovation, implementation, performance or new opportunities created.

The winners are:

Acquisition and production
• Suitcase TV – Iphrame Remote

Post production
• Marquis Broadcast – Edit Bridge

Content and communication Infrastructure
• EVS – SEA Games TV app

Audio
• AATON - Digital – CantarX3 on location audio recorder

Storage
• Ericsson Inc – Video Storage and Processing Platform

System automation and control
• Net Insight AB – Customer Provisioned Networks

Playout and delivery systems
• Harmonic – Harmonic Spectrum™ X Media Server System

Test, quality control and Monitoring
• Volicon – Observer OTT Service Monitoring Solution

Services
• Conax – Conax GO Live™

In addition to the nine winners, the judges also recognised one application that applied to several categories and was hailed as "a great example of collaboration".

The Special Recognition Award was awarded to VRT and all the collaborators for the Live IP Project, which included a group of broadcast technology partners, IABM members and the EBU.

Peter White, Chief Executive, IABM, said: "The competition was particularly strong this year and we would like to congratulate all of the winners on their success. We were delighted to receive such an exceptionally high standard and number of entries, it really does underline the outstanding level of creativity and innovation in our industry today. The judging task was not easy and we are delighted to finally announce these worthy winners."

Image: John Ive, IABM, Director of Technology and Strategic Insight.

www.theiabm.org/designawards

(JP/CD)