Who is using DAB for industrial applications?

Find below an excerpt of current industrial DAB applications. Most of them have been launched some longer time ago. All of them are successfully operating right now whilst you are reading these lines.


Example: DAB for public transportation

  Example: DAB for public transportation

'Infotainment' and passenger information
in public transportation.
Advantage: Convenient, mid- to broadband
carrier to the fleet.
Actually being used at Berlin, Potsdam, 
Munich and in Scandinavia.
Dynamic passenger information at stops,
displaying arrival times and delays.
Advantage: Easily setting up displays,
no digging up the earth to lay data cables.
Actually being used at Nuremberg
and Innsbruck.
Example: DAB to carry Differential GPS

  Example: DAB for parking information

Differential GPS / RTK to enable land survey
and realtime positioning up to the 
centimeters range.
Advantage: No user fee, reliably covering
the entire country.
Actually being used in Belgium
(WALCORS network).
Parking space information.
Advantage: no wires, easy setup,
easily broadcasting to a group of
receivers.
Actually being used in Belgium
(city of Brussels).
Example: DAB for SAR applications

  Example: DAB for outdoor displays

SAR / Disaster relief.
Advantage: Broadband access to the 
rescue team in order to supply
detailed action information.
Experimental services in
Germany and Switzerland.
Updating outdoor displays.
Advantage: no wires, easy setup,
broadcasting to a group or to individual
displays, very economic carrier.
Actually under development (Germany).
Example: DAB for TV streaming



Streaming TV signals to
cable control centers.
Advantage: using DAB is
the cheapest alternative.
Actually being used in
Eastern Germany.

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