Implementación de un laboratorio de televisión digital que cumpla el estándar ISD-TB

Abstract

In our country, the digital terrestrial television is now in a first stage of implementation. One of its main benefits is allow the interaction of the viewer with the television stations in order to collaborate in the improvement and implementation of new services.

This thesis project implements a digital television laboratory that allows the development of interactive applications, which is used as a platform for the central objective that is to develop an application for capturing the information of the channels and programs that a viewer sees in a period of time, in order to use this information in the future to predict the behavior of the viewer.

The digital television laboratory has an infrastructure that supports the development of interactive applications and the codification and transmission of digital television content, which constitutes the first stage of this work. In the second stage, we designed and implemented an interactive application that works in the Ginga-NCL/LUA platform, a server of interactive applications and a database server MySQL for the storage of the information generated for the viewers.

As a result of this project, the University of Cuenca now has a functional digital television laboratory and an interactive application that allows capturing the activity of the user and storing it in a database. In future work, this information could be used to recommend programs that fit the preferences of the viewer. Moreover, you can obtain statistics of the age and gender of a viewer that sees a specific program for future analysis. Lastly, the development of this project motivates the faculty and the students of the Department of Engineering to develop new applications and to do research in the field of digital television.