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Isuma’s Media Players: Edge computing for remote Inuit communities
Friday, November 8, 2019
Over the last 12 years, Isuma’s Media Player technology has brought high quality indigenous language videos to remote, low-bandwidth Inuit communities in Nunavut, the territory in the Canadian arctic where we are based.
We launched IsumaTV in 2007 as an indigenous language video streaming platform. Yet soon after we realized that the majority of the Inuit were unable to watch IsumaTV through the cloud, due to the fact that Inuit communities have one of the most expensive and slow internet connections in the world. We were pushed to find a way for Inuit to access the Inuktitut language videos on IsumaTV.
We came up with the idea of our Media Players, an edge computing network that gives remote communities access to their videos and films by locally hosting the entire content of IsumaTV (now 8,000 videos in more than 70 languages). The media players gradually synchronize and transcode new videos, audio, images and other large files to and from the central website as they are uploaded.
We have since installed Media Players in more than 15 indigenous communities. Many of these communities have used them as a repository of Inuit content in their libraries, schools, and local television stations.
Session Type30-Minute Session (Presentation or Case Study)
TrackSystems
Key Outcomes
After attending this session, participants will learn how our Media Players and edge computing can make multimedia archives engaging and accessible for remote, low-bandwidth communities.
Speaker: David Ertel, Developer, Isuma
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By MCN (Museum Computer Network)Friday, November 8, 2019
Over the last 12 years, Isuma’s Media Player technology has brought high quality indigenous language videos to remote, low-bandwidth Inuit communities in Nunavut, the territory in the Canadian arctic where we are based.
We launched IsumaTV in 2007 as an indigenous language video streaming platform. Yet soon after we realized that the majority of the Inuit were unable to watch IsumaTV through the cloud, due to the fact that Inuit communities have one of the most expensive and slow internet connections in the world. We were pushed to find a way for Inuit to access the Inuktitut language videos on IsumaTV.
We came up with the idea of our Media Players, an edge computing network that gives remote communities access to their videos and films by locally hosting the entire content of IsumaTV (now 8,000 videos in more than 70 languages). The media players gradually synchronize and transcode new videos, audio, images and other large files to and from the central website as they are uploaded.
We have since installed Media Players in more than 15 indigenous communities. Many of these communities have used them as a repository of Inuit content in their libraries, schools, and local television stations.
Session Type30-Minute Session (Presentation or Case Study)
TrackSystems
Key Outcomes
After attending this session, participants will learn how our Media Players and edge computing can make multimedia archives engaging and accessible for remote, low-bandwidth communities.
Speaker: David Ertel, Developer, Isuma