“Automatic Safety Alerts on DAB+ mean lives will be saved,” IBC audience hears in WorldDAB conference session
New Automatic Safety Alerts (ASA) mean “lives will be saved as a result”, WorldDAB President Jacqueline Bierhorst said at the IBC Show in Amsterdam on Sunday. Bierhorst highlighted last week’s successful “Warntag” [warning day] tests in Germany, which featured the new ASA system via DAB+ for the first time. WorldDAB’s conference session at the annual content and technology show, which attracts over 45,000 delegates from 170 countries to the Netherlands, also heard from the Chair of its Technical Committee, Lindsay Cornell. He announced that the international ETSI specifications – the official standards underpinning the ASA system - have now been approved and published, marking the successful completion of the technical work.
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